<p><p><p><a href=”http://idiom.bandcamp.com/album/the-blue-nature-of-everyday”>The Blue Nature of Everyday by Leonardo Rosado</a></p></p></p> Due to having had my apartment robbed, some very important items were stolen, among them my laptop and my SLR digital camera. As you can imagine this is not only an horrible situation but it also cripples a lot my ability to make music, and run normally the two labels I run (FeedbackLoop Label and Heart and Soul Publishers). Fortunately I had finished my latest album and now I am releasing it so I can buy at least a new laptop to be back to my activities as soon as possible. I am aiming at a value of 2000€, so if you can help me by buying my album I would be very thankful. In addition to buying the digital version of The Blue Nature of Everyday. I’ll be, later in the year/begin 2013, releasing through Heart and Soul a CDr version of it and I will include all people who buy in the thank you credits. Also, if you are very generous on your support (around 20€) you’ll have a CDr copy for free. I’ll be keeping track of the amount of money that was donated to this and I would like to thank you upfront for your help and for spreading the word as much as possible. Yours truly, Leonardo Rosado
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Due to having had my apartment robbed, some very important items were stolen, among them my laptop and my SLR digital camera.

As you can imagine this is not only an horrible situation but it also cripples a lot my ability to make music, and run normally the two labels I run (FeedbackLoop Label and Heart and Soul Publishers).

Fortunately I had finished my latest album and now I am releasing it so I can buy at least a new laptop to be back to my activities as soon as possible.

I am aiming at a value of 2000€, so if you can help me by buying my album I would be very thankful. In addition to buying the digital version of The Blue Nature of Everyday.

I’ll be, later in the year/begin 2013, releasing through Heart and Soul a CDr version of it and I will include all people who buy in the thank you credits. Also, if you are very generous on your support (around 20€) you’ll have a CDr copy for free.

I’ll be keeping track of the amount of money that was donated to this and I would like to thank you upfront for your help and for spreading the word as much as possible.

Yours truly,

Leonardo Rosado

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LEONARDO ROSADO - Soaking Wet released by Rural Colours  (2011) LISTEN/BUY 3”CDr HERE or FREE DOWNLOAD  Taken from the Opaque Glitter sessions the ep Soaking Wet is a short story of lovers missing encounters, living in cheap hotels and empty coffee houses, on a wet rainy day. Soaking wetWith arms like thin branchesWide open to the skyUntil everything washed awayIn the distance Waiting for you to pass byAt exactly the same time and same placeSaying numb goodbyesOver and overAt the same cafes and the same vacant hotels
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LEONARDO ROSADO - Soaking Wet

released by Rural Colours  (2011)

LISTEN/BUY 3”CDr HERE or FREE DOWNLOAD 

Taken from the Opaque Glitter sessions the ep Soaking Wet is a short story of lovers missing encounters, living in cheap hotels and empty coffee houses, on a wet rainy day.

Soaking wet
With arms like thin branches
Wide open to the sky
Until everything washed away
In the distance

Waiting for you to pass by
At exactly the same time and same place
Saying numb goodbyes
Over and over
At the same cafes and the same vacant hotels

LEONARDO ROSADO - Mute Words released by Heart and Soul  (2011) LISTEN/BUY PAPERBACK+CDr HERE Constructed as an oneiric journey through the Unconscious, Mute Words explores the delicate boundary between thoughts and words, a boundary seen through a diaphanous veil that slowly reveal the difficulty to condense elusive emotions into tangible expression. Processed field recordings and fragile drones, augmented at times by dusty pianos or playful metallophones, are all part of a diminutive sonic palette that ebbs and flows on the surface of fragile songs, evoking the hazy memories of forgotten dreams and their shadowy meaning. Guest vocals, courtesy of Barbara de Dominicis, Michelle Seaman and Alicia Merz, are brought in almost imperceptibly, adding further dimension to the floating and ephemeral drone works. Often understated and always deeply personal, Leonardo Rosado’s music is a listening mirror that reflects the inescapable human fragility. Eight tracks, as eight versions of a story that has yet to be fully revealed. Eight poems, as eight different ways of finding the words to express the impossible. Mute Words is the first release on Heart and Soul, Leonardo Rosado’s new imprint, and is quite possibly his most ambitious project to date - a project of expansive beauty. Pascal Savy, October 2011 “…A promising start indeed from a distinctive new label project…” by Nathan Thomas in Fluid Radio“…This is a really well put together album, a realization that dawns on you as you find yourself picking out the melodies between the layer of drones. It’s that focus on soundcraft that really allows this to function so well…” in To Eleven“…L’artwork et le livret qui accompagnent cette sortie sont de très haute facture également et s’associent parfaitement avec les paysages sonores de Mute words…” at Dive into Sun“…Mute Words is a fragile album. Gentle sounds of field recordings … sometimes processed to tiny little flickers intertwine with floating drones, fragments of melodies and distant voices…” by Nils Quak at ResonantStrata“… As the final notes … drift off into memory I feel both fed and hungry. It is this paradox of the initially accessible and the deeply rewarding that I find fascinating…” by Headphonaught“…The music … showcase beautiful landscapes and shimmering vocals…” by Guillermo Escudero in Loop“…Mute Words focuses primarily on mood. There are melodies, some of them quite beautiful in their ability to glisten…” by Beach Sloth“… Leonardo Rosado has set himself a high quality standard for this label! …” Peter Van Cooten in Ambient Blog“…Mute Words really calls into question the subject of our existence… The space in between, perhaps a metaphysical world…” by Alex Stretton in WTYF
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LEONARDO ROSADO - Mute Words

