Nischo as a booking agency is focused on export the best of the Portuguese jazz.
Lisbon-based record label and booking agency and home to the most exciting of Portuguese jazz and improvised music. Nischo represents a unique mix of artists detached from fixed genres, including vocalist and composer Sara Serpa, accordionist Joao Barradas, percussionist Iúri Oliveira, vibraphonist Eduardo Cardinho or drummer and composer Pedro Melo Alves - all critically acclaimed in their own right.
Derived from the word niche, it might describe a recess to find shelter or a lifestyle with unique conditions and needs to grow and flourish from an ecological point of view, or even a segment still little explored in an economic market. The word niche is easy to find, with slight nuances, in so many European languages echoes the international radius and European context that Nischo pretends to set as its sphere of activity.
Nischo aspires to represent an artistic movement, including a new generation of Portuguese musicians, that want to be in touch with other artists with the same visions. As a company founded on multiculturalism, Nischo wants to pay close attention to aspects of gender and equality in order to be part of new solutions both in the musical and in the social sphere.
Since 2019, Nischo has been designing projects focused on sonic environments. This year, the documentary The Sound of Lisbon will premiere, exploring the role of sound in urban life. We are also collaborating with other European cities to develop a network for the recomposition of the sonic world and for the deacceleration the collective life. Nischo works on sonic inclusion and reverberation spaces with communities and private companies, designing architectural and sound art projects for innovative institutions and music festivals, and develops programs on well-being and mental health through music, arts and sonic environments.
