Vasco Trilla Gomes Dos Santos

Baterista con una amplia experiencia internacional.
miembro de grupos com Fine! Filthy Habits Ensemble, October Equus, Mars Williams, Jamalaaden Tacuma.
con unos 100 discos editados y presentaciones en mas de 30 paises.
esto es lo que dicen sobre mi;

Vasco Trilla is a masterful visionary sonic alchemist, a sound painter of subtlety and grace. His work has a great capacity for stillness and space, qualities both rare and much needed in these chaotic overstimulated times. These are healing deep breath percussive meditations channeled by Señor Trilla direct from Spirit as a blessing for mind and soul.
Ra Kalam Bob Moses

The Weeping Meadow( Confront Recordings)

I discovered Vasco Trilla’s work while at Iztok Zupan’s studio in Slovenia. Iztok played me a CD of Vasco’s music he had recorded and produced. It was a surprising discovery: finally, something different in the landscape of improvised percussion.
I was one of the first solo percussion improvisers (I began in the 1970s), so I paid special attention to Vasco’s work. This new music is in the same realm as the old recordings but with a fresh blossoming of ideas and sounds.
Vasco is a minimalist in percussion: each sound is carefully chosen and explored to a limit. He creates a world of larger horizons and open skies where percussion triggers the intensest feelings in the listener.
Andrea Centazzo

Casa Murada ///Andrea Centazzo-Vasco Trilla (Ictus Records)

In the past couple of years I got in touch with a very talented and original percussion player form Barcelona, Spain. Half Portuguese and half Spanish, Vasco is one of those musicians of a new generation , bringing the torch of percussion innovation to the future.
When he invited me for a recording session I had not doubt that something original and interesting could come out from this multigenerational encounter.
And that it was.
We found immediately a common language based on our instrumentation and the perennial desire to break the rules.
I found myself in the same situation of many other great percussion meeting I got in the past with Tony Oxley, Andrew Cyrille, Barry Altschul, Pierre Favre, and many more but now I was the old savior and Vasco was the young enthusiast.
This is the result of those fortunate days: we hope that you will enjoy listening as we truly enjoyed playing.
Andrea Centazzo



The Torch In My Ear (Klopotec records)

Elias Canetti, whose memoir The Torch in My Ear lit the flame for Vasco Trilla’s latest solo work, wrote elsewhere that “every completely unknown language is a kind of acoustic mask; as soon as one learns it, it becomes a face, understandable and soon familiar.” Like many improvisations, these solo works may seem like masks at first: inscrutable fronts that conceal the “ferment of the as yet unclear and uncompleted metamorphoses” that are expressed beneath. The music in these three performances seems self-generating, like languages invented as they are first being spoken. There’s a feeling of inevitability in the way each proceeds from a slight origin, unfolding chains of cause and effect, blossoming and branching outgrowths of sound whose beauty we can admire but whose secret meaning we fear we’ll never comprehend. But make no mistake: they are ferments of the masterful Trilla, fruits of a musical intellect that becomes more assured with each solo release, his performances growing broader in timbre and longer in time. To sit with this music, to settle into its rhythms and learn its inflections, is to become familiar with what is unfamiliar, to decipher the language, to see the mask soften into a face.
Dan Sorrells


The Rainbow Serpent (FMR records)

Vasco is really one of the modern masters of a new ‘free sound approach’ to drum set and percussion. Defying the accepted conventions of speed, and ‘flashy’ drum set playing, he makes an incredible musical statement , taking us through a myriad of tones and emotions along a varied and tonally hybrid journey.
Pete Lockett