Lagoss (comprised of Tenerife based veteran producers Gonçalo F. Cardoso, Mladen Kurajica and Daniel García) and Banha da Cobra (Lisbon-based musicians Mestre André and Carlos Godinho) introduce the first volume on the "Aquapelagos" series—a collection of split LPs where selected artists offer their own take into water surrounded cultures and communities.
After the initial release of the Anthology compilation
Aquapelago in 2022 this first volume opens up the series with a sound journey inspired by the majestic and sometime furious Atlantic Ocean. The music was recorded throughout special artists residencies held during the Keroxen Festival in 2020 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife where throughout a week each band recorded their own free vision of an aquapelagic Atlantic culture. Philip Hayward, the Australian researcher who coined the term Aquapelago also joins the proceedings with extensive sleeve notes.
Side 1 is provided by Lagoss—a band comprised of Tenerife based veteran producers, Gonçalo F. Cardoso, Mladen Kurajica and Daniel García while Side 2 is provided by Banha da Cobra, comprising Lisbon-based musicians Mestre André and Carlos Godinho. Both ensembles have addressed aquatic themes in their prior work, Lagoss having represented phantom islands on a series of vivid cameo tracks released as Imaginary Island Music Volume 1 (Discrepant, 2020) and Banha da Cobra having staged a performance within the Mãe D'Água reservoir in Lisbon in 2018, drawing on recordings of place and objects within it to conjure the liquid history of the city.
Banha Da Cobra is a project of Lisbon-based artists Mestre André (laptop) and Carlos Godinho (objects). Born from a stream of research and electroacoustic sound intervention, Banha da Cobra starts from an imaginary sonic place of handcrafted, ritualistic and traditional activities and landscapes. The compositions are made as sound ruins, based on an ecology between the sustainability of the sound nature of the found—structures, places, objects, etc.—and their appropriation and transformation. The collecting inherent in this project is of an archaeological character, complemented with processes of alchemical manipulation like musical creation in real time.
See also
O Morto (Mestre André).
