self eater and drinker | audeop 0399

I thought about fragments of life, caught glimpses of extra sensorial activities, intercepted dialogues between strange alien creatures...The duo of Ernesto Rodrigues (processed and prepared violin) and Jorge Valente (computer, synth) leaves a lot of space, both literally - by respecting the principle of silence and sound being equally fundamental - and to the imagination, as one is forced to use his own mind to figure out what's going to happen, right after the very first moments of their interconnection. The alternance between strange waves of hallucinating auras and the spiky hits of the strings mixed with computer-processed electronics is the strongest point of this record: eight movements flowing without any fatigue, showing everybody that no definition is necessary when intelligence is involved. Massimo Ricci (Touching Extremes)