Way Out - New Music From Portugal

Um leitor regular deste espaço, Jorge Silva, chamou-me a atenção para um blogue estrangeiro vocacionado para a divulgação da música dita alternativa intitulado The Things on the Doorstep. O autor desse blogue faz recensões críticas a discos e artistas de vários países, entre os quais Portugal. Neste post analiza uma compilação sobre nova música portuguesa na qual participei com uma música. Trata-se da compilação "Way Out: New Music From Portugal Vol. 2", que compilou vários artistas portugueses ligados às tendências estéticas mais experimentais (electrónica, sound-art, improvisada, electroacústica...). Nunca foi minha intenção aproveitar este espaço como veículo para promover o meu trabalho criativo, mas não posso deixar de me sentir particularmente surpreendido pelo nível de conhecimento revelado sobre o meu trabalho, assim como uma certa lisonja pela análise que faz do mesmo:

Victor Afonso aka Kubik is a portuguese musician living in Guarda, a city lying near Serra da Estrela (Star Mountain) at some 1000 meters above the sea level. He has been releasing music under the name Kubik (2 albums) as well as in many other projects. Oblique Musique and Metamorphosia albums recorded as Kubik showed up a musician deeply inspired by cinema and also by a great variety of music, from eastern europe folk to contemporary drumnbass. This alloy allowed Kubik to develop a very personalized and surrealistic sound, which defies the listener imagination with a wave of references sequenced in a way that take shape in the form of musical pieces. Infinite Territory is his new release. It is a departure from earlier works, because here Victor Afonso decided to explore electronic music more close to the IDM genre. It is obvious from Infinite Territory that musicians like Amon Tobin or Aphex Twin play an important role as sources of inspiration. This EP is very well balanced between ambient soundscapes and bursts of drillnbass, showing Kubik at the maximum of his skills and inspiration. From phantasmagorical pieces like Bona Fide, to kinetically unstable tracks like Infernis, Plus Ultra and the surrealistic Non Hilum (perhaps the track more related with his previous works), Kubik shows up his personal view of what electronic music (or IDM) can be, with a great capability to create images in the mind of the listener, rather than being purely another kind of dance music. Infinite Territory is therefore a kind of a soundtrack of a lost science-fiction movie, lost in the outskirts of the galaxy (or, more precisely, of the mind), exploring lost territories and lost spirals that liewithin the more pristine forces of nature.

www.myspace.com/metamorphosia