Lacrau is the first U.S. release of music featuring the legendary Portuguese guitarist Manuel Mota's mysterious, uncompromising, resolutely personal approach to the instrument. Lacrau captures the ambience of a warm Sunday afternoon in late fall in Lisbon when longtime friends Mota and David Grubbs sat down for this waking dream of a first duo performance. These explorations are as apt to find emotional weight in the solitary note in all it's fret-buzzing glory as they are in unexpected turns of phrase briefly referencing blues and jazz.