In the promotional materials surrounding his new release, Jorge Mantas [aka The Beautiful Schizophonic] says: â€Marcel Proust has been one of the main sources of inspiration to me in the last years. His ideas devoted to the affections of the human heart, his approach deeply rooted on the long literary French tradition in which love …
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“Musicamorosa†reviewed by Furthernoise
Hosted by Jorge Mantas, under the cloak of indulgently named and inclined The Beautiful Schizophonic, comes this assemblage, drenched in a musk of hyper-imagined bedroom-bound longueurs of laptop-lathered longing (mmm, the indulgence is infectious!). Musicamorosa is trailed with the heady referential aromatics of artistic influences ancient and modern. In addition to Proust – about whom …
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“Musicamorosa†reviewed by Bixobal
In the press sheet sent with this CD, Jorge Mantas states that a primary influence for his music is the literary realm. For this particular album, he has used Marcel Prout’s “La recherhe du temps perdu†as a jumping off point. The track titles are quotations from the book and are meant to convey the …