Cinq bruissements, by Alfredo Costa Monteiro

Cinq bruissements

by Alfredo Costa Monteiro

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Coming after my first solo accordion recording (Rumeur (for solo accordion) on Creative Sources, 2004), Cinq bruissements is a new step into the exploration of the accordion; this time, the microphones were placed at a very tiny distance of the instrument, almost inside, as if it was litterally auscultated by some greedy ears, attentive to any remote rumour.
Trying to penetrate the sonic secret of this secular box (Pandora’s one was more essential, although it was a jar) reemphasises a disconnection between what is predictable and what is identifiable.
Alfredo Costa Monteiro, October, 2009

Alfredo Costa Montiero: accordion, objects
Recorded and mixed in Barcelona, december, 2006
Artwork: Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Originally released by No Fun Productions, 2009

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released February 15, 2009

Rarely has an instrument been so savagely wrested from the grip of its history. The fey Parisian cafe serenaders, the raffish Gypsy troubadours, even Pauline Olivero’s serene meanderings – Portuguese improvisor Alfredo Costa Monteiro pulverises them all in a rush of wind, a blizzard of shrieking hinges and clouds of copper tone. Those familiar with Costa Monteiro’s accordion work wont’ be surprised to hear such intemperate sounds – produced, no doubt, with the help of some very close miking – coming from a squeezebox. But it took me a few listens to realise that Cinq bruissements is built around a principle of antagonism- not of the listener, but of one sound by another. They’re constantly at each other’s throats.
The A side opens with a series of brusque chordal explosions. Rough enough in themselves, these are then defaced by nerve-shredding metallic howls, Costa Monteiro clawing at their faces with rusted iron gauntlets. He then surrounds a thread of air – bellows opening, slowly, deliberately – with a garden of delicious tortures: uneasy harmonies, a rugged bowing sound, more metal claws on blackboards. Nor is the flip any more genteel. A would-be pellucid drone is pestered by buzzing, like there’s a wasp trapped inside it, hurling itself angrily at the glass. Then another drone is protractedly twisted in and out of dischord by the introduction of noxious pitches. What’s interesting is that though these sounds grate on each other, they don’t grate on the ears.The overriding impression is of balance, not assault – of equilibrial bubbles of conflict as elegantly violent as a clash of shaolin masters.
Nick Richardson [The Wire]

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Alfredo Costa Monteiro Barcelona, Spain

Alfredo Costa Monteiro is a sound artist, composer, multiinstrumentalist and sound poet who works in the field of experimental music. His work is regulated by conceptual restrictions and a special care of textures.
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