released by Heart and Soul  (2011)

LISTEN/BUY PAPERBACK+CDr HERE

Constructed as an oneiric journey through the Unconscious, Mute Words explores the delicate boundary between thoughts and words, a boundary seen through a diaphanous veil that slowly reveal the difficulty to condense elusive emotions into tangible expression.
Processed field recordings and fragile drones, augmented at times by dusty pianos or playful metallophones, are all part of a diminutive sonic palette that ebbs and flows on the surface of fragile songs, evoking the hazy memories of forgotten dreams and their shadowy meaning. Guest vocals, courtesy of Barbara de Dominicis, Michelle Seaman and Alicia Merz, are brought in almost imperceptibly, adding further dimension to the floating and ephemeral drone works. Often understated and always deeply personal, Leonardo Rosado’s music is a listening mirror that reflects the inescapable human fragility.
Eight tracks, as eight versions of a story that has yet to be fully revealed.
Eight poems, as eight different ways of finding the words to express the impossible.
Mute Words is the first release on Heart and Soul, Leonardo Rosado’s new imprint, and is quite possibly his most ambitious project to date - a project of expansive beauty.

“…A promising start indeed from a distinctive new label project…” by Nathan Thomas in Fluid Radio

“…This is a really well put together album, a realization that dawns on you as you find yourself picking out the melodies between the layer of drones. It’s that focus on soundcraft that really allows this to function so well…” in To Eleven

“…L’artwork et le livret qui accompagnent cette sortie sont de très haute facture également et s’associent parfaitement avec les paysages sonores de Mute words…” at Dive into Sun

“…Mute Words is a fragile album. Gentle sounds of field recordings … sometimes processed to tiny little flickers intertwine with floating drones, fragments of melodies and distant voices…” by Nils Quak at ResonantStrata

“… As the final notes … drift off into memory I feel both fed and hungry. It is this paradox of the initially accessible and the deeply rewarding that I find fascinating…” by Headphonaught

“…The music … showcase beautiful landscapes and shimmering vocals…” by Guillermo Escudero in Loop

“…Mute Words focuses primarily on mood. There are melodies, some of them quite beautiful in their ability to glisten…” by Beach Sloth

“… Leonardo Rosado has set himself a high quality standard for this label! …” Peter Van Cooten in Ambient Blog
“…Mute Words really calls into question the subject of our existence… The space in between, perhaps a metaphysical world…” by Alex Stretton in WTYF

