Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais

Monty Adkins’s “With Love. From an Invader.” reviewed by Ambient Blog

Shortly after his release as Skrika on Cryo Chamber, Monty Adkins treats us with a surprise release on Cronica that musically represents almost the opposite of Skrika’s ‘dark ambient’. 46 Minutes of field recordings, enhanced (I wanted to write ‘enlovelied’, but I guess that isn’t a word) by Adkins’s soundscapes that turn it into an otherworldly experience. The invader referred to here is the rhododendron tree which “was introduced …

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New release: Matilde Meireles’s “Life of a Potato”

We’re proud to present Matilde Meireles’s new release in Crónica, “Life of a Potato”, now available as a limited release tape, as a download, or stream. The potato has travelled a long way from its native lands in South America. The starchy tuber, brought to Europe by the Spanish in the late 1600s, slowly settled …

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Dan Powell’s “Four Walks at Old Chapel” reviewed by The Sound Projector

Brighton musician Dan Powell may be known to you as an improviser who performs as one half of The Static Memories and also occasionally with Paul Khimasia Morgan, but he’s here today with a slightly unusual field recording / musique concrète assemblage called Four Walks At Old Chapel (CRONICA 170-2021). He gathered field recordings at this Welsh location, as well …

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Matilde Meireles’s “Life of a Potato” reviewed by Beach Sloth

Matilde Meireles celebrates the surprisingly long journey of one of the world’s most beloved vegetables with “Life of a Potato”. For a field recording it is a rather stellar mixture of low-end and high-end sounds. Rather tactile every single element of the journey is magnified. No melody, no rhythm, this is a narrative that comes …

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Máquina Magnética reviewed by Music Map

Il Novecento musicale è stato il secolo che ha dato dignità ai rumori, integrandoli a fianco dei suoni. Più ci si è avvicinati al ventunesimo secolo, più il rumore ha rivelato le sue potenzialità, affrancate dall’artificio dell’intonazione, e concentrando i compositori sulla gestione di ritmi e poliritmie, nonché sull’elaborazione timbrica, i colori dei rumori. Oggi …

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Matilde Meireles’s “Life of a Potato” reviewed by African Paper

Die portugiesische Soundkünstlerin und Field Recording-Spezialistin Matilde Meireles bringt Ende des Monats ein Tape heraus, das ganz dem Lebenszyklus der Kartoffel gewidmet ist. Einige der verwendeten Sounds dokumentieren das Heranwachsen der Knollen im Boden eines englischen Gartens, präsentieren die Vibration des Bodens, den Klang der Pflanzen bei Berührung, zahlreiche Umgebungsgeräusche bei Tag und Nacht und …

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New release: @c’s “Installations: LMY-7-10”

Crónica’s first release for 2022 continues @c’s Installations series. “LMY-7-10” was created after the installation of the same title commissioned by the Serralves Foundation for the festival Serralves em Festa and curated by Pedro Rocha. In two spaces contiguous to the Chapel in Serralves — the stairs of its tower and the room adjacent to …

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David Lee Myers’s “Reduced to a Geometrical Point” reviewed by Kathodik

Lo statunitense David Lee Myers, da metà anni ottanta armeggia con le sue feedback machines.Prima come Arcane Device e negli ultimi anni, sempre più spesso con il suo nome.Si è accompagnato in produzioni con artisti storici come Tod Dockstader o prossimi alla storicizzazione come Asmus Tietchens.Suono e immagini in montaggio nei live, per un’espressione di intransigente bellezza (quando + e quando …

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