Memento são canções de carnaval para fantasmas, um lugar vazio além do tempo onde as coisas apenas são. Nele, elementos de espiritualidade e fé se misturam com uma sonoridade lúdica e macabra. As faixas foram compostas através de código, soando às vezes aleatórias, e quase todos os instrumentos foram executados por fantasmas, na mais profunda escuridão da quarentena de 2020.

Igualmente espiritual e safado, o disco é também uma exploração da mescla entre música computacional, brasileira e latino-americana, e de possíveis caminhos de uma afirmação identitária no contexto da música generativa. Da mais tenra saudade à mais aterrorizante diversão, Memento ocupa um não-espaço único, cujo maldito encanto para sempre existirá.

Vós que agora escutais, eu vos amaldiçoo com eterna coragem de viver.

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Une selection de morceaux qui sentent bon l'été ! Profitez de ce petit voyage musical avec un sunset qui tombe bien !

A selection of tracks that smell like summer! Enjoy this little musical journey with a sunset that falls well!

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Baile da Rapunzel

Brent Fayaz Trust-(Cupido Do Baile piseirim FLIP)
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TRUST Brent Fayaz (Cupido Do Baile- Piseirinho Remix)

Musiquinha do Mine(Living Mice- C418) Versão Sambinha.

SAMBACRAFT

I Wanna Go Back Again

Embrazação livre.
Sade-Jezebel, 
Mc Dricka- Vai Fazer carão

Mal Sabe Ele

VEM NO SNAPCHAT

Since emerging in the early 2000s with releases on the seminal Merck label, Proswell (Joseph Misra) has proven to be one of the most original voices in IDM. People Are Giving And Receiving Thanks At Incredible Speeds (PAGARTAIS), his debut on Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit, is another Proswell record which overflows with creative energy. Containing five widescreen electronic epics, PAGARTAIS showcases some of the most ambitious work in the discographies of both artist and label.

The core sonic palette of PAGARTAIS is one schooled in the IDM and electronica sounds of imprints like Rephlex Records, B12 and Skam. These tracks are helmed by thick washes of keys, an array of playful synth tones and drums so deft it’s sometimes hard to tell whether they have been programmed or played live. However, across almost forty minutes of music here Proswell explodes preconceptions about genre and form, his music gleefully jumping from one new sound to the next while assimilating electro, prog, computer game music, post-jazz and pretty much everything in between.

Opener ‘PAGARTAIS I’ sets the tone for the rest of the record. This is a track which never sits still - beginning with a distorted melee of drums that comes off like a strange new version of breakbeat, ‘PAGARTAIS I’ moves through some thrillingly idiosyncratic takes on Rephlex-school IDM, stargazing Detroit electro and The Comet Is Coming’s futurist electronic jazz across its near-ten-minute runtime. Following number ‘PAGARTAIS II’ is no less impressive, referencing the hyper-modern computer sounds of Iglooghost and Kai Whiston while containing a driving opening section which could have soundtracked one of the legendary Wipeout games.

Although this fabulously unpredictable record often zips along at high speeds, Proswell is also able to dial things back when he needs to. Indeed, the second half of PAGARTAIS finds him slowing down a tad in order to deliver some of the album’s most atmospheric material - ‘PAGARTAIS III’ blends cutting-edge electronics with sonorous jazz harmonies and fizzing improvised lead lines, the mysterious ‘PAGARTAIS IV’ is a sort of freeform variation on the maximalist, colourful electronica of Galaxy Garden-era Lone, and the slinking computerised Braindance number ‘PAGARTAIS V’ recalls Calum Gunn’s recent CPU drop Addenda.

Really, though, none of these comparisons quite do justice to the inventive capacity of this music - Proswell’s in a lane of his own here. An incredibly innovative fusion record that takes in IDM, prog, computer music, electro and plenty more besides, People Are Giving And Receiving Thanks At Incredible Speeds (PAGARTAIS) is the sound of a unique musical mind in full flight.

RIYL: Calum Gunn, Kai Whiston, Iglooghost, Rustie, Bogdan Raczynski

Proswell - People Are Giving And Receiving Thanks At Incredible Speeds (PAGARTAIS)

Ghales (he/him) uses code to make lo-fi beats and experimental music.
Programmer, Composer, Sound Artist.

TidalCycles @ Nomade Lab: soundcloud.com/nomadelab
Bass @ Munha da 7 Top Trio: soundcloud.com/munha-da-7
Guitar @ Parabolist: parabolist.bandcamp.com

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