Miguel Falcão (miguelbass)

Lulas Belhas @ Lisboa 2012-01-18 (review + photos)

Miguel Falcão — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:53:20 +0000

Some really nice photos and a review from the entire show can be found at “arte-factos” website.

It was fun – we did have a great time despite all the usual “stresses”. Thanks for your support!

Lulas Belhas @ Lisboa 2012-01-18

Miguel Falcão — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:57:49 +0000

On January 18, I will play with Lulas Belhas in Lisboa, at the Santiago Alquimista, opening for Swedish act “No fun At All”.

It Will Be a Good Day (BASS AUDIO)

Miguel Falcão — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:15:35 +0000

It will be a good 2012! Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. Miguel

Happy 40th Birthday “Fragile” – Long Distance Runaround – BASS AUDIO

Miguel Falcão — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:48:17 +0000

For professional reasons I have had little time to make a brand new clip, so I recycled an old bassline recording of mine. November is coming – Happy 40th birthday “Fragile”!!

Fly from Here (Overture, Pt I – We Can Fly)

Miguel Falcão — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:11:30 +0000

Celebrating the NEW YES ALBUM IN 2011!! *** now available worldwide ***

Release, Release – BASS AUDIO

Miguel Falcão — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:47:34 +0000

When I started to listen Yes from the 70′s, my friend lent me Tormato – he thought that it would be a nice mid term to start with…
That was when I started to appreciate some Yessongs. I recorded the vinyl LP to a cassete… all of it? No… I didn’t care too much for 2 songs that were not so “beautiful” or “melodic”… indeed they seemed to me only noisy and disjointed. Those were “Release, Release” and “On the Silent Wings of Freedom” (would you believe?)…. So… perspective and tastes will always change – always irrationally – and while some songs we enjoy at first listen and start getting tired of them, others spend years before we start to like them, but once we get the picture – our own picture – it will stay forever.

This is an old recording from 2000 that I transformed into a video clip, because I’m short of time for now but I’d still like to make something for my own and for those of you who like to watch my videos.

YES transcriptions by Steve Glasgow

Miguel Falcão — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:38:31 +0000

Scottish musician Steve Glasgow has made incredible bass transcriptions from several artists, including YES.
Besides downloading the scores and tabs, you can read Steve’s in-depth analysis of the basslines, which are very interesting and show the dedication and valuable work of this fine musician.

Steve Glasgow – Going For The One

Steve Glasgow – Parallels

Steve’s website is also good looking and well organized. I strongly recommend a visit!

That, That Is (i)

Miguel Falcão — Sun, 01 May 2011 10:49:32 +0000

Panda Pompoir CD

Miguel Falcão — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:05:50 +0000

During the two last years I collaborated with Panda Pompoir, a band from Coimbra, my city. The CD was finally released. Most of the tracks are sung in Portuguese with a pseudo-Brazilian accent. I used the Fender Precision for the whole album, the Moog Taurus plugin in one track, as well as the some of keyboards and backing vocals. This CD, with the distinctive artwork of João Pombeiro is now available, so in case you’re interested just let me know. Thanks for listening!

Poetry and Musical Improvisation

Miguel Falcão — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:49:10 +0000

“A Cena do Ódio” (The Scene of Hatred), written by Almada Negreiros, gave birth to a meeting between improvised music and declamation, in the beautiful city of Peniche.
The text was divided in several sections which provided some guidelines for improvisation. It was a great pleasure for me to be part of this project – PREC (Projecto Ressonante Experimental Criativo)- which stands for (something like) Creative Experimental Resonant Project.

This concert also served as a promotion of the upcoming MIA 2011 (improvised music encounters) in the nearby village of Atouguia da Baleia, a festival that I had the honour of participating in its first edition, last year, having then posted some videos from it here and here.

Thank you to all these wonderful friend-musicians who invited me for this performance:

Paulo Ramos: declamation
Paulo Chagas: flute, oboe and alto sax
Fernando Simões: trombone
Paulo Duarte: guitar
João Pedro Viegas: clarinet and bass clarinet

Excerpt from the show: