{"id":9627,"date":"2017-03-13T10:24:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T09:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9627"},"modified":"2017-03-12T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T12:25:21","slug":"geography-reviewed-by-the-sound-projector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9627","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Geography\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by The Sound Projector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cronica117-2016_520.jpg\" alt=\"cronica117-2016_520\" width=\"520\" height=\"468\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8443\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cronica117-2016_520.jpg 520w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cronica117-2016_520-260x234.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><br \/>\nVitor Joaquim, Porto\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s celebrated laptop geomancer, tries to nail it all down with Geography, which sounds like a statement of intent. The opening title track confirms his intentions, as it arrives with sampled speech from some sort of space mission documentary. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as if Joaquim is pulling back to show us the planet in its entirety, before coming right back down to ground level.<\/p>\n<p>The eight tracks on this release were inspired by Jared Diamond\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Guns, Germs and Steel\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, which attempted to show how human history and culture has been shaped by environmental factors. I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read the book, so I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t comment on that, or indeed, how suitable this album is as a soundtrack. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to make your own minds up about that.<\/p>\n<p>What I can comment on is the music, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a satisfying set of electronic experimentalism, stitched together from countless live instrumental samples and served up with just the right amount of glitch and fizz. In that sense, it reminds me of the Jemh Circs LP, with a serious laptop face instead of a sugar-rush pop-music grin. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a release that is equally worthy of your attention, I feel.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2314384304\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=e99708\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/cronica.bandcamp.com\/album\/geography\">Geography by Vitor Joaquim<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitor Joaquim, Porto\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s celebrated laptop geomancer, tries to nail it all down with Geography, which sounds like a statement of intent. The opening title track confirms his intentions, as it arrives with sampled speech from some sort of space mission documentary. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as if Joaquim is pulling back to show us the planet in its &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Geography\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by The Sound Projector&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[339,15],"class_list":["post-9627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-339","tag-vitor-joaquim","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9628,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}