Recorded during a residency in Tenerife powered by Keroxen Festival and Discrepant back in 2020—amidst the pandemic, no less—, the duo of Carlos Godinho and Mestre André return after their "Mãe D'Água" debut on Sucata Tapes and an entry on Keroxen's
Aquapelago Series through a split with tropical druids
Lagoss.
Mostly captured in performance through a quadraphonic system placed inside a huge disused fuel tank, with a few tracks recorded out in the open throughout the island, 'Lava Love' evokes the tectonic shifts and motions inherent in their title in 13 tracks.
Based around Godinho's percussive arsenal, from found objects to instruments from all sorts of cartographies, and André's electronic processing, each of these expositions is a point in a map that is created between the island's concrete and fictional existence, discarding any superficial overdubs and crescendos, to focus on the balming and transporting properties of sound itself. From stripped down vignettes like 'Bajamar I' & 'II', 'Chacho' or 'Tangana I' to hypnotic tapestries that confuse the real and imagined like 'Haha No!' or 'La Gomera', Banha da Cobra conjure a collective dream of the island.
All tracks performed and recorded by Banha da Cobra in a quadraphonic system inside an enormous fuel tank (Espacio Cultural El Tanque, Santa Cruz de Tenerife), except Bajamar I and II (recorded outdoors at cantonera de Bajamar, with Lagoss), Taganana I and II (recorded outdoors at Playa de Almáciga) and El Guachinche de Los Realejos (recorded outdoors at Playa de Castro, with Lagoss).
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).
