SIRIUS

[Yaw Tembé & Monsieur Trinité]

Yaw Tembé is a musician (trumpet, percussion, etc), sculptor, poet and street artist. Born on Swaziland in the late eighties, but settled in Lisbon, he is one of the city’s most promising up and coming creative artists, bent on a thorough process of self-knowledge and fully committed to finding his individual voice, as the many and regular encounters with a myriad of Portuguese musicians and improvisers in the past few years can attest. Sirius, his duo with percussionist Monsieur Trinité (Francisco Trindade, who we’ve seen at OUT.FEST as part of the Variable Geometry Orchestra in 2007), is probably the most visible part of this work: bearing echoes of great names who through the processing of the trumpet paved way to its sonic expansion (Jon Hassell comes to mind) and reminiscences of beginning of the millennium north-American communal improvisation and the great kosmische names of the seventies, Sirius’ music, fully improvised, possesses since its early inception a strong sense of identity and subtle complexity, which the future will certainly confirm.