BIRDS OF PASSAGE & LEONARDO ROSADO - Dear and Unfamiliar released by Denovali Records  (2011) LISTEN/BUY VINYL-CD-DIGITAL HERE “It’s late, but the temperature outside seems not to have dropped. Sounds cling like a layer of sweat, smother like a blanket, stick like dust. You listen, still but not relaxed. Lazy, but not comfortably so. Sliding through an almost intolerable heat. Drowsy but agitated at the same time. There’s no way you’re getting to sleep on such a humid night. You are in India, or Indonesia, or somewhere in South-East Asia at least, somewhere hot. And humid. You thought the warmth would be pleasant after another cold northern European winter. It is not. Yet, it’s not exactly unpleasant either – that’s not the right word for it. More like: simultaneously sweet and unsettling. A languid state of emergency; a slow alert. You cannot move for all the solid weight of air pressing down on you. And yet, you cannot sit still. Perhaps this goes some way towards explaining the classical Indian drone – constant movement without moving anywhere, a huge cloud of energy that seems to melt time even as it sharpens it…  Perhaps such music could not have been developed without the state of highly agitated slowness that intense humidity brings. There are hints of classical Indian drone in the music you are listening to now – more classical than those European and American ambient soundscapes that often lay claim to the name ‘drone’. And yet there is a woman’s voice, she sings about Paris and lullabies and kisses, not in Hindi nor Brajbhasha but in English. The voice hangs heavy over fuzzy guitars, synths and manipulated acoustics like a heat haze over the horizon. The lush, warm sounds leave you unsettled and disarmed. They are as vague and intense as a dream, and they will not let you rest easy. “Dear and Unfamiliar” would seem a strikingly appropriate title. Birds of Passage is a psuedonym of New Zealand musician Alicia Merz. For “Dear and Unfamiliar” she has collaborated with Portugal’s Leonardo Rosado, and together they have created an album of dense, unsettling beauty.[…]” - Nathan Thomas for Fluid Radio
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BIRDS OF PASSAGE & LEONARDO ROSADO - Dear and Unfamiliar

released by Denovali Records  (2011)

LISTEN/BUY VINYL-CD-DIGITAL HERE

“It’s late, but the temperature outside seems not to have dropped. Sounds cling like a layer of sweat, smother like a blanket, stick like dust. You listen, still but not relaxed. Lazy, but not comfortably so. Sliding through an almost intolerable heat. Drowsy but agitated at the same time. There’s no way you’re getting to sleep on such a humid night.

You are in India, or Indonesia, or somewhere in South-East Asia at least, somewhere hot. And humid. You thought the warmth would be pleasant after another cold northern European winter. It is not. Yet, it’s not exactly unpleasant either – that’s not the right word for it. More like: simultaneously sweet and unsettling. A languid state of emergency; a slow alert. You cannot move for all the solid weight of air pressing down on you. And yet, you cannot sit still.

Perhaps this goes some way towards explaining the classical Indian drone – constant movement without moving anywhere, a huge cloud of energy that seems to melt time even as it sharpens it…  Perhaps such music could not have been developed without the state of highly agitated slowness that intense humidity brings. There are hints of classical Indian drone in the music you are listening to now – more classical than those European and American ambient soundscapes that often lay claim to the name ‘drone’. And yet there is a woman’s voice, she sings about Paris and lullabies and kisses, not in Hindi nor Brajbhasha but in English. The voice hangs heavy over fuzzy guitars, synths and manipulated acoustics like a heat haze over the horizon. The lush, warm sounds leave you unsettled and disarmed. They are as vague and intense as a dream, and they will not let you rest easy. “Dear and Unfamiliar” would seem a strikingly appropriate title.

Birds of Passage is a psuedonym of New Zealand musician Alicia Merz. For “Dear and Unfamiliar” she has collaborated with Portugal’s Leonardo Rosado, and together they have created an album of dense, unsettling beauty.[…]” - Nathan Thomas for Fluid Radio

LEONARDO ROSADO - Studies on Solitudereleased by Twisted Tree Line  (2011) LISTEN/BUY 3”CDr/BUY DIGITAL HERE Rosado’s first release on Twisted Tree Line, for me, is one of his best works to date. Rosado continues his exploration into detailed sound design and ambience over the course of these five tracks that fit snuggly onto one 3″ CDr. There is a strong sense of aloneness on opener Study on Kindness until some inviting chimes fall into the mix with sparse piano sounds, greeting the listener after three or so minutes of dense and dark sounds. Paying attention tot he sounds unfolding in Rosado’s works is always key to enjoying them, and in Studies on Solitude it is always evident that there are a myriad of things going on a once. The opening of Study on Doubts and Misconceptions presents a lovely ambient haze with what I make out to be soft percussive tones, off tune guitar buried deep underneath, distant piano and several field recordings perhaps of a body of water coming into contact with the hand of a human being. While all this is happening the ambience grows louder and is filled out with more piano to heighten the atmosphere even more. Once again, I believe this to be among his best works to date, the attention to detail is stunning and the tracks themselves are brilliant meditations on the concept of being alone, possibly embracing that and understanding the concept of what it is to be in a state anomie., and then moving on from that. Review at Whatever Takes your Fancy
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LEONARDO ROSADO - Studies on Solitude
released by Twisted Tree Line  (2011)

