Influenced by a lot of names \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to be found outside the music field\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, which include Proust, Poe, Alighieri, Friedrich, Waterhouse and so on, up to director Sofia Coppola and erotic photographers Guido Argentini and Roy Stuart, Portuguese Jorge Mantas wants us to call him a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sound designer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, not a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153composer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. He also hates those who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t express emotion through their work, and concludes that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing more uninspiring than an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153untitled\u00e2\u20ac\u009d piece (a WBA\/WBC title unification match with Francisco L\u00c3\u00b3pez looms after this declaration, one surmises). That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why the large part of the titles in this CD are taken from Marcel Proust. But what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all the more important is that in its non-revolution – because this is purely and simply laptop-conceived, loop-based music – \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Musicamorosa\u00e2\u20ac\u009d contains the best things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard from the artist in question. A touch of romanticism, a good choice of intoxicating spirals of orchestral samples and circular chords and, voila, almost 70 minutes flow away with few annoyances (next to none, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say) and several truly arresting moments, at times whispering Basinskian languages, often only showing different schemes for the utilization of common ingredients. Luscious, abstract, caressing; those are the most useful adjectives here, partially negated by the long final track \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Soixtante-quatre\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which tends to a blacker kind of electronic mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Influenced by a lot of names \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to be found outside the music field\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, which include Proust, Poe, Alighieri, Friedrich, Waterhouse and so on, up to director Sofia Coppola and erotic photographers Guido Argentini and Roy Stuart, Portuguese Jorge Mantas wants us to call him a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sound designer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, not a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153composer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. He also hates those who … <\/p>\n