{"id":10237,"date":"2018-12-04T18:15:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10237"},"modified":"2018-12-04T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:15:07","slug":"sirias-cuspo-reviewed-by-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10237","title":{"rendered":"S\u00c3\u00adria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cuspo\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by The Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nVinyl records, recordings and vocals combine in Portuguese artist Diana Combo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest work. I know this, because when you visit S\u00c3\u00adria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bandcamp page, the process of recording is explained. Artists, especially those coming from a visual world before they get engaged in music, love explaining what they do, how they do it, why they do it. How I wish Combo had kept scrum. Totally selfish reasons \u00e2\u20ac\u201c self-promotion has to be informative, has to reveal things you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d ordinarily only guess at \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but I wish total mystery had been maintained about the means of Cuspo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s creation (it was recorded after its first live performance at a Porto experimental festival in 2017).
\nThe haunting steadiness of Combo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vocals is key \u00e2\u20ac\u201c emotional movement less important than populating the soundscape with a half-human, half-ghostly voice. The way Combo layers the sounds underneath her voice is interesting \u00e2\u20ac\u201c sometimes overwhelming the voice in rushes if traffic noise ad city heat (the stunning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Lua da Eva\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), sometimes absconding to a place not quite tranquil, flooded with water, perhaps not even with land underfoot at all. The fact I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t speak Portuguese is also key \u00e2\u20ac\u201c there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a suggestiveness to the words in a purely phonetic sense that means every moment the voice gets dubbed or echoed (which is often) you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re pulled along its syntactical shape without getting anchored in any frame of reference. That fluidity extends to the sequencing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c tracks flow in and out of each other to the point where apertures into other realities seem to open up in your consciousness.
\nTrippy as fuck but entirely unpsychedelic, this is more like the true unhinged depths of extreme sleep deprivation turned into sound, where lighting seems to always flash from behind you and your peripheral vision hums with life. Freaky in extremis. Neil Kulkarni<\/em><\/p>\n

via The Wire<\/p>\n