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ARTIST: Alfredo Costa Monteiro
TITLE: Nocturnality FORMAT: CD CATALOGUE NUMBER: trome011 Meditative drone piece composed of percussion and no-input mixer from acclaimed sound artist |
TRACKLISTING
Nocturnality
CREDITS
Percussion and electronics by Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Recorded in March 2020 in Barcelona
Pictures and artwork by Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Design by Andrew Wild
Thanks to Pilar Subira
Mastered by Fraser McGowan
RELEASE DETAILS
Gatefold card sleeve with four page booklet, CD with metallic print.
Duration: 39:40
CD ARTWORK
REVIEWS:
Here we have no stranger to these pages, even when, to be honest, I don't always know too much about the man and his work. He works with a wide range of instruments, and this time it is percussion instruments and a no-input mixing desk. The latter is fancy wording for 'feedback'. Connect the headphone output to the first channel and open it up gentle. Then you know what I mean. This 'technique' is mainly used to generate long-form sounds (I know only very few people use it rhythmically). Monteiro chooses a great, non-existing word for his piece of music and one that fits the piece very well. The percussion here is cymbals. I would think, with his plays gently but firmly. And slowly, so that sound dies out before the next hit comes. I don't know how many of these he's using here or how many variations he uses to strike them, but he does a great job. The no-input mixing desk provides off and on an excellent texture for these sounds. Sometimes piercingly high, but there is an excellent nocturnal atmosphere in this music. Monteiro plays it solemnly, but you never have the impression of listening to music for a ritual. There is nothing gothic about Montero's music, and that is a good thing. Over the forty minutes this piece lasts, Monteiro repeats sounds and phrases, but I never had the impression he was in any way repeating himself. He starts quietly, then slowly expands and ends on a similar note as he started, with at times more no-input in the second half than in the first half, but maybe my perception was all blurry by that time. I found this a wonderful, beautiful CD, even when I heard it most of the time at full, bright daylight. No wolf hours for the wicked at work.
- Vital Weekly
Alfredo Costa Monteiro plays percussion and electronics on the single-track, 40’ Nocturnality.
Metal percussion sounds like gong rings, singing into silence. No-input feedback ululates fishtails and oscillates. A snarling swell ambiguously metallic and/or electronic interposes. Their sequences and the density of their soundings shift but percussion and feedback each emit resonant pulses that interact. Beatings begin breeching hearing and glimmer in the ether seemingly independently from any other sounding. An angelic choir for cymbals’ bells. I don’t know any specifics but it feels like play, a real-time study of complex harmonic behaviors from among the simplest means.
- Keith Prosk, Harmonic Series
Excellent new work from Alfredo Costa Monteiro, 'Nocturnality' on Trome Records, a piece for percussion (metals) and electronics, meditative and probing, very immersive. - Brian Olewnick
Here we have no stranger to these pages, even when, to be honest, I don't always know too much about the man and his work. He works with a wide range of instruments, and this time it is percussion instruments and a no-input mixing desk. The latter is fancy wording for 'feedback'. Connect the headphone output to the first channel and open it up gentle. Then you know what I mean. This 'technique' is mainly used to generate long-form sounds (I know only very few people use it rhythmically). Monteiro chooses a great, non-existing word for his piece of music and one that fits the piece very well. The percussion here is cymbals. I would think, with his plays gently but firmly. And slowly, so that sound dies out before the next hit comes. I don't know how many of these he's using here or how many variations he uses to strike them, but he does a great job. The no-input mixing desk provides off and on an excellent texture for these sounds. Sometimes piercingly high, but there is an excellent nocturnal atmosphere in this music. Monteiro plays it solemnly, but you never have the impression of listening to music for a ritual. There is nothing gothic about Montero's music, and that is a good thing. Over the forty minutes this piece lasts, Monteiro repeats sounds and phrases, but I never had the impression he was in any way repeating himself. He starts quietly, then slowly expands and ends on a similar note as he started, with at times more no-input in the second half than in the first half, but maybe my perception was all blurry by that time. I found this a wonderful, beautiful CD, even when I heard it most of the time at full, bright daylight. No wolf hours for the wicked at work.
- Vital Weekly
Alfredo Costa Monteiro plays percussion and electronics on the single-track, 40’ Nocturnality.
Metal percussion sounds like gong rings, singing into silence. No-input feedback ululates fishtails and oscillates. A snarling swell ambiguously metallic and/or electronic interposes. Their sequences and the density of their soundings shift but percussion and feedback each emit resonant pulses that interact. Beatings begin breeching hearing and glimmer in the ether seemingly independently from any other sounding. An angelic choir for cymbals’ bells. I don’t know any specifics but it feels like play, a real-time study of complex harmonic behaviors from among the simplest means.
- Keith Prosk, Harmonic Series
Excellent new work from Alfredo Costa Monteiro, 'Nocturnality' on Trome Records, a piece for percussion (metals) and electronics, meditative and probing, very immersive. - Brian Olewnick