Its been quite a while, I believe, that we last heard something from Portuguese laptop improvisers @C, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais. Maybe they too are less interested in releasing CDs and otherwise engaged in the production of music? This new release hints at such, as this is the soundtrack of “Ovo, a play by the the puppet theater of Porto […] created cooperatively during a series of rehearsals that involved all the participants”. In total nineteen pieces were recorded, but @C reworked them for a single CD release,in which we no longer see the actors, the stage etc, and hence the title ‘Ab Ovo’. I am not sure how they reworked the original music, but my best guess would everything is thrown into the blender called laptop and reconfigured, new contextualitions and such like and then presented in the form of six pieces, on this quite long release – sixty-six minutes. (…) The music from @C works best, for me, when it’s a bit jumpy, a bit all over the place, collage like and improv based, such as in ‘103’. (…) (FdW)
@c’s “Ab OVO†will be released in early January 2014.