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Victor Gama with musician/dancer Antonio Tavares playing acrux, one of Pangeia Instrumentos created and produced by Gama. Pangeia Instrumentos are musical instruments built as part of a writting process that Victor Gama has been developed over the last 15 years. Inspired by the traditional musical instruments from Angola, where he was born and still works part of the year, Victor Gama developed new musical instruments as a way of reaching new territories in music and sound. Often also playing with electronic musicians such as Tiago Cerqueira, Gama collaborates with William Parker and Guillermo E. Brown on the Folk Songs Trio. Upcoming concerts in Europe, 29th July 2007, Glat&Verkehrt Festival in Austria. VICTOR GAMA: Victor Gama was born in Angola and currently lives in Sintra, Portugal. He is a composer, performer, designer of innovative musical instruments as well as an electronics engineer. Several of his music works have been recorded on CD including Pangeia Instrumentos on Aphex Twin’s Rephlex Records. He has exhibited his instruments and sound installations and performed extensively in Africa, Latin America, USA, Canada and Europe having received a Project Development Award by Visiting Arts/British Council for his exhibition and performance at Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast in 2004. Gama is part of the “Berimbau-Ungu” project with the legendary Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos with whom he has recently toured in Southern Africa. He’s collaborated recently …