Deux Islandais et un Australien sont dans un studio, Ils se racontent des histoires de nature, de compromis entre nature et culture, de soundscape digitaux, d’imitation du réel. Staalplaat et les Pays Bas semblent avoir joué un rôle prépondérant dans la genèse de ce projet et dans l’entremêlement de ces 3 individualités. Heimir Björgulfsson y …
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“Still Important Somekind Not Normally Seen (Always Not Unfinished)†reviewed by Blitz
(…) Tem uma tendência lúcida subtil, longinqua na insinuação, mas que esparge disco com um humor residual. Afinal de contas, são três micro-roedores a devorarem um quadro eléctrico, com disputas frequentes por fusÃveis e descargas perdidas. A tranquilidade da degustação domina, mas a devastação está lá, corrosiva. (…) É só desligar as luzes e eles …
“Still Important Somekind Not Normally Seen (Always Not Unfinished)†reviewed by Touching Extremes
It takes a while to fully enjoy this recording, which is best appreciable if you listen to it on shuffle play mode: that way, the “out of tune TV” effect of this schizophrenic enigma will show its complete efficiency. A complete lack of communication is reconfigured through an apparatus of strange codes, each one looking …
“Musicamorosa†reviewed by Boomkat
The Beautiful Schizophrenic is the pseudonym of sound designer Jorge Mantas, an artist who clearly has a bit of a fixation on Marcel Proust: all but two of the titles here are borrowed from lines of text from the author’s A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu – La Prisonniere. Of course it’s utterly preposterous to …
“Musicamorosa†reviewed by Igloo
It caresses the mind and careens forward, this Beautiful Schizophonic (Jorge Mantas). Musicamorosa is a selection of passages, deep and full-bodied in passionate drone. Music for the awakening of the soul, no doubt. Much of this was influenced by the romantic sense of time, and losing it, in the literary work of the great Proust …
“Musicamorosa†reviewed by De-Bug
Sehr Konzept-bezogen und doch so schön. Jorge Mantas liest Proust und schon gibt es Tracktitel. Und auch die Musik ist von dem Literaten inspiriert, wie das funktioniert, muss man hier nicht ausbreiten. Viel wichtiger der Klang, und wenn man unbedingt Vergleiche ziehen will, dann ist dieses Album die definitive Mischung aus Marsen Jules, Gas und …
“Musicamorosa†reviewed by Foutraque
Décidément cette rentrée musicale est, pour ma part, placée sous le signe des disques en marge. Ceux hors normes, difficiles d’accès lors de la première écoute mais qui au final se relèvent merveilleusement beaux. Le premier album Musicamorosa de The Beautiful Schizophonic en fait partie ; distillant ses charmes envoûtants au fil des écoutes successives. …
“Musicamorosa†reviewed by Westzeit
Neu auf Crónica ist “MUSICAMOROSA”, das Debut von THE BEAUTIFUL SCHIZOPHONIC, der sich von romantischen Malern und düsteren Dichtern (Poe, Dante) beeinflusst sieht und seine Drone-Schichtungen aus vielfach verloopten Streichern und diversen anderen electronischen Zutaten mit Titeln aus Prousts “Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit” schmückt. So richtig zwingend ist das nicht, zum Chill-out im Avantgardeclub …
“Musicamorosa†reviewed by Chain D.L.K.
Last time I heard from Jorge Mantas was with his cdr on Mystery Sea. I had shared a cd with him on Thisco, and I really liked his dark, concise, sometimes lo-fi approach to digital drones. I’ve lost traces of him for a while and now I discover he’s mellowed out: pink layout, Proust quotes …
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“Musicamorosa†reviewed by Rumore
“Uno stordente sogno in musica”, “gli uccelli che dormono nell’aria”, “un giardino ancora silenzioso prima del levarsi del giorno”, sono alcuni dei titoli prelevati dal corpo della “Recherche” di Proust che la musica del portoghese Jorge Mantas alias TBS anela ad evocare. Scaturito nel 2003 da esperimenti personali con computer e minidisc, il progetto trae …