Pedro Velasco - Divagar Devagar (2023)

Divagar Devagar features the intimate and immersive genre-fluid contemporary jazz by the celebrated guitarist Pedro Velasco. Divagar Devagar is the Portuguese guitarist’s debut solo album of his own material.

On this hauntingly brilliant and deeply personal album, Pedro Velasco steps out of time, into the fathomless realms of memory, divining and picking out shapes and compositions which speak of musics, hybrids as yet unborn.

The glimmering ebb and throb of Velasco’s guitars are occasionally reminiscent of the sound-world created by Jan Garbarek, whilst elsewhere there are other oblique reminders - of The Durutti Column, of Jimi Hendrix’s searing hot searchings, of Stockhausen’s Kontake, or the dark, slap-delay and solitary human blues of John Fahey’s, Red Cross.

Overwhelmingly, however, Divagar Devagar is a thing of limpid, insistent beauty, its melancholic melodies dropping like black petals into night waters. It enfolds and entrances; it takes you to places you will want to revisit time and again.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Pedro Velasco - Canção Do Vidoeiro (3:21)
1.02 - Pedro Velasco - Oficina de Sonhos (2:18)
1.03 - Pedro Velasco - Nos Entretantos do Silêncio (2:35)
1.04 - Pedro Velasco - Divagar Devagar (1:30)
1.05 - Pedro Velasco - Rabiscos (2:07)
1.06 - Pedro Velasco - Filominor (2:35)
1.07 - Pedro Velasco - Pipa d'Água (1:32)
1.08 - Pedro Velasco - O Armário do Tio Paulo (2:08)
1.09 - Pedro Velasco - Molas e Carrinhos (1:20)
1.10 - Pedro Velasco - Memórias a Verde e Branco (3:15)
1.11 - Pedro Velasco - O Almirante Com Vista Para o Rio (0:54)
1.12 - Pedro Velasco - Álbum de Retratos (1:34)
1.13 - Pedro Velasco - Valsa Destes Tempos (2:08)
1.14 - Pedro Velasco - Merda Prá Bolinha (1:08)
1.15 - Pedro Velasco - A História Do Miúdo Que Era Porteiro (2:01)
1.16 - Pedro Velasco - Casa de Lençóis (1:02)
1.17 - Pedro Velasco - Conversas de Café (1:30)
1.18 - Pedro Velasco - O Tigre Que Comeu o Pão do Paulo (1:29)
1.19 - Pedro Velasco - Filó, Eduarda E O Periquito - Conto De Outros Tempos (2:03)