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Artist: ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO
Title: Anatomy of Inner Place
Format: CD
Label: Monotype
Rated: *****
Four untitled tracks and a sober grey on black layout, and one is lead to think of Francisco López... and the thought wouldn't be entirely out of place. Renowned improviser Costa Monteiro (Cremaster, I Treni Inerti, etc.) explores the hidden sonic world of household objects, with sombre macroscopies made of arranged but untreated field recordings. With López, he shares a similar fascination for volume dynamics and juxtapositions, which is present in all of the tracks: low hums (air passing through pipes? A fridge motor?) are streaked, here and there, by piercing noises and feedback, eventually dissolving in deep drones themselves (track 4). While experiments of this kind could well leave the listener detached and eventually bored, Costa Monteiro apparently manages to raise magnetic storms and tectonic shifts from the most common and harmless objects surrounding us: home is where the hurt is.


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