Free Speech by João Sousa & José Lencastre

released April 25, 2021

Free Speech Liner Notes

Yes.
You, me, the drums, and the saxophone.
The duo that dialogues. You and I who listen attentively to freedom and restraint.
Free Speech evokes freedom of expression. The confrontation, the agreement, the common
thread, the controlled chaos. This is the place you and I are going to travel. This is where
they traced our trip.
João Sousa and José Lencastre created a coherence of speech that hardly one of us will be
able to break. We enter a place that evokes fracturing subjects such as destruction and
death.
Before freedom, we have the revolution (which has nothing linear). It's bittersweet. We
continue: you and me. We are the audience of a world in which freedom is ambiguous
depending on the reality of each one of us. A record where the revolution is long until it
comes to a short freedom.
Freedom is like a short loop. So short that leads us to Cabo Delgado and Marielle, in the
relentless search for a quiet moment.
The journey between drums and saxophone intensifies. You and I: continue to breathe. We
are free.
We have the freedom to feel. You and me.
With the voices of João and José we seek free speech.

album credits

João Sousa - drums, flute, recording and mixing
José Lencastre - tenor and alto saxophones
Tiago Eira - master
Nuno Mangas Viegas - cover
Margarida Azevedo - liner notes
Recorded on March 26th 2021 at Estudantina de São Domingos de Rana