DoisP​ê​s - DoisP​ê​s beats 2018 - 2022 [2022]

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released November 26, 2022

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lumberjacks - 21 [2022]

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released November 25, 2022

Graphics:

Lourenço

Mastering:

Psyjar

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Funcionário - Cavalcante [2022]

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Look around you. In recent years ambient music has changed and encountering Jon Hassell's fourth world design has become easy. Most of the time there’s no feeling, no narrative, a nothingness of ideas through layers and layers of pastiche and boring bedroom music. This is not bashing. Just a reminder that sometimes the information trap delays an understanding of how good music really is.

“Cavalcante” is the new release by funcionário (born Pedro Tavares). You’ll find Jon Hassell in these eleven pieces. And yes, sometimes you’ll think about ambient music. Most of the time you’ll wonder about what is really happening. And why it's only now you’re hearing about this twenty-something musician from Setúbal, Portugal.

A little bit more than one minute into “En Garde!”, the opening track, one feels challenged by the idea that everything that was listened up to that moment was a false start. The piece abruptly stops, flips some digital sound, and restarts in a whole new direction. As this happens it becomes obvious we are in for a treat. Those two, three seconds create a sensation that everything happens in a moment that introduces you to funcionário's craft: delicate complex sounds infatuated with the idea of movement and the never-ending notion that there’s no dividers in the fourth world. Music can go beyond that.

As it moves forward – “Verde”, “Sierra” or “Publicidade Arco e Flecha” -, the album (his fourth) morphs around variations or perceptions of ambient / electronic / experimental music. And as the language evolves, it hints on how funcionário keeps stretching the boundaries of digital music as he wishes to advance to a more analog setup. In a way, he confronts foundational ideas while having breakthroughs and realizing he is at a top level. Justifiably ambitious, bright and discreetly edgy. We dare to say: monumental. 

released November 4, 2022

Contributions:

Bitrot - Composition & Production on "En Garde!"

Noiva - Flute & Vocals on "Verde" & "Publicidade Arco e Flecha"

Gabriel Ferrandini - Drums on "Sierra"

Pedro Sousa - Saxophone on "Tributo" & "Sadino Queue"

trash CAN - Composition & Production on "Au orvalho"

Adriana João - Violin on "ResidentSleeper"

Photographs: Adriana João

Mixing: Benjamim Castanheira

Mastering: Brian Pyle

Design: Márcio Matos

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Angélica Salvi - Habitat [2022]

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DISCO ALTAMENTE RECOMENDADO

There’s something familiar in the sounds that Angélica Salvi creates. In her previous record, “Phantone”, it was easy to get lost in the idea of nostalgia / past that could be listened coming from her harp.

For “Habitat”, her second record, the approach is tremendously different. She doesn’t linger in the past, she expects you to fulfill the present side-by-side with her. The idea was to create music that could be played and processed in real time. It is also the first time Angélica Salvi is working around the idea of songs – instead of pieces – and elaborating on narratives that suit that purpose.

Recorded in May on her own studio – Garagem 16 -, “Habitat” is contemporary music with the essence of pop. Angélica doesn’t exactly try a genre approach, her music is freer of restrains and shows her freedom of thinking music as a musician but also as someone that has been working on film and constantly shows her creations more in the essence of sound than exactly music per se.

The sounds of “Habitat”, since the first seconds of “Nan”, the opening song, are ethereal and melody focused, even if sometimes those melodies chase paths that are somehow labyrinthic.That doesn’t mean that the listener gets lost. There’s always a guiding light. The choice for a more direct approach on this recording proves how clear, enlightened, and focused Angélica Salvi’s sounds is.

There’s no tricks. Just something that sounds real, profound, where you can listen to Angélica’s hands moving and touching the strings. And be completely mesmerized as she continues to pursue melodies that guides the listener to the most beautiful of places.

André Santos 

released November 4, 2022

Harp: Angélica Salvi

Production: João Carvalho

Recording and mixing: James Hurst

Master: Carlos Fuchs

All tracks by Angélica Salvi except "Arpa" by T-Klass with electronic sounds by Alexandre Soares.

