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Ut Queant Laxis 04:03
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Resonare Fibris 11:40
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Mira Gestorum 04:37
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Famuli Tuorum 05:25
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Solve Polluti 06:35
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Labii Reatum 08:29
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Sancte Iohannes 01:45

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disc 21 | 2018

The album “Hymn” was one of the last ones I recorded before becoming a father. It was January 2016, right at the beginning of the new year, just six months before Rafael was born. The recording (at ScratchBuilt) was one of those “late night” sessions, with the studio quiet and silent. Paulo Galão played clarinet and bass clarinet, Guilherme Rodrigues played cello, and I played a percussion kit. We had never played together just the three of us, and we never played together like this again. This meeting of three musicians on a cold winter night was crystallized, and it was a good thing. The recording is by John Klima, and the mixing and mastering (done between 2016 and 2018) are mine.
The album was released in November 2018, and the title (“Hymn”) refers to the hymn “Ut queant laxis”, a piece of Gregorian chant that is the origin of the nomenclature of musical notes, as we still practice it today. Each phrase of this hymn begins with a different note, always ascending (Ut/C, D, E, F, G, A). One possible translation of the Latin verses would be: “Let our voices/ resound purely/ recounting the miracles/ greater than life./ Let our tongues/ be generous in praises/ to you, Saint John the Baptist.”

[published March 25, 2023]

credits

released November 9, 2018

Paulo Galão — clarinet and bass clarinet
Guilherme Rodrigues — cello
Nuno Morão — percussion


Recorded at ScratchBuilt on 5th January 2016 by John Klima.
Mixed and mastered in 2018 by Nuno Morão at ScratchBuilt.

Cover image by Ian Stenhouse.
Studio photographs by Nuno Morão.
Graphic design by Carlos Santos.
Production by Ernesto Rodrigues.


"So that your servants may,
with loosened voices,
Resound the wonders of your deeds,
Clean the guilt from our stained lips,
O St. John."

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Nuno Morão Oeiras, Portugal

Músico e artista sonoro. Bateria, percussões, teclados e gravações-de-campo. Membro do colectivo OSSO. | Musician and sound artist. Drums, percussions, keyboards and field recordings. OSSO collective member.

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