CD TIPP: Gonzo – Ruído(s) / Discrepant
Es ist ein Erinnern, ein Zurücklehnen und ein Schwelgen. Es ist der Raum zwischen Ambient und Field Recordings die die Stärke dieser Musik ausmacht. Es hat soviel mit Portugal und den Menschen gemein, dieses „saudade“. Irgendwo zwischen Fado und einen kleinen Kaffee, wie er überall zu haben ist.
Verspielte analoge Klänge, die etwas an den Sound der „Caretakers“ erinnern. Am Strand sitzend und den Fischern zusehen, wie sie Ihre Netze flicken und sich dabei Ihre Geschichten erzählen, singend … Ich wäre jetzt gern dort. Bezaubernde Musik.
Sometimes you know it’s coming, sometimes it’s unexpected, but the time to hang your boots will always come. It’s better when you have total control, even better if you end up on a high (or on a low). After seven years of sonic interferences, calibrating the soundscape of field recordings and helping to recreate the old sounds of today, Gonzo is retiring from music. It’s a goodbye, yeah, and a well-crafted one.
But “Ruído(s)” doesn’t sound like an intentional one. You won’t listen to it on any of the thirteen tracks that scavenge for a solution in the space between ambient music and field recordings. You won’t feel it in the intense connection between human and natural sounds and how sometimes everything oscillates in opposite states of mind. You won’t even read it in the intense, but subtle, humor present in some of the pieces. You won’t, because it’s not an intentional goodbye. You only know it is, because you’re reading this.
What is it then? It’s a celebration of random sound. How can you experience something scholastic and, simultaneously, deeply hilarious? Just think about the amazing triad formed by “A Fuga dos Grilos”, “Degredado(s)” and “Cantiga Parva”. First, you’re blessed with six minutes that build up on the idea that sound can be an intense religious experience, echoes going back and forth… more
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releases August 30, 2019
Artwork by Evan Crankshaw
All songs by Gonçalo F. Cardoso
Mastered & Cut by Rashad Becker