David Maranha

Musician, Composer, Architect

A musician, composer, and architect, David Maranha began his musical career in 1986, working both as a solo artist and as a member of various bands; he has since released over 30 albums. In 1989, he founded Osso Exótico, a Portuguese experimental music collective, and his work is characterized by its minimalist electroacoustic approach. He has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including Z’EV, Emmanuel Holterbach, Helena Espvall, Phill Niblock, David Grubbs, Akio Suzuki, Will Guthrie, Stephan Mathieu, Andrea Belfi, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Jochen Arbeit, Minit, Pete Simonelli, Arnold Dreyblatt, Jacob Kirkegaard, Carla Bozulich, Chris Cutler, Werner Durand, Robert Rutman, Ben Frost, and Helge Sten, among others. For this edition of LEFFEST, he joins saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, playing percussion, to provide a live musical accompaniment for Luis Buñuel’s The Golden Age (1930).

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