Music from Portugal

Two Holuzam reissues from Telectu's richest years: Off Off, the double LP they released themselves in 1984, and Performance, their first live album, recorded at the 1984 Cerveira biennial. Together at a reduced price.

Telectu's first live album, recorded at the 1984 Cerveira art biennial with performances by Manoel Barbosa: long loops and homages to Eno, La Monte Young, Fripp, Cage and Riley. 200 new copies pressed from the original 1985 stamper.

Death Is Not The End issue 15 heartbreaking archival fado recordings from Ercilia Costa - made in Madrid in 1930, accompanied by seminal guitarist Armandinho. One of the early stars of fado, Ercilia Costa was the first to take the music overseas to emigrant Portgugese communities.

Telectu's 1984 manifesto, the double LP the duo paid for and released themselves: music for performance, concert, theatre and video, from miniatures named after demons to the side-long Palolo. Remastered, 300 copies, screenprinted fold-out cover.

The sound of this composition comes from 2 live shows that were superimposed and than mixed with field recordings. The voice sings circular texts. One side is called Além and the other Aquém which means beyond and short of.If you are curious about the lyrics we can share la première strophe of Além The head, banging against the screen, searching for a decapitated cure, promises a Prometheus to the atheist,who didn't even touch the fire.

Great electronic music produced in the 1970's at GRM or at his private studio by Portuguese composer, released in 1980 on Imavox’s “Discoteca Básica Nacional” series.

Multidisciplinary Portuguese artists Calhau! return with a new album and their first release on Discrepant. It’s quite possible you’ve never heard about them. They’re not that famous in Portugal or anywhere. Calhau! is formed by couple Alves von Calhau and Marta von Calhau, not their real names, but they’re their real names in the artistic reality Calhau! have been working in the last 15 years. But now that you’ve read their name, you must dig in. They’re one of a kind.They’re not musicians, pai…

Centered around Philip K. Dick's writings, Telectu's debut album CTU - released in 1982 in Portugal through Valentim de carvalho, is still very much under the radar, probably for being so far ahead of its time. Considered by some to be at the vanguard of Art-Rock in Portugal, CTU is much more than this. It's the pinnacle of a new epiphany of sound that came together naturally when Jorge Lima Barreto (Anar Band) and Vítor Rua (GNR) met and decided to direct their creative minds towards an outspok…

“Belzebu” was originally released in 1983 and it had absolutely no context in the Portuguese music scene. Telectu duly complain about that in the xerox presentation included with the album, but their idea was never to make things easy anyway. Jorge Lima Barreto (JLB) was very active in the avant-garde and jazz scenes (he recorded a ground-breaking AnarBand LP in 1977 together with Rui Reininho, later to assume lead vocals in the pop band GNR) and his uncompromising attitude and leftist leaning d…

**Available in vinyl for the first time, edition of 200** Composed at the Ina GRM - the two B-side pieces, both in 1972 - & at his own “Private” studio in Porto - the A-side, 1979 - this trilogy of Musique Concrète pieces by the Portugese composer Filipe Pires was initially issued in 1980 as part of Imavox’s “Discoteca Básica Nacional” series - #13, alongside Jorge Peixinho’s epic “Elegia a Amílcar Cabral” - #6.“Canto Ecuméncio” is a beautifully chaotic & extended ride, wherein we’re taken throu…

Composed at the GRM - the two B-side pieces, both in 1972 - & at his own “Private” studio in Porto - the A-side, 1979 - this trilogy of Musique Concrète pieces by the Portugese composer Filipe Pires was initially issued in 1980 as part of Imavox’s “Discoteca Básica Nacional” series - #13, alongside Jorge Peixinho’s epic “Elegia a Amílcar Cabral” - #6.“Canto Ecuméncio” is a beautifully chaotic & extended ride, wherein we’re taken through a brutalist, man-on-the-street voyage through various folk-…