@c - Hard Disk CD

It is hard to point the start of these tracks, although we know when and where they were recorded, Aveiro, Vienna, Lisbon... but where did they really start? From our memories, they come from Porto, Berlin, wherever we performed, in public or not... With Alex, with Vítor and João... Always with Lia and her inspiring images! What we cannot say is that they are full improvisations. Although the composition is not prepared or scored, although there’s no rehearsal, the compositions grow with us. They are born at any given moment and then they develop their own history that we freeze here, at a given moment that is not however it’s end.


This is a hard sound to describe. Not quite glitch, the sounds are more real, but they do borrow the shortness and scattered timing, not quite techno, there are no rhythms, a little electronic, but not electronica. Experimental, yes, but that implies holding mics up to crystals to get the sounds they emit or something equally wacky. This has the burbles and clicks you would expect to hear if your washing machine was set on soothe and you attached a contact mic up to it, then converted the sounds into an analog digital sound. Well, it is called hard disk - you could think of this as the sound of data being written to your drive, but the drive is not your normal magnetic drive but a large wooden disc in the middle of the forrest, data flowing up the cambium of the trees. Confused yet? Maybe. But this is a cool album, the sounds are minimal and sparse, but there is still a full sound here. Definitely a good disc to change the ambience of a room without dominating it. And I do like it, even though I can't describe it.(Don Poe)

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