| September 2010 news
September 25, 2010
MIND YOUR OWN BUDDHISM
• tube'|218 - He Ping De Yong Shi - Anguksa
«Anguksa is a buddhist temple located in North Korea.
Anguksa is also a short album by musician Miguel Gonçalves that tries to be his very own and very personal interpretation of 'buddhism' as a religious and mystic culture to which the artist feels very connected to, without being a follower of any kind.
Anguksa is filled with mantras, chants and drones of various types (sound based and voice based), and it is an attempt
to resample/rebuild the artists' own vision of buddhism, one that is related and influenced by the most remote and obscure kind of this culture. Miguel took examples from several variations of buddhism to build this work, mainly North Korea, Sri Lanka and Nepal's.
Highly meditative/numbing-inducing work. Please don't listen while driving or operating heavy machinery. You have been warned.
All seven tracks are named after the seven gods of fortune, according to japanese mithology.»
- Pedro Leitão
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September 05, 2010
VOYAGE AU CENTRE DE LA TERRE
• tube'|217 - David Fungi - Lost Lands
«Italian musician David Fungi returns to test tube with an old and curious recording. 'Lost Lands' was recorded nearly 10 years ago in an unusual place for doing so: a cave. Valganna, in Italy, has a series of caves well known for its acoustics, but David chose to record there not only because of that but also because a cave is a mystical an mythological place, believed to be a passage to unknown words, or unknown universes... Jules Verne, the science fiction pioneer, dreamed of it and wrote about it.
Essentially, 'Lost Lands' is an experimental piece which travels between a handful of different 'ambiances', from drone to calm and meditative based sequences, and near its end you can even feel a short sprout of soft clicks and cuts. This an excellent piece of great experimental music.»
- Pedro Leitão
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