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mysterious and sublime.
(Aquarius Records)
Insula dulcamara is certainly one of the most musical electronica outings of recent times, and is strongly recommended.
(paristransatlantic.com)
Paulo Raposo's wonderful Sirr label is one of the most consistent founts of contemporary electroacoustic minimalism.
(boomkat)
Raposo and Santos are playing with our ears, creating comfort zones where there should be none and turning highly familiar places into alien landscapes. Insula Dulcamara is an album of soft sound art. It is gentle on the ear and relatively easy to get into, yet it requires the listener full attention to stay in focus. Become distracted and it fades into the background and turns into an undifferentiated soundscape. Keep your listening eye on the music, scrutinize it and it reveals innumerable hues and shades, tells opaque stories and leaves you with the impression of having lived an enriching peaceful moment. The music is never suggestive enough to be cinematic, which turns out to be the album's biggest strength.
(Francois Couture, All music guide)
A most remarkable document, it seems to give a presentiment
of the dimension of the kernel from whence this environment came.
(Max Schaefer)
Hades is a vivid cinema for the ear and a must-have for sound art
afficionados.
(ALL MUSIC GUIDE)
This is an
incomparably limpid (lucid) sound art work, even in the uncertain lack of
specific programs and theories supporting what the music extensively
tells and charms. (Aurelio Cianciotta)
Sound of Space is an ongoing radio show conceived by Paulo Raposo for the Lisbon based Radio Zero.
The program is focused in presenting and documenting site-specific works, compositions and installations which process or aural experience departs from a personal reflection on the idea of space - architectural environmental, public/private, electromagnetic.
In each program, it is presented a particular sound artist or project that intends to disrupt and reconfigure space in unexpected ways, sometimes along with an interview setting up briefly the context and the conceptual / theoretical background for their own activity.
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