★Holuzam
Ficciones Del Tropico
**Much needed repress. 180 gram vinyl with printed innersleeve** Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Alexander Molero is no stranger to the exotic idealism that westerners have towards South America. A move to Barcelona a few years ago gave him new notions of how the Amazon was imagined by the west. The inspiration for this record came from the book by Anton Goering "Vom tropischen Tieflande bis zum ewigen Schnee" and was also influenced by the writings of Victor Segalen and the visions of Werner Herz…
Kenemglev
**Edition of 300** Bourbonese Qualk legend Simon Crab meets Charles Beullac (Galerie Statique) in a volley of brooding, dubbed-out industrial/illbient misfits for Lisbon’s Holuzam, the young affiliate label of the renowned Príncipe Simon Crab is nothing less than a true pioneer of British post-industrial music, with a catalogue of prototypical dark ambient, groove-driven industrial, and hardcore techno practically unparalleled in his field. In collaboration with Canadian artist Charles Beullac, …
Seis Peças Sintetizadas
**120 copies** 2019 has been a tremendous year for Luís Fernandes, apart from his daily work as an Artistic Director of gnration and Semibreve Festival. He released his first solo album under his own name, Demora, on Lawrence English’s Room40 and had a song on the commemorative compilation of The Wire, The Wire Tapper 50. He also collaborated with Black Bombaim in the brilliant record W/ Jonathan Saldanha, Luís Fernandes & Pedro Augusto and has worked on a new piece with his longtime collaborato…
Taipei Disco
Holuzam is a new label from Prícncipe Discos co-founders José Moura and Márcio Matos. The second release on the label is a sublime disco missive from Macau, China, recorded between 1989 and 1993, bubbling up from a blindspot to offer a stunning package of sounds lesser, or even never, heard beyond private archives or Portugal’s borders... Dwart has been the vessel for journalist and musician António Duarte and his sometime musical partner, Manuela Duarte, since 1985. They played gigs at home in…
Belzebu
“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…