The music itself, totally instrumental, has as starting engine a rediscovery of the traditional roots, of the Celtic influences and how those influences have been slowly digested and absorbed by an Iberian culture with almost 900 years of independency.
Circling around that musing nucleus, Gnomon were capable, in sublime way, to introduce subtle traces of other genres. Some equally ethnic, such as those that bring us closer to more southern and Mediterranean landscapes, and others that are out of the Folk context, such as the intrusion of jazzy elements or the clearly progressive way the instruments are distributed and interact during the performance of the music.
While denoting a healthy and exemplary constructed interaction between the various used instruments, the band makes them stand in the front of the stage, like stepping out of the “orchestra” and into the spotlight. This dynamic ends up being one of the strongholds of the band: knowing how to use and conjugate the individualities while always maintaining a stronger focus on the sum of the parts.
The result is beautiful, inventive and without a doubt highly captivating. It proportionate us musical moments of an extreme richness, at the same time as it evokes us to the discovery of our roots as a Country and as a Culture, making us remember how rich and fascinating that culture is.

With an instrumental savvy close to that of Trape Zape, a Folk essence like Amarok or (the early works of) Rão Kyao, an ambiental concept that has been sometimes achieved by Francis and a spirit clearly molded by the rediscovery of our traditional Portuguese music like Fausto Bordalo Dias, Gnomon bring us news from this Country that is ours (mine at least….) and remind us about the true Lusitanian soul. All this in a refreshing format that is, I repeat, profoundly inspiring and enjoyable!