[tube220] Subterminal - Bitstreams

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[FbL003] adam williams & leonardo rosado - take this longing

Attracted to subtle and minimal arrangements, they develop the most interesting musical dialogue on their joint ep "Take This Longing". While Williams usually holds the talk with cautious notes and chords, Rosado illustrates these fine contours with his discrete electronic sounds and field recordings. Both respond to one another, closely observing every musical move to be ready for the next answers and the right questions.

"Take This Longing" invites you to spy this dialogue. And you consequently take part in it - as listening is part of the art of communicating.

Thomas L. Raukamp

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[PS017] Subterminal – Bright Dawn Sketches

Bright dawn sketches is an ambient album focused on exploring different environments, from urban solitude, sirens crying, ocean waves crashing in the shores and sunbeams reflected in the clouds. Some instruments were used (a crackle box and a sruti box), some composition techniques were also used (for example, minimalism and time stretching) as well as some software (iphone) and voice. All the tracks contained in this release were made with some concepts in mind.

Art by Fernando Mateus

Release Enconding and Post Production Jordi Urriaque @ The Lab

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[FLC01] various artists - MANIFESTO

DOWNLOAD | MUSIC . FRONT COVER . BACK COVER . LINER NOTES

mastering by Tiago Morgado

" FeedbackLoop label proudly presents its MANIFESTO not with words but with music, and its available for free download. The artists in this compilation all share a passion for experimental and emotional feelings, delivering a collection of ambiances and moods that hopefully you'll enjoy.

There is no restriction to genres only a passion for timeless music. I tried to gift listeners with some of the best music out there in the world, and I hope that after you listen to this countless times you will get back to the artists and get to know them better and support them. "

Leonardo Rosado

ARTISTS | NICK R 61 . BIRDS OF PASSAGE . DNP X-CITER . ELISA LUU . KARLHEINZ ESSL . PINTAIL . CAGE CABARRETT . DAILY MISCONCEPTIONS . HATORI YUMI . VITOR RUA . SUBTERMINAL . JORGE NUNES . AALDO . TREESMOVETHEMOST . JEDNOTA feat. WOOD NYMPH

FeedbackLoop Label

Caros amigos,

venho desta forma apresentar-vos o meu mais recente projecto FeedbackLoop Label. Uma editora que pretendo seja um complemento às minhas actividades na XS Records [pt netlabel] e que se pode considerar também uma netlabel, mas com um funcionamento um pouco diferente. Assim, pretendo com a FeedbackLoop Label editar 3-4 edições por ano no máximo, exclusivamente álbuns, e apenas com licença de Creative Commons. A escolha dos álbuns a editar é subjectiva, mas tem de ser música que resista a mais do que 2 ou 3 edições fortuitas. Quero com a FeedbackLoop label fazer um contraponto à edição de música desenfreada que não permite o seu conveniente usufruto.

A forma de funcionamento terá 3 fases:
1- edição de um ep/single extraído do álbum que será imediatamente disponibilizado para download gratuito e em simultâneo o álbum na íntegra estará em pré escuta.
2- é dada oportunidade aos ouvintes de oferecer donativos durante os 3 meses seguintes para que o álbum em pré escuta possa ficar disponível para download gratuito (para tal será usado o serviço SellYourRights - http://www.sellyourrights.com/) nesta fase um montante mínimo de donativos estará estipulado e só depois desse ser atingido é que o álbum ficará disponível para download (os donativos serão devolvidos caso o limite não seja atingido). Acabado o tempo limite a FeedbackLoop em conjunto com o artista com os direitos sobre a sua obra reservam-se no direito de decidir sobre o destino a dar ao álbum em causa.
3- caso haja donativos será editada uma série limitada de cd's

O objectivo deste processo é maximizar o prazer dos intervenientes. Por um lado os ouvintes terão sempre acesso a parte da obra de forma gratuita e a possibilidade de ajudar o artista a difundir a sua música, porque ao efectuar donativo estará a possibilitar a edição de um objecto físico (que infelizmente para um circuito de rádios e revistas ainda se afigura como o único meio de divulgação possível). Por outro lado, o artista dá-se a conhecer aos seus ouvintes atraves dos canais de uma "netlabel" e ao mesmo tempo poderá vir a ususfruir de uma extensão da divulgação aos canais mais convencionais do meio musical.

Para mais detalhes consultem o site da editora: http://feedbacklooplabel.blogspot.com/ e/ou o http://www.myspace.com/feedbacklooplabel

Para dar início à editora coloquei como edição 0 o álbum de Subterminal, chamado Bitstreams e como já tinha sido disponibilizado o ep Filled With Light disponibilizei um advance single - FOR THE LAST TIME que pode ser descarregado gratuitamente nos sites que referi.

