Luís Antero | Field Recordings

Oliveira do Hospital | Coimbra | Portugal

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About

Field Recordings from Portugal

www.luisantero.yolasite.com
(here, you can find all the information about this project + all the recordings i've been made since October 2008. Thanks!)

If you want, clic on the cover of each EP released to view a description.
For free download, please visit the netlabel's main pages
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Soon:

«Rural Sound Narratives (Field Recordings From Portugal, 2009)
@ Wandering Ear

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Discography

(2008)

«Water Recordings»

1 - Water (14:00)
2 - City (18:32)
3 - Water - Part 2 (10:36)

Pure field recordings made by Luís Antero in Alva and Alvoco rivers, in the centre of Portugal...
There's «City», but that's another story...
Recorded in October and November 2008
«City» was recorded in the small city of Oliveira do Hospital at lunch time.
Luís Antero/Bypass Netlabel | November 2008

(2009)

«Sound Narratives, Vol. 1»

1 - # 1 (17:03)
2 - The Sea (06:52)
3 - Train Station (09:42)
4 - Water - Part 3 (09:39)

All recordings, by Luís Antero, take place in Portugal, between October 2008 and January 2009
Luís Antero/Bypass Netlabel | January 2009

«Sound Narratives, Vol. 2»

1 - SN # 1 (16:25)
2 - Water - Part 4 (3:59)
3 - SN # 2 (10:51)

All recordings, by Luís Antero, take place in various locations in Beira Serra e Serra da Estrela, Portugal, between October and December 2008
Luís Antero/Electro Rucini | January 2009

«Sound Narratives, Vol. 5»
@ Enough Records

1 - cbr 11:00 am (09:37)
2 - City Birds (11:00)
3 - ohp 10:00 am (12:12)

All recordings, by Luís Antero, take place in the cities of Coimbra and Oliveira do Hospital, during the month of February 2009

Luís Antero/Marcus Küerten - «Stall»
@ Bypass Netlabel

1 - Luís Antero - Stall 01 (12:36)
2 - Marcus Küerten - Stall 02 (12:06)
3 - Zhang JW - Stall Remix (04:16)

Stall is the first collaboration of Luís Antero and Marcus Kuerten and consists of two twelve-minute tracks recorded on location in the Coimbra region in Portugal and the German Rhineland. The pieces present the unadulterated sounds of agronomical livestock production places.

The changes in sound of the Stall recording by Antero are more punctuated and less textured. It captures, based on species noises, the group dynamics of sheep and forms a contrast to the atmosphere recording of the cow stable. Kuerten’s Stall is dominated by the eerie sounds of a claustrophobic setting with ambient noises mainly, but it is also an extensive audible pleasure to listen to the astonishing amount of information.

The final track is an additional remix by the Chinese musician and producer Zhang JW from Beijing. His complex structured piece of music draws a line under a highly recommended work. Enjoy yourself and listen attentive.
MK

«Sound Narratives, Vol. 6»
@ MiMi Records

1 - Pastorícia # 1
2 - Pastorícia # 2
3 - Pastorícia # 3
4 - SN # 6
5 - cbr 17 pm
6 - Sé Velha

Luis Antero tem a paixão pelas captações de teor natural e etnográfico. "Sound Narratives Vol. 6" é o resultado dessas gravações durante uma viagem entre Oliveira do Hospital e a cidade de Coimbra.
Fernando Ferreira

Recording places:
1 - Quinta da Costa, Bobadela, Oliveira do Hospital
2 - Paranhos, Seia
3 - Quinta da Costa, Bobadela, Oliveira do Hospital
4 - Aldeia das Dez, Oliveira do Hospital
5 - Coimbra (Sta. Clara)
6 - Coimbra (interior da Sé Velha)

«Big Wheel»
@ Konkretourist

1 - Water Song (Part 1) (02:34)
2 - Big Wheel (09:55)
3 - Water Song (Part 2) (03:50)

Location: S. Sebastião da Feira, Oliveira do Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal

Review by Konkretourist:

The working method of Portuguese sound artist and folklore researcher Luís Antero is a rapprochement to the tradition of early North-American field collectors and musicologists at the fin-de-siècle.
His tripartite montage Big Wheel paints an atmospheric landscape and is also an intense excursion. An absolutely breathtaking and heartfelt recital of traditions and improvisations accompanied by brilliant environmental sounds of water mills in the Coimbra region.
The gentle listener will conceive wanderlust and finally, after minutes of pilgrimage, he becomes a resident of a spiritual hermitage and enjoys the light-heartedness of a sober and cloistered life.
Antero’s Big Wheel is infectious, abducts the listener with ease and is an important contribution to the konkretourist label catalogue.

«Watermill EP»
@ Bypass Label

Em tempos idos, que a viva memória dos moleiros ainda não apagou, os moinhos de água grassavam por todo o concelho de Oliveira do Hospital e concelhos limítrofes.
Actualmente, a arte dos moleiros é perpetuada por muito poucos e os antigos moinhos, agora decrépitos, deixaram de funcionar e poucos são aproveitados para outros fins.
Contudo, Watermill EP, lançado pela chinesa Bypass Label, espelha (felizmente) uma outra realidade: a dos moinhos de água (poucos, muito poucos) ainda em funcionamento nestas terras.
Este trabalho sonoro foi produzido com base em gravações de campo realizadas em 3 moinhos de água, nos concelhos de Oliveira do Hospital e Seia, espelhando, assim, as suas identidades vivenciais e sonoras...

«Sinfonia Amphibia»
@ You Are Not Stealing Records

Field recording of frog life in a community park pond.
Trabalho sonoro realizado no Parque do Mandanelho, Oliveira do Hospital, numa noite de Julho de 2009, com centenas de rãs.... uma espécie de showcase anfibio...

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Love & Field Recordings from Portugal.
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Sep 25, 2009

The working method of Portuguese sound artist and folklore researcher Luís Antero is a rapprochement to the tradition of early North-American field collectors and musicologists at the …