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DANÇAS OCULTAS
Four accordions from the edge of Europe
"Danças Ocultas" are four young accordionsts from Agueda near
Porto who are among the most innovative and most exciting
representatives of contemporary Portuguese music. For some
years now they have been rising on the international world
music scene – with an apparently very simple concept:
quiet, lyrical, more or less traditional, with only four diatonic
accordions.
The quartet’s name has nothing to do with
esoteric spheres but means that Dancas Ocultas play music for
dances that still have to be invented. Famous Fado plays a
minor role, the band inspiration comes rather from traditional
village music, Tango Nuevo and the chamber music e.g. of the
Russian Terem Quartet. They neither indulge in virtuosity
competitions, nor do they play pure folk music. “Impressionistic
Folk” is maybe the best label for this timeless art
music: minimalist, profound sound paintings full of unexpected
turns and noble melancholy. Very special music – impossible
to escape its magnetism.
Line Up
Artur Fernandes – diatonic accordion
Francisco Miguel - diatonic accordion
Filipe Cal - diatonic accordion
Filipe Ricardo - diatonic accordion
Discography
2009 Tarab (Numerica)
2004 Pulsar (Magic Music)
2002 Travessa da Espera (L’Empreinte Digitale)
1998 Ar (EMI VC)
1996 Dancas Ocultas (EMI VC)
Sounds
 Tristes
Europeus (352 KB)
Primeira
Hora (352 KB)
Fantasia
(352 KB)
Video
Mondomix
Womex Video
Michal Shapiro's Blog Huffington Post
Pulsar (extracts of the recording sessions)
Press
"You walk into the darkened main concert hall and
suddenly, all that falls away, there are four men on stage,
and they are creating a space where you can relax, breath
and luxuriate in beautiful sounds.”"
Michal Shapiro on The Huffington Post, 2010
„Inventive and creative instrumental music by one
of Europe’s best art music ensembles. Highly recommended!“
CD Roots 2007
“Danças Ocultas are very special - the interaction
of these four accordionists is amazing. Their music is so
full of tension that you did not realise how the time goes
by. The music is excellently arranged and acts between very
slow bits, where only one accordion is playing - creating
an atmosphere of very loud silence - up to quite fast and
very lively pieces. It is not easy to describe their music
- you simply have to see them live to get an idea of what
they are doing (or at least you should listen to their CD...)
My personal highlight of the festival.”
Folkworld 2001
Website
www.dancasocultas.com
www.myspace.com/dancasocultas
Booking Contact
Sabina Schebrak, sabina@cultureworks.at
Booking worldwide except Portugal, Spain, Belgium, NL, UK, Greece.
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