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: WOLVENNEST
Album: Temple (2020)
Track: Alecto (09:07)
Band: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
Album: Companion Rises (2020)
Track: Haunted and Known (05:28)
Band: ILIKETRAINS
Album: Elegies to Lessons Learnt (2007)
Track: We Go Hunting (03:25)
Back in early 2008 I had the pleasure of being in PR meetings with the English band while working for a London based fashion brand. Fair to say that at the time I had all but lost my love for post-rock à la Mogwai or Explosions in the Sky... and interest in the genre was anchored solely on Godspeed You! Black Emperor or This Will Destroy You.. During those times I was into the more challenging sonic scapes of a then formidable rise in sludge and other atmospheric extremes (think Boris, Nadja, A Storm of Light, Russian Circles...) and I just couldn't touch it. But when listening to this album for the first time, it hit me that the band sounded like one of my all time favourite bands of the 80's: And Also The Trees. And I gave in.
Band: CS + KREME
Album: Snoopy (2020)
Track: Time is a Bozo (04:18)
Band: A HAWK AND A HACKSAW
Album: S/T (2002)
Track: A Hawk and a Hacksaw (06:58)
Band: NUMUN
Album: Voyage au Soleil (2020)
Track: Tranquility Base (08:21)
Band: WASTE OF SPACE ORCHESTRA
Album: Syntheosis (2019)
Track: The Shamanic vision (04:30)
Band: PSYCHIC TV
Album: Unclean 12'' (1984)
Track: Unclean (09:41)
Band: SWANS
Album: The Seer (2012)
Track: Lunacy (06:09)
Band: BARN OWL
Album: The Conjurer (2009)
Track: Procession of Goden Bones (3:51)
Band: EARTH
Album: Hibernaculum (2007)
Track: Ouroboros is Broken (08:17)
Band: PELICAN
Album: City of Eches (2007)
Track: City of Echoes (07:05)