ALBERTO BRAIDA, piano

WILBERT DE JOODE, bass

Alberto Braida and Wilbert de Joode started their collaboration in 2005.

Together they recorded the CD " reg erg" (RED TOUCAN records 9332).

"Action and interaction are at the crossroads when pianist Alberto Braida and bassist Wilbert de Joode get together. The two are improvisers of the first caliber, always looking for the new and different while acknowledging the root that is the take-off point...The understanding between de Joode and Braida gives the record the grain of a unique experience." -Jerry D'Souza-

The music of the duo sounds really original: it's powerful, visceral but also lyrical and full of details. It's a deep digging.

There's a short story that they like to use to describe their approach:

 " It was early in the morning when I woke up: it was my birthday. I knew that probably I would have received a gift that day and I was very excited. On the table I found a small package and I immediately went to open it very carefully. There was a red toy car inside and I started to play with it. It was great and I could compete in a race with my friends that already had a toy car. After a couple of days I gave a look through the small plastic window of my car: there were the wheel, seats, gear level...a lot of details that I hadn't noticed till then. I started to dismantle the car to "explore" inside it and when I finished, the small pieces of my toy were on the table. Many nice and interesting things, which I couldn't see before were now in front of me: small screws, mechanism and so on. From then on, my favorite game had been to discover new objects that I could build using the components of my red toy car ."

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