LISTEN/BUY 3”CDr/BUY DIGITAL HERE

Rosado’s first release on Twisted Tree Line, for me, is one of his best works to date. Rosado continues his exploration into detailed sound design and ambience over the course of these five tracks that fit snuggly onto one 3″ CDr. There is a strong sense of aloneness on opener Study on Kindness until some inviting chimes fall into the mix with sparse piano sounds, greeting the listener after three or so minutes of dense and dark sounds. Paying attention tot he sounds unfolding in Rosado’s works is always key to enjoying them, and in Studies on Solitude it is always evident that there are a myriad of things going on a once. The opening of Study on Doubts and Misconceptions presents a lovely ambient haze with what I make out to be soft percussive tones, off tune guitar buried deep underneath, distant piano and several field recordings perhaps of a body of water coming into contact with the hand of a human being. While all this is happening the ambience grows louder and is filled out with more piano to heighten the atmosphere even more. Once again, I believe this to be among his best works to date, the attention to detail is stunning and the tracks themselves are brilliant meditations on the concept of being alone, possibly embracing that and understanding the concept of what it is to be in a state anomie., and then moving on from that.

Review at Whatever Takes your Fancy

LEONARDO ROSADO - Opaque Glitter released by FeedbackLoop  (2011) LISTEN/DOWNLOAD/BUY CD HERE Leonardo Rosado has already a stable and bright musical career that has captivated many listeners. His latest release, Opaque Glitter, shows a wide range of sensorial, urban and abstract landscapes. In his music there is always a contrast between the harshness of noise and the sweetness of melody that mirrors the intricacies of life itself. The first track in the album, “Leaving and staying”, has the melancholic and distant warmth of an intimacy that takes me back to Andrei Tarkovsky’s onirically strange and transcendentally beautiful atmospheres. These also felt in “It Ends Here”, permeated by the sweetness of a sporadic theremin line and the contrasting harshness of pulsating white noise. In the second track, a delicate vibrato sings itself among the progressively increasing noises, sweeping the listener into the furrows of a multilayered surface. This same graceful fragility is heard in the stringed love that is told in the next track, a love that unfolds itself and that gets more and more tangible amongst the everyday clatter. The hidden melodies of Rosado remind us that the solidity of life provides an escape to those who dare to hear behind. The hypnotic drones in “Dancing and Falling” transport us into a more abstract level, showing an upward pull that is counteracted by the centripetal force of the more discrete sounds that anchor it to the ground, without subtracting any lightness to it. A different lightness, more palpable and oriented towards the wonders of the exterior, is perceived in “The Wind Blowing in my Face”. In the last track in the album, “Soft Like Leaves Falling”, the touch of dry leaves leads us to the melancholic and sweet farewell. In it, the love-vibrating melodies sung in previous tracks are more perceptible and become more real through the metallic puncta that pierce the song. On the whole, Opaque Glitter is a complex and heterogeneously coherent album that shows some of Leonardo Rosado’s best tricks to dazzle the listener. Both old followers of his work and newcomers will enjoy this masterpiece. Besides, I’m sure he will keep filling us all with wonder in his future works. Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen
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LEONARDO ROSADO - Opaque Glitter

released by FeedbackLoop  (2011)

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD/BUY CD HERE

Leonardo Rosado has already a stable and bright musical career that has captivated many listeners. His latest release, Opaque Glitter, shows a wide range of sensorial, urban and abstract landscapes. In his music there is always a contrast between the harshness of noise and the sweetness of melody that mirrors the intricacies of life itself.

The first track in the album, “Leaving and staying”, has the melancholic and distant warmth of an intimacy that takes me back to Andrei Tarkovsky’s onirically strange and transcendentally beautiful atmospheres. These also felt in “It Ends Here”, permeated by the sweetness of a sporadic theremin line and the contrasting harshness of pulsating white noise. In the second track, a delicate vibrato sings itself among the progressively increasing noises, sweeping the listener into the furrows of a multilayered surface. This same graceful fragility is heard in the stringed love that is told in the next track, a love that unfolds itself and that gets more and more tangible amongst the everyday clatter. The hidden melodies of Rosado remind us that the solidity of life provides an escape to those who dare to hear behind. The hypnotic drones in “Dancing and Falling” transport us into a more abstract level, showing an upward pull that is counteracted by the centripetal force of the more discrete sounds that anchor it to the ground, without subtracting any lightness to it. A different lightness, more palpable and oriented towards the wonders of the exterior, is perceived in “The Wind Blowing in my Face”. In the last track in the album, “Soft Like Leaves Falling”, the touch of dry leaves leads us to the melancholic and sweet farewell. In it, the love-vibrating melodies sung in previous tracks are more perceptible and become more real through the metallic puncta that pierce the song.

