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Silhouette Nekropolis

by Diogo Carriço

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    - Learn how hand gestures are used to perform ‘Polyps’ in a video breakdown;
    - Unreleased clips of piano recording studio sessions;
    - Digitalisation of ‘Deep Blue’ handwritten piano sheet music;
    - Get to know the first version of the cover artwork, before Diogo Duque Paula transformed it in what it is today;
    - Cover artwork;
    - Release show photos;
    - Discover what inspired the 3D coral shape at the entrance of the release show;
    - Phone wallpapers inspired by the live visuals;
    - Find out how coral videos are manipulated into the live visuals;
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Deep Blue 06:39
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Polyps 07:28
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Bleach 02:34
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Adventuring on a minimalist piano infused with ever drifting electronic experimentalism, portuguese posthuman pianist Diogo Carriço proudly shares ‘Silhouette Nekropolis’, his debut album, on November 24th. Overcoming apathy towards recurring climate crisis news, the musical narrative flows in between restless organic textures to create a sense of cherish and wonder.

Bred by a planet overflowing with the most surreal symptoms of its fever, ‘Silhouette Nekropolis’ brings to surface the hardships of the first ecosystem at risk of being entirely lost to the climate crisis - coral reefs.

For Diogo, the balance between people, technology and nature is urgent. In 2017, he moved to The Netherlands to pursue his vision of self expression through breaking boundaries between acoustic and electronic elements, humanity and technology. Since then, he has seen prolific years of daring experimentation coupled with personal and musical growth. Diogo has been awarded the prize ‘Young Creators’ by the National Centre of Culture of his homeland, Portugal, and toured The Netherlands as selected emerging talent of Popronde. His explorations with cutting edge technology led him to work with rare computer controlled instruments, namely the Disklavier piano and the Hyperorgan in Orgelpark (Amsterdam), and prototype, with the support of the University of Arts of Amsterdam, ‘Qi’ - an unique software for shaping musical performances with the expressiveness of hand gestures.

The album is a submersion in a coral’s dreamy yet confronting lifetime journey. The strain of rising sea temperatures causes corals to expel the colorful algae that live in their bodies - ‘Zooxanthellae’ - thus turning into pure white sculptures and losing their food source until they eventually fade. The title comes from the vast fields of lifeless silhouettes that result from a massive bleaching event. Extracting from the corals themselves and their watery surroundings the raw artistic materials that drive this work, Diogo propels the listener to a continuous drift through colors and textures that evoke a new empathy, oneness and attunement to nature. The intimacy of the felted piano in ‘Deep Blue’ and ‘Zooxanthellae’, captured by Gijs van Klooster, adds a contemplative dimension to the immersive experience, destined to dissolve into fuzzy ‘Putrid Traces’ and the remaining rocky note clusters and longing strummed strings of the last track, ‘Silhouette Nekropolis’. ‘Polyps’ - the tiny reef’s mouths proliferating in colonies - presents, on the other hand, a thick pointillism of dominant sonic entities claiming their space. Progressively multiplying, they propel the listener to a rapturous drift of minimal trance. Yet, excruciating melodies of fight for survival meet our ears from far away. Whoops, purs, snaps and grunts of fish and shrimp, recorded in reefs across the globe, illustrate in ‘Gardens of Coral’ the aliveness and fantastic array of inhabitants these metropolises host when in a healthy state.

Issued independently as a limited edition white vinyl LP and NFC stickers, Silhouette Nekropolis is fluidity, the permeation of musical elements within the parts in favor of the whole, a mixed infusion of colors and a (bio)diversity celebration in a time that can no longer live without climate justice.

credits

released November 24, 2023

Music composed, performed and produced by Diogo Carriço
Recorded by Gijs van Klooster at Soundbird Studio, Utrecht
Mixed by Diogo Carriço
Mastered by Gijs van Klooster
Album artwork by Diogo Duque Paula
Graphic design by Diogo Duque Paula
Original coral reef samples by Julius Piercy, Steve Simpson and Tim Lamont
With the Support from the Portuguese National Centre of Culture, Bol Pianos and Steunfonds Talentvolle Makers.

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Diogo Carriço Utrecht, Netherlands

Diogo Carriço is a posthuman pianist engaging with the deconstruction and transmutation of pianism and the piano, in a relation of forces with electronics that infuse fluidity and restlessness in oneness. Adventuring on a minimalist piano, he infuses drifting harmonies and undulating melodies with electronic experimentalism.
An experience between the real, virtual and imaginary.
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