Month: May 2020

Check out this album by Vassily K., available for pre-release! Loveloop drops in a week from this posting, and it’s incredible. Experimental electronics mix with improvisational acoustic tracks to create something that’s uniquely satisfying and totally took me by surprise. You have to get this one!

Here’s a bio from the man himself:

WHΛLTHISИEY is Fernando Cerqueira from Lisbon, Portugal.

The music of Whalt Thisney is a solitary soundtrack to nowhere, a non-tourist map into the unknown; music and images to create new, fully immersive environments, an intriguing aural pilgrimage with no destination in time and space, nuances and labyrinths. Whalt Thisney selects and mixes music for the mind and body in the same quantities that emerges from encounters between the past and the present, drawing beauty of the commonplace, wiping, polishing it, giving it life again, so to produce the same effect of the original freshness and spontaneity, a mirror that transforms it absorbs and reflects.

Whalt Thisney mixes impressionist piano atmospheres, spoken wordcore, drone, experimental, library, hypnotic escapism music.

Whalt Thisney aka Fernando Cerqueira is the founder member of Thisco record label which released works from Merzbow, Kk Null, Rapoon, Jarboe, Randy Grief, Anla Courtis, Rasalasad, Lasse Marhaug, Von Magnet, Simon Crab, Mimetic among many others.

Fernando Cerqueira is also the publisher of Antibothis printed / cd anthologies and book collection THISCOvery CCChannel ( Thisco / Chili com Carne ) which includes Robin Rimbaud, Andrew Mckenzie, Joe Coleman, Joe Ambrose, Dj Balli, Vadge Moore, Ondina Pires, Rui Eduardo Paes, Z´ev, Hakim Bey, Erik Davies, Critical Art Ensemble, CrimeThinc, V. Vale, Ian F. Svenonius, Adi Newton, Jonh Zerzan, Murcof, Master Musicians of Joujouka, CindYtalk, Terre Thaemlitz among many others.

Fernando Cerqueira was the founder member of the late 80’s SPH tape / record label, and writes for the anarchist newspaper A Batalha.

Fernando Cerqueira / Whalt Thisney has several works released through Symbiose, Thisco, Illuminated Paths, Blocsonic, La Nostalgie de la Boue, Grain of Sound, HNM Rec. Klappstuhl, EE tapes, Vuz Rec. Tape Safe, Spettro Rec., DigitalDizzy, Floppy Kick, Kitsh Magik, Placenta Recordings, Attenuation Circuit, Petroglyph, Post Global rec., Drone Works International, Naviar, Pilot 11, Sea ov Clouds, Attenuation Circuit, Petroglyph, Kahvi, Mahorka, Off, Spiritual Triangles, Silent Flow, Silber, First Earth rec. Aumega, Zenapolae among others and recorded several tracks with Jarboe, Von Magnet, Emil Beaulieau, Merzbow, Smell&Quim, Wild shores, irr.app.(ext.) Antonym, Shhh, Amantra, Harsh Noise Movement, lolipoop, among others.

Dry Eyes (me) has put together an EP of noise art under the name Ecstacy in Torment. He’s very proud of it, and wants you to listen to the sublime sounds within. It’s a Name Your Price on Bandcamp, so by all means, listen!

Just a reminder that arowan’s stunning album sense data is available as a pre-release. If you buy now, you’ll get two tracks, and when the album drops on June 5th, you’ll get the whole thing! I’ve listened to it, it’s a very good album with excellent sound design and I highly recommend you get it, either now or when its released in June!