Journal
Started when the first pandemic confinement hit, this is content that celebrates my past and informs a fresh vision forward. I have a fascination for experimental and challenging music and use it to inspire my creativity and many aspects of my daily drifts, so music does take center stage here. Glad if it resonates with you in some way and you discover something new here, in which case you should explore more and support the artists. Curated by Jorge Sampaio.

Band: RUSSIAN CIRCLES
Album: Blood Year (2019)
Track: Sinaia (07:30)

Band: OLD MAN GLOOM
Album: Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning (2020)
Track: Final Defeat (11:43)

Band: NADJA
Album: Dagdrom (2012)
Track: Falling out of your Head (12:44)
Nadja's "rock" album, featuring live drums courtesy of Mac McNeilly from The Jesus Lizard. Mastered by James Plotkin - this is taken from the album's bandcamp page. While it is one of the most "accessible" recordings by the ever prolific Nadja (and Aidan Baker, one of its founders as solo) - and one of my favourites alongside 'Guilted by the Sun' and 'Touched' - it's so much more than "rock": a more spacious, sludgey rock collection of songs, taking its time... somewhere in between 5ive and Boris (around that time).

Band: SUMAC
Album: Two Beasts (2020)
Track: Two Beasts (edit) (14:17)

Band: TERRA TENEBROSA
Album: The Purging (2013)
Track: The Redeeming Teratoma + The Compression Chamber (06:29)

Band: RED HARVEST
Album: A Greater Darkness (2007)
Track: Hole in Me (6:20)

Band: BORIS
Album: Dear (2017)
Track: The Power (07:41)

Band: PALEHORSE
Album: Looking Wet in Public (2016)
Track: The Shower (8:12)

Band: THE BODY
Album: All the Waters of the Earth turn to Blood (2010)
Track: Even the Saints knew their hour of Failure and Loss (05:50)

Band: MAUDLIN OF THE WELL
Album: Bath (2001)
Track: They aren't all Beautiful (05:36)

Band: YEAR OF NO LIGHT
Album: Ausselrwelt (2010)
Track: Abbesse (13:12)

Band: OLD MAN GLOOM
Album: Seminar IX: Darkness of Being (2020)
Track: Procession of the Wounded (04:05)

Band: GODFLESH
Album: Hymns (2001)
Track: Vampires (06:28)

Band: CULT OF LUNA
Album: A Dawn to Fear (2019)
Track: The Silent Man (10:36)

Band: ALUK TODOLO
Album: Occult Rock (2012)
Track: Occult Rock I (10:13)

Band: THE BODY
Album: No One Deserves Happiness (2016)
Track: Prescience (07:23)