Council Meeting Memo #118 — Five for Friday
Fabiano Do Nascimento & E Ruscha V: Aquáticos (Music From Memory, Album)
E Ruscha V is the son of Pop artist Ed Ruscha and Fabiano Do Nascimento is a prolific Brazilian guitarist living in LA. Together they’ve produced a lovely record that makes for relaxing ambience or rewards close listening. Do Nascimento has previously collaborated with Sam Gendel, U-zhaan, Shin Sasakubo and many others in formats ranging from guitar duets and electronica to orchestral arrangements. David Lynch once said “Music is one of the most fantastic things. Almost like fire, water, and air. It’s like a thing. It does so much.” Meanwhile, the world’s most powerful man is a rampantly narcissistic sexual abuser and the world’s richest man is a fascist who happily spreads paedophile images. Aquáticos is a reminder that there are good things in the world, it’s the musical equivalent of the sun warming your face, of gentle breezes and sandy beaches or warm meadows on summer days. (CB 🇵🇸)
Jacob Kirkegaard: Snowblind (Helen Scarsdale Agency, Album)
‘Bleak, cinematic sound work that evokes the fatal 1897 North Pole balloon expedition by S. A. Andrée as a slow, psychological drama rather than an action narrative. Across 11 short, glacial pieces, cold drones, distant metallic tones, and storm-like textures create a feeling of inescapable isolation and creeping dread.’ The opening blast of ‘Ascent’ introduces its intent…..terrifyingly beautiful. (SA 🇵🇸)
Concepción Huerta & Hara Alonso: Towards the melancholy of a future (SUPERPANG, Album)
‘Slow, immersive piano‑and‑electronics album where fragile motifs and grainy textures blur into one continuous, melancholic drift. It’s understated but emotionally rich.’ (SA 🇵🇸)
Chris Watson: Planet Ocean (Touch, Album)
‘Planet Ocean by Chris Watson is a single, hour‑long ocean sound journey that feels like a documentary without images, moving seamlessly from coasts to reefs and polar ice. It’s quiet, immersive, and best for deep, focused listening rather than casual background sound.’ (SA 🇵🇸)
Various Artists: Volcanic Tongue (A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide To Late 20th Century Underground Music) (Disciples, Compilation)
‘A lovingly curated, time-warped primer on the underground, this plays like a mixtape of Keenan’s obsessions: free-folk drift, damaged rock and outsider psychedelia sequenced for mood rather than history. It feels less like a survey and more like being handed a secret map, where private-press ghosts and DIY lifers coexist in a consistently intimate, quietly ecstatic haze.’ (SA 🇵🇸)
