Gabriel Moraes is a Brazilian jazz drummer, born in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais. A self-taught musician, he began his musical journey playing drums at church. At the age of 13, Gabriel moved to Portugal, where he was first introduced to jazz at 15, a genre that would deeply shape his career.

Giotis Damianidis’s Punk Kong is coming back after a golden silence of six years with undoubtedly their most complete work in terms of composition, arrangement and execution. The bass-less ensemble offers a perfect blend of Free Jazz, Psychedelic Rock, dreamy Drone Blues music that flows over as a clean transparent river into the mountains! Their Third album, “Same but Different” is coming out in October 2024 on the Belgian almighty Label, WERF records! Worth mentioning that part of the album is the original score of the film of Italian director Davide Belotti, “Vita Altra” composed by Giotis Damianidis.

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"The music speaks for itself", said John Coltrane.

The new Ola Tunji quintet is moving in this direction, where musical interplay becomes a powerful and expressive whole.

Its members started playing together before summer 2023 and then united in the passion that each feels towards the spiritual and musical life of Coltrane. A path to follow seemed to form itself, like a vision shared through every feeling. What they play bring them back to a deeper humanity in the music.

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