È trascorso circa un mese da quando, in questo stesso spazio, lodavamo la vitalità dei musicisti e delle etichette portoghesi. Proporre nuovamente come disco top, a così breve distanza di tempo, un altro frutto proveniente dall’estrema propaggine atlantica del continente rappresenta la conferma di un entusiasmo tutt’altro che passeggero. Volendo iniziare con qualche osservazione generale, …
Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais
“v3†reviewed by Vital
All of these pieces were recorded in concerts in Palmela, London and Huddersfield and see them performing their improvised music played on laptops being extended by some guest players such as drummer Andy Gangadeen, guitarist Manual Mota, Joao Hora and Vitor Joaquim. On paper it might sound like an odd combination, guitar improvisations with laptop …
“v3†reviewed by Blitz
(…) à terceira faixa chega-se ao terrreno que s @c melhor dominam, o da disseminação de elementos rÃtmicos, onde a incisão é mais notória. A partir de então entra-se nos eixos, a trote de aço, com samples ocasionais a fazerem as vezes de estações. Não adianta procurar janelas porque a devolução é certa, as paisagens …
“Product 02†reviewed by Paris Transatlantic
The disc contains two works, “Tropical Agent”, a nine-movement composition, and “Ears In Water”, separated by thirty seconds of “Product Silence”. There’s something smooth and seductive about Slavin’s work, which manages obliquely to reference ambient techno – the terraced mix, the nearly regular click backbeat, the lush string carpet (check out “Search for Compassion”) – …
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“Further Consequences of Reinterpretation†reviewed by Vital
To describe what led to this CD is not an easy task. It started with the artist *0 (Nosei Sakata) who invited a bunch of people to remix his CD ‘O.000’ (which delt in many ways with silence, or at least sounds outside the hearing range) and among them was Marc Behrens. After the results …
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“Product 02†reviewed by Rui Eduardo Paes
Melhor sucesso tem o «Product» que reúne duas facetas bem distintas de um mesmo músico, Ran Slavin, tratadas, devido até à natureza da colecção, como se de dois criadores se tratasse. Se o Slavin da primeira metade, «Tropical Dance», passa por um conceito do “sampling†devedor das manipulações bem-humoradas e joviais de Carl Stone, o …
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“Product 02†reviewed by Etherreal
L’album est donc divisé en deux parties, toutes les deux à peu près sur le même ton, tandis que c’est la construction des morceaux qui change un peu. La première partie, Tropical Agent, composée de neuf morceaux, propose autant de variations sur des boucles acoustiques complètement retravaillées au laptop, afin de les rendre plus fragiles, …
“Further Consequences of Reinterpretation†reviewed by Funprox
Like its title suggests it is a further interpretation and reworking of a work called “0.000” that was once released by Japanese artist Nosei Sakata (perhaps better known as *0). The original work of Sakata contained no audible sounds, and was therefore ideally open for interpretation. The work was “remixed” and reworked by a score …
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“Product 02†reviewed by Vital
experimental bands and now does audio-visual work. He works with computer processed sound and field recordings. Much to my surprise, the main instrument being fed into the computer is the guitar, which is rather joyfully being processed in the first work ‘Tropical Agent’, which are nine tracks in total. In a strange the music is …
“Product 02†reviewed by Blitz
Aqui, a primeira parte é ocupada com “Tropical Agent”, tÃtulo que nos remete logo para os campos do romance policial. O resto da sugestão é dado pelos tÃtulos dos temas, tais como “Silent Siren”, “Guitar String / Empty Streets”, “Flat tire at the dead sea” ou “Triggers of Violence”. Escutados, são registos bem menos lineares …