On the whole, Opaque Glitter is a complex and heterogeneously coherent album that shows some of Leonardo Rosado’s best tricks to dazzle the listener. Both old followers of his work and newcomers will enjoy this masterpiece. Besides, I’m sure he will keep filling us all with wonder in his future works.

Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen

LEONARDO ROSADO - Dream On released by AudioGourmet (2011) LISTEN/DOWNLOAD HERE Next on Audio Gourmet we welcome aboard Leonardo Rosado, an artist and curator of the Feedback Loop netlabel. Aside from running Feedback Loop, Leonardo’s main musical focus explores the collision between sound, poetry and everyday life by using automatic expressions that he likes to call ‘wordsoundscapes’. The construction of his music pieces expose daily life happenings that are individual and at the same time universal; it has a strong sense of suggesting a pause to think about our actions and our surroundings. Words and sounds have different meanings depending on the listener, but only if they take the time to delve into the complexity of their own stimuli. His past discography includes work released on the likes of his own Feedback Loop label as well as Test Tube, Relaxed Machinery, Public Spaces Lab, XS Records and Clinical Archives In addition to the sounds you can hear in ‘Dream On’, here is a collection of short poems for each track that offering an insight into the concept behind this project: REBUILDING THE DREAM here I am trying to fit old memories in new clothing forcing my rebirth DREAM ON feeling the heartbeat like a new born seeing through belly skin WIPED OUT when I hear that ringing I know that nothing will be left of me nothing worth singing about SLEEPLESS MURMUR turning around in bed counting sheep closing the eyes in darkness. nothing will stop the unrest the murmur of change
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LEONARDO ROSADO - Dream On

released by AudioGourmet (2011)

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD HERE

Next on Audio Gourmet we welcome aboard Leonardo Rosado, an artist and curator of the Feedback Loop netlabel. Aside from running Feedback Loop, Leonardo’s main musical focus explores the collision between sound, poetry and everyday life by using automatic expressions that he likes to call ‘wordsoundscapes’. The construction of his music pieces expose daily life happenings that are individual and at the same time universal; it has a strong sense of suggesting a pause to think about our actions and our surroundings. Words and sounds have different meanings depending on the listener, but only if they take the time to delve into the complexity of their own stimuli.

His past discography includes work released on the likes of his own Feedback Loop label as well as Test Tube, Relaxed Machinery, Public Spaces Lab, XS Records and Clinical Archives

In addition to the sounds you can hear in ‘Dream On’, here is a collection of short poems for each track that offering an insight into the concept behind this project:

REBUILDING THE DREAM here I am trying to fit old memories in new clothing forcing my rebirth

DREAM ON feeling the heartbeat like a new born seeing through belly skin

WIPED OUT when I hear that ringing I know that nothing will be left of me nothing worth singing about

SLEEPLESS MURMUR turning around in bed counting sheep closing the eyes in darkness. nothing will stop the unrest the murmur of change

LEONARDO ROSADO - for rreleased by relaxed Machinery (2010)LISTEN/BUY HERE  The title ‘for r’ would suggest a work being dedicated to something or someone and on the surface it appears to be a vague and ambiguous bestowment. Leonardo Rosado chooses not to define what or who ‘r’ may be, however, after spending much time with the three tracks contained within I have come to love the mystery that the title embodies. Listening to the sounds within is awe inspiring and thus Rosado’s patience while constructing these brooding, spacious and fluid pieces is to be praised. A spectrum of emotions flow from the music conjuring childlike imagery with echoing bells, deep unease via augmented drones and bass frequencies, and a wonderful sense of acceptance through the warmth and fragility of the sounds. Rosado’s strength is his undeniable sense of depth, combining organic sounds of water, experimental percussion, shuffling and friction with processed and controlled drones all culminating in a wonderfully balanced form. The synthesis of nature and technology present here is what makes these recordings so rewarding time and time again. Regardless of the ambiguity the title presents, Leonardo Rosado makes a poignant dedication, a dedication that not only celebrates the warmth in life and the beauty we are given, but also the darkness, the unpredictability and the ugly facets of existence. Alex Stretton
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LEONARDO ROSADO - for r
released by relaxed Machinery (2010)
LISTEN/BUY HERE 

The title ‘for r’ would suggest a work being dedicated to something or someone and on the surface it appears to be a vague and ambiguous bestowment. Leonardo Rosado chooses not to define what or who ‘r’ may be, however, after spending much time with the three tracks contained within I have come to love the mystery that the title embodies.

