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(Loop magazine) This is the second review that we do to a disc of the Lisbon Thisco imprint. Fernando Cerqueira is behind Thisco and also of his musical project Rasal. Asad that we are going to review soon. Again Thisco showcase underground artists who explore sinuous forms with found objects and post-industrial atmospheres. This is a split in which participate the Portuguese Bio, Samuel Jerónimo, the Italian Cría Cuervos, aka Eugenio Maggi and Portuguese The Beautiful Schizophonic, aka Jorge Mantas. The first contribution is of Bio who creates expectancy with gongs, percussion of glass objects, Eastern flutes and field recordings obtained in some desolated place with the crickets sounds that are processed altering their volume and intensity. The evolution of 'The distant image of the abstract light' is unpredictable, from the almost deafening noise of synthetic sounds, passing through the irruption of drill & bass to mechanic rhythm and a sample classical piece. All finely blended. Another long track of more than 17 minutes is 'Foret, foret, des yeux fourmillent' of Cría Cuervos, which is mixture of sounds of found objects and a background made out of noises that form a dense and distant swelling. The Beautiful Schizophonic completes this split with three tracks where the first one, 'Her heart is a room full of drones', is almost a tribute to drone music: an impenetrable wall of sonorous matter. 'Soul scanner' is certainly chilling noise and drones, which could be transformed in pure noise. The low dynamic ranges on 'Girl in ecstatic peace' remember Richard Chartier's minimal atmospheres, where the listener must pay attention to which some people would think that it's silence. Thisco brings with this split music that disturbs by its exquisite darkness. Guillermo Escudero, Loop magazine (Chile)
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