A short post this week redirecting to a longer work,
an interview I did with Brazilian-born, US-based musician Ricardo Donoso for
Cyclic Defrost while he was in town for Sonar. Was great to have a few beers
with him as well after the show. The article focuses on all his different
projects, but for various reasons I will just flag up the more electronic side
of his work.
Ricardo’s debut solo work for Digitalis, “Progress Chance”
was an extended, beatless techno work out inspired by the memories of beach
trance raves in Brazil. A follow-up is due imminently and keenly awaited as
“Progress Chance” really satisfies a certain hunger for more hypnotically-edged
electronica as we saw recently with a post about
Donato Dozzy and Neel’s album “Voices from the lake”. “Progress Chance” is
almost the perfect bed partner for this album, although given the different
time signatures I am not sure if they would be easy to mix. Ricardo even
confesses that the music confuses people and promoters: booked to play more a
club setting and people won’t dance, yet in an ambient/experimental environment
people dance too much. Certainly the crux of the music is like an endless drug
pinnacle in a club, an extended break down where one can imagine dizzy clubbers
waiting endlessly for the beat that will never come.Thanks as always to Bianca de Vilar for great photos.
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