3,14 is a modal music trio formed by Efren López, Ciro Montanari and Jordi Prats. I had to honor of recording Persian santur in the track A.A.A.A.A.A.A. featuring also Afghan rubab and tabla.

Yeliz Bulgurcu is a musical saw player from Turkey. Even though we never met personally we admire each others work and decided to record a piece together, an instrumental version of a sufi hymn called Dervişlik Baştadır with words by Yunus Emre, a famous turkish poet from the 13th century.

We used musical saw, oud and an electric guitar played with an ebow for our arrangement, quite an unusual mix of instruments!

Pedram Javadzadeh is a good friend and an excellent musician from Tehran, Iran that I was fortunate to meet during my stay there.

Very often we spoke of doing something together and, while we can't meet personally, we opted for remote recording some ideas that can be later explored together. So in this occasion Pedram composed a short melody on persian santur that I acompayned with oud.

Cristina Bacelar is a well known portuguese singer songwriter. Also she was my first ever guitar teacher, which makes this collaboration even more interesting! As a portuguese musician I'm always curious to explore ways to adapt my instruments to the traditional music of Portugal.

Together we decided to write an original arrangement for a well known fado song and this was the result, which we recorded during a rehersal.

Hopefully this duo will continue beyond this short collaboration and bring new musical fruits to exixtence!

Najla Shami is a singer songwriter from Galiza, Spain. She invited me to record oud and santur parts in 2 songs from her latest album, "Ela Sabe a Sol".

It was a great pleasure to record these tracks, specially the oud parts in the title track which is acompanied by a great video!

If you are interested you can stream the full album in youtube here!

Raquel Cruces is a very active percussionist and singer from Brasil residing in Spain. She's always travelling across Europe teaching a number of interesting workshops.

When she visited my hometown Porto we had the oportunity of jamming a bit in my studio. I picked up my electroacustic hammered dulcimer and Raquel sang and played some percussion loops. Interesting stuff came out!

If you are interested in getting to know more of her work you can visit her youtube channel or her website at tamborbacano.wixsite.com/raquelcruces

Last year my friend Mauricio asked me to participate in the third full length release of his metal band Scarificare with a persian santur moment! Well, that's a chalenge one cannot deny so here is the result, in the later part of the song!

"Veer" is the new album that Ricardo de Noronha and Griselda Sanderson recorded in early 2017. Ricardo I know from old times and Griselda I had the pleasure to meet earlier this year in Porto.

I had the pleasure to compose an arrangement for one of Griselda's songs, "Kairos", on my hammered dulcimer. I really enjoy the mediterranean feeling of the melodies so it was quite natural for me to play them!

Even though we only had a few hours to record the five santur tracks on Dorahoag's "Silk Road" CD, I guess the results were pretty good.

One of my favorite tunes, here's Istanblue, the opening track of this album.

Back in the start of this decade, around 2010, there were very good jamming vibes in Porto! I used to hang out with the guys from this project, Capagrilos, my good friends, and we hit some nice melodies once in a while, in our jam sessions!

"Equinócio", which was recorded and released in they debut album, was composed in such a jamming manner!

This was just one of those occasions when music leads the way and there's nothing else to be done but to go along with it! I met Adam Gallina and Thea Soti at a folk festival in 2011, we got into a very cool group jam, and decided that we should record something! Some days later we were in the studio with nothing planned and we just went at it! A lot of material came out, "Dream" is a segment that the three of us identified with.

Very nice ambient dreamy song, I think persian santur works very well with hang drum! Check it out!