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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" and "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, 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 are Mestre André and Carlos Godinho. Recorded by Jorge Lozano. Mixed by Mestre André. Mastered by Dani Tupper. Cover photography by Nestor Torrens. Cover design by Óscar Silva.
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SUC 025CS
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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. On Mãe D'Água, Banha da Cobra present a live recording of their concert/performance on a four by four channel system at Mãe d'Água, recorded on the 21st of September, 2018 within the context of the Lisboa Soa festival. Mãe D'Água (Mother of Water) is an old water reservoir located in the center of Lisbon; it used to be the main reservoir for Lisbon, being fed by a massive 19th century aqueduct.
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