Label: Unexplained Sounds Group

当店お馴染みのDavid Maranha、Manuel Mota、Margarida Garciaらも参加!!音楽と科学、また芸術形式との関係をコンセプトに、現在進行形の世界のアンダーグラウンド音楽シーンの調査を行なっているイタリアのRaffaele Pezzella。氏のレーベルUnexplained Sounds Groupが展開する人気のV.Aタイトル・シリーズ。現在も精力的に活動している音楽家にフォーカスし新たな現代音楽アンソロジーとして纏め上げたものであり、所謂トラディショナルなものだけではなく、それらに影響され本国にてエレクトロアコースティックやコンピュータミュージック、フィールドレコーディング、サウンドスケープを制作する実験作家をコンパイル。本作は現在のポルトガルの動向をまとめた音源集。有名無名問わず一曲一曲の完成度が素晴らしい新たなアーカイヴとして提示した濃い一枚。











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This new chapter of the Sound Mapping series focuses on Portugal, tracing a cartography of contemporary electroacoustic practices that unfold across a wide and diverse spectrum. The compilation presents a constellation of approaches that oscillate between abstract electronics, music directly influenced by Iberian tradition, ritualistic impulses, and slow-moving electroacoustic drone. What emerges is a porous sonic territory shaped by memory, landscape, and experimentation. Portugal’s electroacoustic underground has developed along singular lines, absorbing influences from traditional rhythms, coastal geographies, and a long-standing dialogue between isolation and openness. In these works, electronic sound often remains connected to corporeal and material references. Pulses evoke archaic dances and percussive ceremonies rooted in Iberian heritage, while drones stretch time into meditative or suspended states, recalling sacred spaces and raw natural environments.
As with previous Sound Mapping projects, the intention is to offer an immersive journey through sound. The thirteen compositions collected here explore the tension between the ancestral and the synthetic, inviting the listener to experience Portugal through sound, as a shifting terrain where electronics, Iberian tradition, ritual memory, and abstraction converge.