For the the eleventh volume of FRKWYS, an unrestricted series pairing contemporary artists with their influential predecessors, gifted guitar squire Steve Gunn meets roving, radiating legend Mike Cooper in Lisbon, Portugal.

A tranquil interlude for these two travellers to create off-guard improvisations in their shared style of deconstructed guitar music, "Cantos de Lisboa" is a curious detail in the periphery of their snapshot of Portugal.

On "Cantos de Lisboa", Gunn and Cooper take emotive cues from Fado, the regional music of Portugal, which is in close plaintive spirit to the blues.

A melancholy seeps into the music, while steering a wide berth from any bummer notes or pastiche.

Cooper's sparse effects toolkit and stately, gliding cadences are nimbly employed, while Gunn's ashen voice and steady strum lend an intensely organic feel to the album's improvisatory portraits.

In the hands of these two limitless guitarists, "Cantos de Lisboa" convenes in an abstract, almost field recorded take on lap-steel and American Primitive guitar styles.

For the brief idyll, Gunn and Cooper's collaboration is remarkably rich, marking their passage through Portugal not just as a time to revel in an ancient city, but a time for focused collaboration and creative consonance.