- artist:Júlio Resende (Portugal)
- event type:WOMEX 22 Opening Artist
- date:19 Oct 2022
- time:20:00 - 21:30
- city/area:Lisbon
- venue:Theatre Stage
- country:Portugal
- event posted by:Piranha Arts
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Pianist, composer, improviser, Júlio Resende has, over the course of nine album releases and numerous international performances, created a high profile for himself on the wider contemporary jazz scene. He's also created a new genre of fado jazz. After his first three projects in jazz trio and quartet settings, he turned to imaginative reinventions of songs of the great fado diva, Amália Rodrigues, for his 2013 release, Amália por Júlio Resende, a path further explored in ensemble format with Portuguese guitar added to his jazz trio on his latest two albums. In-between, he has experimented with electro-beats and rap on Cinderella Cyborg (2018) and spoken poetry on Poesia Homónima (2016), while his 2017 project with singer Salvador Sobrano, Alexander Search, places the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa's English language poems in an original indie-rock-jazz setting.