Há tÃtulos que se apossam das obras que nomeiam. Tornam-se guardiões, mediadores e senhores do seu conteúdo. É preciso ceder à sua chantagem,é inevitável que se lhes obedeça. Esforço inútil, porque jamais conseguiremos ver-nos livres da sua presença. Muito menos quando um tÃtulo tem um poder tão evocativo quanto La Strada Is On Fire (And …
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A música recorre a um complexo jogo de formas sonoras, onde os saxofones desempenham um papel meritório na construção de ambientes nebulosos, que podiam encaixar perfeitamente em esferas de pânico ao mais nobre estilo suspense digital. O álbum ajusta-se à coerência da editora, englobando música abstracta, pensativa e recolhida, deslumbrada com a manipulação e apaixonada …
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Ainda a electrónica como máquina de sonhos fabricados a partir de recortes da realidade mesmo que a “realidade†não seja mais do que a fenomenologia de um mundo “exterior†que nos é vedado. A estrada está a arder mas não nos damos conta. E VÃtor Joaquim filma o vazio do pós-incêndio. Os saxofones conferem uma …
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La Ou Je Dors is a sonic masterpiece, densely packed with layer after layer of intriguing sounds and sampled loops that come from the heart, not some pre-packaged piece of software.(…) “Figures That Fall Apart” reminds one of some of the more dissonant Teletype transmissions that used to be sent on shortwave radio. From there …
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Sabe-se da importância da palavra poética enquanto factor de indução de imagens. Desta conjugação Tudela faz surgir drones das quais vão emergindo batidas de “ambient tecnoâ€, cortadas por arranhões nos locais mais extravagantes da rede sónica, efeitos de “delay†e “phaseâ€, sobreposições, ecos, súbitas eclosões de ruÃdo seguidas de contracções e aspirações. “Là où je …
This album was released on the Portuguese Crónica Electronica label of which we reviewed @c. This disc was based on the work of the choreographer Isabel Barros whose concept to develop is the dream. For this Pedro Tudela, who lives in Porto, follows with attention the development of the rehearsals of this work, opportunity in …
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 …
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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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 …
Very delicate drones, fluctuating atmospheres, rarefied ambient scores and glitches, fragments of a literary universe (Proust’s, in his ‘Récherche’, several times cited as the main source of inspiration by Jorge Mantas, aka The Beautiful Schizophonic), infused in romantic empathy, ‘heart throbs’ and melancholic visions, redundant intimate experiences. A sensitivity that, in the (romanced?) figure of …
