Studies for a Vortex media report 7

Seventh review at LOUD! Magazine. Thank you for the support.

Há poucos músicos portugueses que sejam assertivos como André Coelho, co-fundador dos saudosos Sektor 304 – aquela besta Industrial de destruição total. Esta seria até a forma mais básica de apresentar Metadevice: é S304 mas só com Coelho e algumas participações externas pontuais, mas sobretudo sem as batidas poliritmicas e sincopadas de João Pais Filipe. Tudo é feito por ele até a excelente embalagem, cabeça, tronco e membros. Neste homúnculo sonoro não há aqui piadolas e nem fingimentos estéticos como 99% produção musical portuguesa – o que não impediu no passado de Coelho ter feito projectos iconoclastas ou provocantes. Muito menos, não há aqui queixumes de pagar o pão na mesa (como o hilariante editorial da última Loud!) ou achar que se faz Arte sem suor, sangue e lágrimas. Para quem dificilmente encontrava “up-grades” ao Industrial primordial, da chapa de aço amplificada, do power electronics másculo, do noise sem ser drone fácil e em geral a um corroído Illbient, eis um “regresso” após seis anos após o fim de S304 [(cinco se pensarmos no último registo dos Mécanosphère) quatro com as actuações ao vivo de Sinter]. Alguns vocais disparam erudição literária como textos de Ezra Pound ou Thomas Pynchon - nada de números cripto-circenses “crowley-anus” e outros “senhores dos anais” – criando uma desorientação propícia para 2020. Aliás, a desorientação mundana e existencial é o tema de eleição de Coelho seja na música seja na BD – basta ler Acedia (Chili Com Carne; 2015). Destaque para dois temas assinaláveis, Magnetoesthetics e White Jazz. Obrigatório! 9

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