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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10.0px'>Hi everyone,<BR>
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New release:<BR>
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<B>and/OAR<BR>
</B>catalog number: and/25<BR>
artist:<B> MARC BEHRENS PAULO RAPOSO<BR>
</B>title:<B> HADES<BR>
</B>release year: 2006<BR>
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After "Further Consequences of Reinterpretation" (Crónica, 2003) <BR>
Paulo Raposo and Marc Behrens have created a new dynamic sound work: HADES.<BR>
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HADES is based on sound recordings made aboard Lisbon ferries and at the quays of<BR>
Cais do Sodré, Trafaria and Cacilhas 2001-2005. Both artists had initially set out to<BR>
record independently, being fascinated with the sounds of the ship hull and landing<BR>
gear, as well as with the actual passage on the river, which gives a magnificent (maybe<BR>
the best) view on large parts of the old city of Lisbon. During the course of the work<BR>
which took three years to complete, some more, precisely directed recordings were<BR>
made together.<BR>
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Understanding the actual crossing as a symbolic passage, once it is reduced to<BR>
sound and memory, it was associated to the crossing of the mythic river Styx to enter<BR>
Hades, the ancient Greek underworld. As the different sound recordings<BR>
provide the artists with very diverse material (for example low frequencies from the<BR>
ship's hulls and motors, high frequencies and beats from the gates at Cais do Sodré),<BR>
they understand the composition as hovering on the delicate borderline between a<BR>
soundscape portrait and a multi-strata arrangement, in which things happen<BR>
parallelly, and individual layers move on more than one path simultaneously.<BR>
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Behrens and Raposo have also worked together since 2001 on the Lisbon based<BR>
label SIRR.<BR>
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In the opinion of and/OAR, HADES is not only one of the strongest works to surface<BR>
from either artist, a/O will go out on a limb to state that it could very well set a new<BR>
precedent of quality for collaboration work of it's ilk. <BR>
Needless to say, a/O is highly honored to be releasing it.<BR>
Please give it a very attentive listen. Especially in headphones!<BR>
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and/OAR -> <a href="http://and-oar.org">http://and-oar.org</a><BR>
HADES -> <a href="http://and-oar.org/pop_and_25.html">http://and-oar.org/pop_and_25.html</a><BR>
Marc Behrens -> <a href="http://www.mbehrens.com">http://www.mbehrens.com</a><BR>
Paulo Raposo -> <a href="http://www.sirr-ecords.com/pauloraposo">http://www.sirr-ecords.com/pauloraposo</a><BR>
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Besides and/OAR, this CD wil be very soon available through Sirr Shop. <BR>
<a href="http://www.sirr-ecords.com/shop.html">http://www.sirr-ecords.com/shop.html</a><BR>
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Greetings,<BR>
Paulo Raposo<BR>
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