Gonçalo F. Cardoso - Impressões de Outra Ilha (Borneo) [Discrepant]

What Your Ears Say & The Cover looks Like

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What We Say

Sounding like a fevered malarial dream whilst still under the influence of the previous days unexpectedly strong jungle psychotropics, Discrepant boss & Portugal's top musical tripper, Goncalo F. Cardosa manipulates the recordings of his Borneo forest adventures into an abstract holiday travelogue where everything is familiar but nothing is quite what it was. 

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What The Release Notes Say

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.

​CREDITS
Mastered by Rashad Becker
 
Photography by Gonçalo F. Cardoso
 
Recorded by Gonçalo F. Cardoso
 
Typography by Jeroen Wille