“Flow” reviewed by Phosphor

Each song title of Vitor Joaquim’s latest album contains the word “moments”. The concept of Flow is the possibilities and impossibilities of relationships. A concept that is difficult to translate or incorporate by means of electronics. But the spoken texts by Filipa Hora make up for this.

Vitor Joaquim’s music is built upon abstract, relatively high-pitched digital sequences. A substantial part of the music really sounds digitalized and computerized, accentuating an artificial modernism. Or as the artist puts it himself: all the ideosyncrasics of bare-naked human expression, altered, expanded and processed beyond it’s own flesh and blood.” Nevertheless the music is never fake, nor boring. Listening to these moments makes fun, the’re excellent.