Label: Discrepant

Gonzo名義にて奇怪な民族音楽のミックスやコラージュものを制作、そして素晴らしいライナップを揃えるここDiscrepantのオーナーとしても活動するGoncalo F. Cardoso。玄人好みのオブスキュアな構築が上手い個人的大推薦作家が2022年3月に発表した4年振りの新作LP。マレーシアはボルネオ島の森でフィールドレコーディングを行い、それらをポータブルレコーダーやサンプラー、バッテリー駆動のシンセサイザーにて不穏なエキゾチカとして再構築した異質のアンビエントもの。夢見心地でありながらどこか恐怖を感じる、まさにこの人物の音楽性が存分に発揮された一枚。激激オススメ。





A globetrotter in the most pure and respectful sense, away from the trappings of neo-colonialist ventures and predatory tourism, Discrepant head honcho Gonçalo F. Cardoso returns to his Island impression series to offers us another glimpse of his deep, abstract impressions of (an)other island.

After passionately collecting the sounds and lives inhabiting the main Island of Zanzibar, Unguja, released through Edições CN back in 2018, Cardoso now dwells into the Malaysian heartbeat of the Borneo forest through Island recordings made during a trip in 2016. Assembled in situ with meticulous craft from portable recorders, samplers and battery powered synths, these nice recollections conjure the spirits that lurk behind the inhabitable and the communal that are as much part of a personal memoir as an impressionistic portrait open to new meanings. Focused compositions that flow organically, bending the environment in & out of shape into a new dreamlike exotica with plenty of breathing room for every detail, silence and movement to surface.

A particular moment suspended in time, haunted perpetually by its bygone existence. Something no postcard or photograph could ever, ever come even close to.