Composition assistance: Fátima Fonte

Artwork: Dayana Lucas

Photo: Renato Cruz Santos

Released by Lovers and Lollypops L&L#131

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Vítor Rua, Joana Gama - Home Sweet Sound [2022]

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“Home Sweet Sound”, 2019

(Teatro Musical: para uma performer pianista, melódica, metrónomo, electrónica em tempo-real, objectos do dia-a-dia, suporte digital)

O encontro entre Joana Gama e Vítor Rua é uma viagem idiomática, painel de linguagens entre os tutti; a variação e a multiplicidade idioletal torna insusceptível qualquer classificação estilística e tipológica unívoca, pois é uma montagem heterofónica; é um fluxo descontínuo e desconstrutivo, com diferenciadas frentes idioletais e idiomáticas.

O idioleto, ou seja, o discurso singular e privado destes músicos, é uma função esquizóide, impõe o seu selo a toda a sintomatologia, exibe um código, privado e independente, de um só locutor, emerge da significação catártica da experiência musical.

"…tic-tac…tic-tac…tic-tac…tic-tac… trrrrrrriiiiiimmmm… home sweet sound retrata vinte e quatro horas da vida de uma pianista do século XXI; a sua casa (“home”) é o piano de cauda; o seu som (“sound”) é a sua Vida: acordar, calistenias, estudo, invenção, improvisação, alimentação, ensaio, diversão, concerto, sono; no decurso do seu “dia” assistimos a uma simbiose do piano com instrumentos electrónicos da nossa época; o corpo e mente da pianista “dividem-se” e uma parte é analógica e outra é digital; esquerda & direita; razão e intuição; tonal e atonal; ruído e silêncio; preto e branco; home sweet sound não tem início: apenas começa; e não tem fim: apenas termina; …tic-tac…tic-tac…tic-tac…tic-tac…" 

released April 4, 2022

Ficha artística/ técnica Composição & encenação & luz & vídeo: Vítor Rua / Piano, melódica, electrónica e performance & co-criação: Joana Gama / Apoio à residência: Musibéria / Co-produção: Circular Associação Cultural /

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Conjunto Júlio - Só Mais Um Júlio [2022]

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released October 14, 2022

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SouTuga (Elementus Musicalis) - Elementos [2022]

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released November 17, 2022

Nota: A faixa 6 (bónus) consiste num improviso para guitarra da minha autoria. Não está incluída no download. Unicamente para audição online !

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John Fletcher - 55 Pieces Of A Big Picture [2022]

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In the early 1990s John Fletcher began studying classical guitar at the “Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa” (National Conservatory of Lisbon) with Professor Lopes e Silva, and jazz at the “Hot Club

de Portugal” jazz school, with Mário Delgado and Pedro Madaleno as teachers. Later he studied

at the “Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa” with Professors Piñeiro Nagy, António Gonçalves

and Olga Prats. JF also regularly attended the composition courses oriented by composer Emmanuel Nunes held at Calouste Gulbenkian foundation, and participated in Masterclasses by David Russell, Hopkinson Smith, Rolf Lislevand, Costas Cotsiolis, Darko Petrinjak, Joaquín Clerch, Hubert Käppel,

Carlo Marchione, Marco Socías, Robert Brightmor, Dejan Ivanovich, Javier Hinojosa, Turibio Santos, and others. In 2000 JF proceeded his studies at the Musikhögskolan i Malmö, Sweden, with

Professors Gunnar Spjuth and Göran Söllscher, where he learned to play Altgitarren (11 string alto guitar). By the composers request, JF played António Pinho Vargas’s guitar composition at the series of concerts sponsored by Culturgest in 2002 "António Pinho Vargas – Obra Completa." In 2011 JF completed a Masters in guitar teaching, at the Piaget Institute of Almada, where he developed a research on music in Protestant communities in Lisbon in between 1945 and 1965, under guidance of Professors Helena Ribeiro de Castro and Dejan Ivanovich as supervisors. In addition to regularly perform solo and chamber music concerts, and to participate on recordings of various music styles, JF also collaborates in projects covering different periods and styles, here highlighted: Jogralesca, Orquestra de Jazz Humanitária, Coro Gospel de Azeitão, Omaira, and duos with clarinetist Fausto Corneo and Luthier Orlando Trindade. Currently JF is working with renowned composers, developing new repertoire for the Altgitarren. Along with his concert activity JF has been dedicated to teaching classical guitar at different conservatories in Portugal, and currently teaches at the Conservatório Regional de Setúbal and Conservatório Regional de Palmela. 