Listening to the sounds within is awe inspiring and thus Rosado’s patience while constructing these brooding, spacious and fluid pieces is to be praised. A spectrum of emotions flow from the music conjuring childlike imagery with echoing bells, deep unease via augmented drones and bass frequencies, and a wonderful sense of acceptance through the warmth and fragility of the sounds.

Rosado’s strength is his undeniable sense of depth, combining organic sounds of water, experimental percussion, shuffling and friction with processed and controlled drones all culminating in a wonderfully balanced form. The synthesis of nature and technology present here is what makes these recordings so rewarding time and time again.

Regardless of the ambiguity the title presents, Leonardo Rosado makes a poignant dedication, a dedication that not only celebrates the warmth in life and the beauty we are given, but also the darkness, the unpredictability and the ugly facets of existence.

Alex Stretton

ADAM WILLIAMS & LEONARDO ROSADO - TAKE THIS LONGINGreleased by FeedbackLoop Label (2010)FREE DOWNLOAD The Art of Listening Communication is not only the art of talking. It also defines the art of listening. When it comes to music, a perfect arrangement is always like a perfect communication. Between the artist and his music. Between the bass and the drums. Between the head and the heart. And between the music and its listener. Adam Williams and Leonardo Rosado aka Subterminal decided to communicate. And they chose the most conclusive language existing in this universe: They started a dialogue via their music using the tongue of the piano and electronics. And it turns out they’re great communicators, as they both know the art of listening. 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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ADAM WILLIAMS & LEONARDO ROSADO - TAKE THIS LONGING
released by FeedbackLoop Label (2010)
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The Art of Listening

Communication is not only the art of talking. It also defines the art of listening. When it comes to music, a perfect arrangement is always like a perfect communication. Between the artist and his music. Between the bass and the drums. Between the head and the heart. And between the music and its listener.

Adam Williams and Leonardo Rosado aka Subterminal decided to communicate. And they chose the most conclusive language existing in this universe: They started a dialogue via their music using the tongue of the piano and electronics. And it turns out they’re great communicators, as they both know the art of listening.

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

SUBTERMINAL - BRIGHT DAWN SKETCHESreleased at PublicSpaces Lab netlabel (2010)FREE DOWNLOAD “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. 1. A Vision Inspired by a trip to Johannesburg in 2002, where these huge avenues were completely empty, and at night there were no lights in the 20 floors buildings. It felt like solitude could be touched 2. Awakenings Another lazy awakening that stretches out from the factories’ smog and awakes gentle machines that start working, and all around dust in the air. 3. Wailing sirens The moods in the streets, like sirens wailing at 6am, oppressed by traffic lights. 4. Reflected sunbeams Explore the ocean and the dawn, waking up slowly and bright. Being lazy. Textures that evolve, getting close to unfinished melodies, or almost rhythms like waves crashing on the shore, and sunbeams reflected in the clouds. This perceived gentle chaos unfolding, between laziness and melancholy. Words last like snowflakes in summer.
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SUBTERMINAL - BRIGHT DAWN SKETCHES
released at PublicSpaces Lab netlabel (2010)
FREE DOWNLOAD

“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.

1. A Vision Inspired by a trip to Johannesburg in 2002, where these huge avenues were completely empty, and at night there were no lights in the 20 floors buildings. It felt like solitude could be touched

2. Awakenings Another lazy awakening that stretches out from the factories’ smog and awakes gentle machines that start working, and all around dust in the air.

3. Wailing sirens The moods in the streets, like sirens wailing at 6am, oppressed by traffic lights.

4. Reflected sunbeams Explore the ocean and the dawn, waking up slowly and bright. Being lazy. Textures that evolve, getting close to unfinished melodies, or almost rhythms like waves crashing on the shore, and sunbeams reflected in the clouds. This perceived gentle chaos unfolding, between laziness and melancholy. Words last like snowflakes in summer.