Brilliant, clandestine, Brazilian label Liga Do Vento Divino deliver hard for fans of modern cyberpunk modal fantasy noir - think James Ferraro x Live Adult Entertainment/elHellEll/Heat Crimes x Muslimgauze x Abe’s Oddysee OST - with the first in a potent triumvirate of imported goods: a 2xCD, 97 minute salvo of cryptic soft synth magick shot thru with ‘90s RPG and thriller score adrenaline, Arab-Brazilian new beat, pseudo-ethnomusiclogical tribalism, syncretised melodies x monk chants.
Although blipping our radar only recently, Rio De Janeiro’s Liga Do Vento Divino have been active since 2019, with some 28 releases of music from Brazil and farther afield issued on arcane formats, from tape to the far more exotic CD-ROM, Minidisc, 3.5” floppy, VHS, and acetate. One of those labels that is a world unto itself, full of unknown entities (MC Genétic Cruel A Elevate Do Vendor, anyone?) and enigmatic artwork, it really reminded us of Thessaloniki’s incredible (now defunct) Live Adult Entertainment in look, sound and feel, but with a certain twist of etheric distinction and vision that’s equally pulled us deep into the mise-en-scène of LDVD’s parallel dimension.
Aintel Euaholm’s heavily absorbing DIYstopian odyssee ‘Theomania’ is arguably an ideal place to start with this remarkable label. Spanning 20 parts, from neurotic synth cues to durational, polyrhythmic sci-fi baroque jags, and genuinely flesh-chilling atmospheres, it firmly reminds us of the sort of audities coming thru crackshot São Paolo label, Lugar Alto (Akira Umeda, Ramon Successo, Mitar Subotic), as much as LAE, Heat Crimes, or the James Ferraro x Spencer Clark axis, in its unpredictable modulations of temporality and variegation of vibe, and especially in the way it necessarily prises the 2CD format to fully regale and unfurl its pulpy instrumental story.
They properly push our déjà entendu buttons with the queasily compressed slither and bestial voices of opener ‘Diamerisma Gia Sygatikisi’, before a hard right into hypermodal new beat in ‘Erzla Tawhiri’ and the 10 minutes of pitch-bent microtonal keys and rattling Romani wedding music polyrhythms to ‘Mencer Halvel Salvaxe’ keep expectations wide open. AFter that, expect everything from Bryn Jones-y Ara
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Brilliant, clandestine, Brazilian label Liga Do Vento Divino deliver hard for fans of modern cyberpunk modal fantasy noir - think James Ferraro x Live Adult Entertainment/elHellEll/Heat Crimes x Muslimgauze x Abe’s Oddysee OST - with the first in a potent triumvirate of imported goods: a 2xCD, 97 minute salvo of cryptic soft synth magick shot thru with ‘90s RPG and thriller score adrenaline, Arab-Brazilian new beat, pseudo-ethnomusiclogical tribalism, syncretised melodies x monk chants.
Although blipping our radar only recently, Rio De Janeiro’s Liga Do Vento Divino have been active since 2019, with some 28 releases of music from Brazil and farther afield issued on arcane formats, from tape to the far more exotic CD-ROM, Minidisc, 3.5” floppy, VHS, and acetate. One of those labels that is a world unto itself, full of unknown entities (MC Genétic Cruel A Elevate Do Vendor, anyone?) and enigmatic artwork, it really reminded us of Thessaloniki’s incredible (now defunct) Live Adult Entertainment in look, sound and feel, but with a certain twist of etheric distinction and vision that’s equally pulled us deep into the mise-en-scène of LDVD’s parallel dimension.
Aintel Euaholm’s heavily absorbing DIYstopian odyssee ‘Theomania’ is arguably an ideal place to start with this remarkable label. Spanning 20 parts, from neurotic synth cues to durational, polyrhythmic sci-fi baroque jags, and genuinely flesh-chilling atmospheres, it firmly reminds us of the sort of audities coming thru crackshot São Paolo label, Lugar Alto (Akira Umeda, Ramon Successo, Mitar Subotic), as much as LAE, Heat Crimes, or the James Ferraro x Spencer Clark axis, in its unpredictable modulations of temporality and variegation of vibe, and especially in the way it necessarily prises the 2CD format to fully regale and unfurl its pulpy instrumental story.
They properly push our déjà entendu buttons with the queasily compressed slither and bestial voices of opener ‘Diamerisma Gia Sygatikisi’, before a hard right into hypermodal new beat in ‘Erzla Tawhiri’ and the 10 minutes of pitch-bent microtonal keys and rattling Romani wedding music polyrhythms to ‘Mencer Halvel Salvaxe’ keep expectations wide open. AFter that, expect everything from Bryn Jones-y Ara