Margarida Garcia
She is a musician and a visual artist based in Lisbon. Garcia works around links between sound, video and drawing. She uses the double bass as her main instrument. Recent collaborations include Chris Corsano, Loren Connors, Marcia Bassett, Helena Espvall, Manuel Mota, David Maranha, Gabriel Ferrandini and Barry Weisblat. Also worked with Eddie Prévost, John Tilbury, Nöel Akchoté, Matt Valentine, Erica Elder, David Keenan, Alex Neilson, Mattin, Otomo Yoshihide and Oren Ambarchi.
She is a musician and a visual artist based in Lisbon. Garcia works around links between sound, video and drawing. She uses the double bass as her main instrument. Recent collaborations include Chris Corsano, Loren Connors, Marcia Bassett, Helena Espvall, Manuel Mota, David Maranha, Gabriel Ferrandini and Barry Weisblat. Also worked with Eddie Prévost, John Tilbury, Nöel Akchoté, Matt Valentine, Erica Elder, David Keenan, Alex Neilson, Mattin, Otomo Yoshihide and Oren Ambarchi.
Domestic Scene
"Bassist Margarida Garcia and guitarist Manuel Mota are two of the best known string wielders from Lisbon's active improvising community. Both players work the edges of sound and form in ways that don't fit neatly into any genre category, while creat…
Glimpses Of The Inner Firmament (Book)
* Limited Edition of 50 Copies ** Signed*Very nice artists' book by Margarida Garcia. Limited edition of 50 copies. Signed and numbered.
Survival of Laments
* Edition of 150 * Two long compositions performed by Marcia Bassett and Manuel Mota on Guitar and Margarida Garcia on Bass, capturing a dark, metallic, almost reverberating atmosphere that we imagine in a cistern, a contained and often claustrophobi…
Der Bau
Margarida Garcia developed since the 90s a simple, melodious, slow and melancholic language for electric contrabass. She moves well beyond contemporary improv praxis with a coil that runs deep into the contemporary psychedelic underground. She worked…
Earth Rundown
Slowly evolving daydreams of electric guitar shrouded in lo-fi reverb by Margarida Garcia and Manuel Mota. Dark, quiet and mysterious superimpositions floating and spiraling further and deeper in the distant hollow spaces of the void. Artwork by M…
The Rust Within Their Throats
*LP limited edition of 299 copies* Thurston Moore, electric guitar. Margarida Garcia, electric double bass. 'With Sonic Youth on hold, Thurston Moore has time to venture out into the world of improvised music and plays around a lot. The instruments a…
The Leaden Echo
Portugese bassist Margarida Garcia remains one of the most distinctive improvising voices on her instrument even as she moves well beyond contemporary improv praxis with an umbilical that runs deep into the contemporary psychedelic underground. Th…