Alfredo Costa Monteiro - Transient Spaces as Impermanent Lines
Are there words for a composition formed around tumultuous sonic energy, crystalline sounds without destination or documentation? Short motifs floating in aural space, their dimensional doorways clamor with forceful motion. Listeners carom through Transient Spaces as Impermanent Lines. A Pachinko ball falling with the slightest amount of gravity, defying physics to sometimes move towards it's origin instead of away. Alfredo Costa Monteiro has cohesively composed an aural landscape from broken glass and crumbled concrete. The building material of modern civilization with the associated urban soundscape sometimes heard as sonic memories. Conscious saturates with extrinsic processing but the sounds within are also beautifully patient. Silent moments, long empty space droning with only the crunch of a footstep. Then quiet again until energy explodes in defined slow motion. All the time lost in the labyrinth Alfredo Costa Monteiro has most articulately created.
Released on the label Sublime Retreat from Wrocław, Poland. Gorgeous packaging with each glass mastered compact disc enclosed in both heavy outer jacket and inner sleeve. Alfredo Costa Monteiro is based in Barcelona, Spain. He is playing at the 20th OUT.FEST in Barreiro, Portugal on October 2nd. This is also the second release for Alfredo Costa Monteiro on the Sublime Retreat label. The first, titled Invisible Light was released in 2020 and is currently sold out in physical form.
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