“Crónica L” reviewed by Cyclic Defrost

Cronica celebrates their 50th release with L, a compilation pairing 18 Cronica artists into collaborations. This results in 9 new compositions, exploring various facets of the label’s approach to hazy, electro-acoustic sound art. While it’s difficult to pin Cronica down to a distinct sound, the artists here chiefly work in drones, in which field recording …

“Crónica L” at Terje Paulsen’s 2010 Favorites

Crónica’s compilation, released in 2010 to mark our 50th edition, was selected as one of the highlights of 2010 by Terje Paulsen at Spiritual Archives. “Crónica L” was freely distributed to all the subscribers of Neural magazine (issue #36, May 2010) and not sold through any of the usual distribution channels. We do however still …

The Beautiful Schizophonic live at MadeiraDig 2010

Tomorrow night, at the opening concert of this year’s MadeiraDig festival, The Beautiful Schizophonic will perform with Susana Mourão’s visuals. This year’s line up of MadeiraDig also includes performances by Ben Frost, Janek Schaefer, Peter Rehberg, Peter Broderick, Caro Mikalef & Stephan Mathieu, Simon Whetham and Hugo Olim.

“Crónica L” reviewed by Loop

Este compilado celebra la edición número 50 del sello de Porto, Portugal, dirigido por Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela, quienes invitaron a 18 artistas del sello para que colaboraran entre ellos porduciendo nueve temas. La primera pista es por el italiano Enrico Coniglio y el artista sonoro británico Janek Shaefer que es una pieza de …

Crónica releases are now available at various online stores

Several Crónica disc releases are now available through various online stores, besides Boomkat, through which store we have been distributing our releases for the last couple of years. You can currently find most of the latest releases available for purchase and download through outlets as iTunes, Amazon, emusic, Fnac, Napster, Juno, among others. Nicolas Bernier’s …

“Crónica L” reviewed by Textura

Crónica celebrates its fiftieth release with a compilation featuring nine collaborations by Stephan Mathieu, Janek Schaefer, Lawrence English, Marc Behrens, Stephen Vitiello, Tu M’, and others. Crónica L’s material is emblematic of the type of bold experimentalism the label has remained faithful to since its inception more than seven years ago. It’s an hour of …

“Crónica L” reviewed by Monsieur Délire

The Portugese label Crónica is celebrating its 50th release with a beautiful compilation album. Nine collaborations between 18 of the label’s key artists, 18 artists all illustrating in their own way the label’s aesthetics of sound experimentation and redefinition of the act of listening. I would point out the collaborations between Gilles Aubry and Paulo …

“Crónica L” reviewed by Vital Weekly

Labels sometimes release label samplers, which is of course if you need to reach a new audience. Sometimes they come with a magazine. And sometimes they are send to magazines for review. I never like to review compilations, but least of all those label samplers. It’s usually stuff I already reviewed or sneak preview, but …

“Balunar” by Jorge Mantas and Susana Mourão at Escrita na Paisagem

The audiovisual installation “Balunar” by Jorge Mantas (a.k.a. The Beautiful Schizophonic) and Susana Mourão, will be presented at the Museu de Évora from September 21 to 23, as part of this year’s Escrita na Paisagem festival.

The Beautiful Schizophonic in the new Ondarock compilation

The new Ondarock compilation, “OndaDrops Vol.2: Take the sounds, turn them into words” is now available as a free download from their website. Among several tracks it includes “Dreaming in the proximity of Mars” a new piece by The Beautiful Schizophonic.