Gonçalo Penas - Ego De Espinhos [SUB027]  
Release date: January 18, 2019 
Vinyl & digital pre-order: https://goncalopenas.bandcamp.com/album/ego-de-espinhos

Continuing Subtext’s exploratory electronics and devastating sonics is the expansive Ego De Espinhos, the debut full-length from twenty-two year old Porto, Portugal-based artist Gonçalo Penas.

Described by Penas as a series of “self-exorcisms,” Ego De Espinhos is the cathartic outcome of a highly introspective process. Shaped by opposing forces and instincts, the LP touches on themes that are at once intimate, yet omnipresent. Splendor confronts destruction; id confronts super-ego.

Created solely with digital instruments designed and built by the artist, Ego De Espinhos is the result of Penas’ improvisations. 

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Pioneering the pioneers @ Irreversible Music 
Ritual Industrial Drone Witch

Visual Artist in <3 with electronic music...

"Mixing electronic sounds with acoustic instruments playing, Fahmi has combined his different skills to create electro-acoustic compositions that in some cases also wear resemblance to the style of what we used to call post-rock. Composition and playing with the sounds or of instruments are merged close together here, resulting in an atmosphere of ethereal and austere."
- Post Global Recordings

"I got hooked on Fahmi’s music before, and … honestly, far from playing favorites, I find I keep accidentally running over it through aliases and different links and enjoying it over and over again. (While I was just in Indonesia for Nusasonic, it wasn’t the trip that made me discover the music – it was the work of musicians like Fahmi that were the reason we all found ourselves on the other side of the world in the first place, to be more accurate. They discovered new sounds, and us.)"
- Peter Kirn / CDM

"Although the excellent Tandem Tapes label is based in Jakarta, they’re run by an ex-pat Aussie and have a decidedly international outlook. Nevertheless they do showcase plenty of great experimental Indonesian artists, and we finish tonight with Bandung-based “sound sculptor” Fahmi Mursyid, who uses granular synthesis to transform found sounds, guitar and traditional Indonesian instruments into surging drone and glitch works. I love the snatches of choral harmonies floating in and out of this particular track."
- Peter Hollo / FBi Radio

"With an ever-increasing array of powerful, portable and affordable electronic instruments available, the temptation for producers is to go maximal with their sound. But as these videos—courtesy of Indonesian musician Fahmi Mursyid—prove, a seriously affective and versatile sound can be crafted from the most limited of means."
- Telekom Electronic Beats 

"Jakarta Indonesia based Tandem Tapes is quickly becoming one of my favorite labels. It seems like half of their artists are pulled from the pool of experimental music that the Tome swims in and half are undiscovered gems from around the world the Indonesian based Fahmi Mursyid. I find myself lucky to have discovered something like Fahmi's soundclash of the sacred and profane. Gorgeous vocal drones beneath playful, exploratory electronics that ward off any tendency for the heavy hand."
- Tome to the Weather Machine

Featured :

CDM (Create Digital Music)
http://cdm.link/2018/11/tape-loop-drones-fahmi/

XLR8R
https://www.xlr8r.com/news/donato-dozzy-album-fahmi-mursyid-and-alessandro-di-puccio-next-on-grand-rivers-one-instrument

Telekom Electronic Beats 
http://www.electronicbeats.net/the-feed/listen-drift-away-relaxing-ambient-tape-loops-indonesia

Brutal Resonance
http://www.brutalresonance.com/news/experimental-musician-fahmi-mursyid-releases-new-album-via-tandem-tapes/

FBi 94.5 FM Live Radio
https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/utility-fog/2018-02-18-2100/

Media Indonesia
http://mediaindonesia.com/read/detail/71038-sumber-irama-yang-tidak-kasatmata

Dewan Kesenia Jakarta
https://dkj.or.id/program/pekan-komponis-indonesia-2016-musik-eksperimental-elektronik/

A Musical Promenade
http://musicalprom.com/2016/10/04/mencari-makna-di-balik-suara/

MUSLAB 2018:
https://depositosonoro.com/2018/08/31/sesion-de-escucha-muestra-internacional-de-musica-electroacustica-muslab/

The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/27203-nurse-with-wound-klein-black-truffle-rum-music-review

Resident Advisor 
https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/44065

TOME TO THE WEATHER MACHINE PODCAST 019
http://www.tometotheweathermachine.com/reviews/2018/02/tome-weather-machine-podcast-019

One Year In Guangzhou
https://oneyearinguangzhou.blog/2018/04/07/new-music-china-zoogazer-the-foreigners-nein-or-gas-mus-pool-of-light-seippelabel/

Chinabot
https://www.chinabot.co/mental-maps

FACT
https://www.factmag.com/2019/07/09/donato-dozzy-ems-synthi-aks-one-instrument/

The Wire
https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/417

Subtext Recordings is a Bristol founded / Berlin based label curated by james ginzburg.

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I've always thought that drowning in the ocean is a beautiful way to die.  At least after the moment where you lose the fight to live, breathe your last breath and you drift quietly under.  The music I play on the show is very much like a large body of water.  Its an ecosystem of life and emotion.  Synthesizers and textures ebb and flow.  My show is about drowning in sound, sadness, and the serene.