Desde já agradeço toda a atenção disponibilizada. Gostaria também de vos pedir para se possível divulgarem junto dos vossos contactos este novo projecto. Adicionalmente, aguardo também (se assim o desejarem) o envio de demos para edição na FeedbackLoop label.

[xs-63] subterminal - filled with light

With eyes wide open.
Like in a reawakening. A strange awake that repeats itself every night; every passing day, or so it seems. Like a virtual experience; or maybe not. Maybe it is just a normal but scary awakening. ... "Filled With Light".

"Filled With Light" awakens us in two different ways. The first, because it is only an EP which is part of an album yet to be released; the second, because in that album, poetry, a core element always present in Subterminal's work, makes an eulogy to digital life. "Filled With Light" is like a trailer of a full movie that we anticipate; a summary with a beginning middle and end. For now, the awakening is what matters most and "Filled With Light" awakes; awakes us.

In that slow awake, "With You" introduces us to the theme, to the electronic principle that conducts the EP. However, "Filled With Light" is the track that captures our attention; because of the movement; the layers of sound; the excellent alto viola played by Tiago Morgado. There is a slight techno-industrial mood coloring Leonardo Rosado's words, the man behind Subterminal. At last, "For the First Time" definitely introduces us to what's coming. A confrontation with a different reality; or, an almost-reality. "For the First Time" introduces us to a confrontation between poetry and technology, created by dense sound ambiences, images, differing in rhythm and form. They are different lines of the same life; parallel or perpendicular. The exhaustion of conflict.

"Filled With Light" was composed and played almost entirely with an iPhone, with some extra sounds from other objects. After "Alumina" and "Insight", released in 2009, the reawakening of Subterminal is of happiness. "Filled With Light" is a great step forward when comparing with prior releases, which leads to the expectation of a very interesting conceptual album. Coupled with the refinement of his personal electronic universe, the author added a better voice treatment. The production of the EP was made by Tiago Morgado.

... to keep the eyes wide open.

Press Review by Rui Dinis, A Trompa


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release date: 03/08/2009

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contact: blog & myspace

cover art: back & front

release de subterminal (aka leonardo rosado) na clinical archives

Venho por este meio anunciar a release de subterminal (aka leonardo rosado), na clinical archives, na qual tive o prazer de colaborar no tema frozen tide, a tocar viola d'arco. intitulada insight, trata-se de uma reflexão sobre o paradoxo da causa-efeito. Trata-se de um álbum assumidamente trip-hop com influências de toda uma série de músicos e projectos maioratariamente alemães, de trip hop, idm, dark ambient, industrial e spoken word, de destacar agf, exurban, adamned.age, die minimalistn, einsturzende neubauten, coil, swans, alva noto, throbbing gristle, etc.

Segue abaixo a press review e o material que está no blog da clinical:

Artist: Subterminal
Title: Insight
#ca257
Date: 2009-05-08
Keywords: electronica; avant-garde; cinematic; poetic; other
Tracklist:
01 - Youth Without Youth - 8:23 (320 kbps
02 - Let There Be Light - 5:14 (320 kbps)
03 - Frozen Tide - 6:26 (320 kbps)
04 - Detuned Buzz - 5:55 (320 kbps)

cover front
booklet
cover back
disk label image
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The premise of the album Insight comes from a possible definition of INSIGHT - An insight is the derivation of a rule which links cause with effect. The mind is a model of the universe built up from insights. - Based on this, Insight was composed using a random process of forward expansion of musical structures, establishing an equilibrium state and jumping to new territory, a different direction than the previous one, leading to insights on different musical styles. It starts with an approach to ambiance, changes to nujazz structures, continues the journey through contemporary music (with the help of Tiago Morgado playing Alto Viola in Track 3) and finishes with an approach to trip hop. The message delivered by the album, the explosion of communication technologies and their reflection on the way we interact with each other, the insights allowed by science and its contradictions.

Suterminal is the expression of one person with its main focus on exploring the collision between soundscapes and poetry, using automatic expression based on science - WORDSOUNDSCAPES. The automata is used on the construction of words/poems and sounds/music that jointly deliver messages to the society towards activities of REFLECTION. Words and sounds have different meanings, depending on its listener, but only if he/she takes sometime to dwelve in the complexity of him/herself stimulated.

Contact:
http://sbtrmnl.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/sbtrmnl