Guitar music from Renaissance to 21st Century

released November 12, 2022

Guitarist: John Fletcher

Guitar built by luthier Orlando Trindade

(model. JF No. 1, assembled in 2008)

Sound Engineer: José Fortes

Publisher: John Fletcher

Graphic Design: Joana Dias (Oceano)

Cover Image, detail from an oil painting: by Olívia Fletcher

Recorded: 2018, Portugal

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Various - Street Mission Records: Five Years of Street Mission Records [2022]

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ESTE TRABALHO TEM O APOIO ELEMENTUS MUSICALIS

To celebrate our first five years, we are releasing a retrospective compilation called ‘Five Years of Street Mission Records’ collecting songs from all our artists including Hesanobody, Delafaye, Niki Moss, Marinho, Time for T, Monday, Ailbhe Reddy, Cavalo55, Ricky Lewis and Elephant Path – full tracklisting below.

The collection features three songs specially recorded for the occasion - Delafaye original 'Rolling Thunder' which is magical, Time for T’s stunningly beautiful cover of Paul Simon’s ‘Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes’, and the long overdue recording of ‘Long Ride Home’ from Marinho & Cavalo55, a cover of a Patty Griffin classic. A video of their wonderful performance of it at our Street Mission Records night in Lisbon earlier this year will be released too.

Out on cassette and digitally. The digital version comes with two bonus tracks from the two newest members of the Street Mission family - Elephant Path, with the release of the brand-new dreamy song 'Getty Villa Garden', and Ricky Lewis with the first new song he released on the label ‘Perfect Light (Jimmy’s Song)’, closing out the compilation in the most perfect way possible.

Profits from the sale of the cassette will be given to União Audiovisual.

released November 11, 2022

An eternal thank you to all of our artists that have called this label their home at various times over the past five years - being a part of their musical journeys has been, and continues to be such an inspiration, honour and privilege - thanks for making this possible and helping make this label what it is, and for making this dream of ours come true. It means the world to us, and we love ya. Thank you to everybody who has listened, supported, and stuck with us on the journey so far. There’s still so much to come.

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Various - Odd Numbers: a Fine Tune Compilation [Compilação 2022]

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ESTA COMPILAÇÃO TEM O APOIO ELEMENTUS MUSICALIS!

A MINHA REVIEW PODERÁ SER VISTA NESTE LINK

Fine Tune Recordings has always revelled in eclectism and genre bending and no more so than here on this, the second label sampler, craftily entitled 'Odd Numbers'.

Here we've made a selection from our current multi-faceted repertoire with a few tasters from forthcoming releases by new artists like Cobweb Harp.

Please enjoy and support the artists by checking out the links to their other material below.

released November 4, 2022

You can find more tracks by these artists at the following links.

Loka with Julius Vanderbilt: juliusvanderbilt.bandcamp.com/album/invisible-ep

James Beige: jamesbeige.bandcamp.com/album/four-shades-of-beige

Mr Liquorice: mrliquorice.bandcamp.com

Tim Perkins: timperkinscomposer.bandcamp.com

Julius Vanderbilt: juliusvanderbilt.bandcamp.com/album/action-catalyst

Cobweb Harp: soundcloud.com/cobweb_harp

The Dandelion Set: thedandelionset.bandcamp.com

Heavy Water: juliusvanderbilt.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-water-heavy-water

The Blue Planet Sound: theblueplanetsound.bandcamp.com/album/kaleidoscope

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Claude Lavender - After Lunch [2022]

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This album was recorded on 1/4" tape format using an 8 track Fostex A8 with a Teac model 3 mixer. Mastered to two track Teac at 7.5 IPS tape speed. This album is dedicated to Decker - our beloved family dog. Jan 1st 2008 - Nov 30th 2021.

Produced by Claude Lavender and Larry Diamond. All instruments and programming by Claude Lavender except guitar solos by Mike Tuyp on tracks 3,4,5,7,8,10 and bass guitar by Jeff Smith on tracks 6,7 and 10.

Written and recorded in Lavender Studios between January 2021 into April of 2022. Engineered and mixed/mastered by Larry Diamond. Art direction and photography by Christine McKenna, with tape design by Ian Kilpatrick.

released November 2, 2022

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