Nuno Canavarro "Plux Quba" Org LP Moikai'98 Jim O’Rourke Mouse On Mars John Zorn
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NUNO CANAVARRO "Plux Quba" Original US LP release / Out of Print / Rare / Highly Collectible Moikai M01 US 1998
CONDITION: Vinyl is Mint (M), LIKE NEW, played once!!! Cover/Artwork/Sleeve are Near Mint minus (NM-), recently shrink wrapped, only flaw is faint beginnings of ring wear top front/back from being stored with a bunch of other records!!! _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Nuno Canavarro (born 15 November 1962) is a Portuguese composer. He studied architecture in Oporto. He learned to play piano at a very young age. Canavarro played keyboards in the early 80s with a moderately successful New Wave band called Street Kids, who at their peak opened for Tangerine Dream. Street kids disbanded in 1983. He also played with the famous Portuguese band, The Delfins, and with Carlos Maria Trindade.
Five years later, Canavarro released his first and only solo record. He titled this small masterpiece of electroacoustic composition Plux Quba. Plux Quba flew far under the radar at the time of its release, and it might have remained essentially unheard outside Portugal’s experimental music crowd had it not fallen into the hands of a few key people, including tireless Chicago musician Jim O’Rourke.
After a 40-minute train ride from Aächen, Christoph Heemann and Jim O'Rourke are sitting around with Jan St. Werner (Mouse On Mars), C-Schulz, Frank Dommert and George Odjik. Heemann has brought with him a strange obscure disc (what else?) from Portugal by some group called Plux Quba. Or is it the record? The label? Who knows, because no one here reads Portuguese, dummy! But what they do know when the needle hits the groove is that they've never heard anything like it. Attempts to cite reference points are soon given up, there are some similarities to Robert Ashley's later work, but even that is deceiving. It is simple, gentle, melodic, and yet completely alien. Yes, a few copies were bought in Köln that year, where the genesis of the new happening A-Musik scene is finally hitting fertile ground running. The only way these people could describe this music comes out slowly, as an influence on their own work, from Heemann's solo works to Jan's involvement in Microstoria and Mouse on Mars, yet the Plux Quba remains a little known enigma.O’Rourke started a record label called Moikai in 1998, and his first release was a reissue of Plux Quba, remixed and remastered by Portuguese guitarist and composer Rafael Toral.
If you stand back and consider Plux Quba objectively, it seems without precedent and years before its time. In short, the fact that this album was initially recorded in 1988 is nothing short of amazing. But so what? Obscurity and “being ahead of one’s time” don’t necessarily have anything to do with quality. These subjective characteristics are of interest to would-be musicologists and trainspotters, not to those squatting before their CD rack, searching the spines for something interesting to listen to on a Tuesday evening. Surely the most essential qualities of Plux Quba, are not its puzzling origins, startling originality or eerie prescience, but that it is warm, playful, pretty and endlessly listenable.
Nuno Canavarro has also composed music for Portuguese films including O Gotejar da Luz, 14 de Fevereiro (a 1 de Abril), and Janelas Verdes. He also produced a DVD about his father's experience in the Portuguese war and composed original music for the DVD, Elefante Dundum (2007). Recently he received Portuguese funds to make a movie called Casa da Montanha.
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