LA VOKO

LA VOKO is Tutomonda's second release and AŬSKULTI's first work, and it features João Svayam (concept, several instruments, real-time composition), Nuno Mangas-Viegas (artwork, concept, titles and liner notes), Jörg Stohwasser (soprano and tenor saxophones) and Steve Coombes (soprano saxofone). In Nuno's words:

La Voko is an album that wants to tell us a story, or rather, it wants to tell us about an impetus that, day after day, expresses its glory by carrying our bodies to those who love us and want us close.
Because, in fact, 'there's no such thing as too much' as long as there is a voice that, however softly, calls us and guides us through the asphalt of the days back home.
La Voko, then, is an album that takes us by the hand, along unexpected and challenging paths, back home. It's a call that, step after step, day after night, saves us.
The plurality of instruments and their geographical origins, the diversity of temperatures in each composition, leads us to an idea of globality, of unity in difference. These characteristics are also expressed in some of the song titles (no. 2, 3, 4 and 6), written in Esperanto, a congregating and unifying language.

released January 29, 2025
João Svayam - concept, several instruments, real-time composition
Jörg Stohwasser - saxophones
Steve Coombes - soprano saxophone
Nuno Manas-Viegas - artwork, concept, titles and liner notes