RELEASE: Sempre a Correr
ARTIST(S): Phoebe
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RELEASE DATE: 2023-02-17
DOWNLOAD FORMAT: 765Kbps, LOSSLESS
FILE SIZE: (123.16 MB)
Sempre a Correr have 4 TOTAL TRACKS
- Phoebe – Faz Essa (03:50) 05B, 132
- Phoebe – Nem Sempre Estou no Mood (07:12) 08A, 136
- Phoebe – Sempre a Correr (05:09) 12B, 127
- Phoebe – Importação/Exportação (05:41) 01A, 132
Total Playtime: 00:21:52 min
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Sempre a Correr. The title chosen for Phoebe’s new EP couldn’t be more appropriate to characterise the music and life of the DJ/producer who goes by the name of Bruno Goncalves.
Anyone who is, in fact, aware of what is being built on the clubbing circuit in Lisbon, away from the media attention, will hardly have not come across Phoebe. Whether as the founder of Troublemaker Records, at the helm of Radio Quantica, as a programmer for the festivals Ano 0 and Rama em Flor, resident DJ at the mina or one of the pillars of Planeta Manas.
In the midst of so much activity, it’s almost a miracle that Phoebe manages, at the same time, to create a highly idiosyncratic musical journey, in permanent sound mutation, not letting himself be imprisoned by expectations of obeying a rigid stylistic scheme.
The EP that now arrives from the hands of Extended Records (joining a luxury catalog composed of records by Diogo, Menino da Mae, 2Jack4U, Lieben, EMAUZ, Savant Fair or V i L) has that urgency of someone who is always running in search of something, a light that illuminates bodies in the midst of the chaos of everyday life.
Sempre a Correr follows the EP that Phoebe released in the summer of 2021 on Rotten Fresh, entitled if i was simple in the mind, everything would be fine, an authentic exercise in catharsis between the noisy sound walls of shoegaze and the rubble of ambient , without ever losing sight of the dance floor and the rave appeal.
But since then, Phoebe hasn’t stopped there. At the end of 2021, he created the Sweet Love Making label with BLEID, through which the split Love is patient, love is kind, love will make you lose your mind (2021) came out, which included the songs Marrazes and Causeway Bay, authentic punches in the stomach from percussive polyrhythm.
Throughout 2022, without media fuss, several themes were released that help to map Phoebe’s musical path, without ever seeing this puzzle completed (and thankfully): Club Tool; Down to Whatever; Estou Perdido; and K-LUBE 01/02.
But Sempre A Correr belongs to another league. Faz Essa, the opening theme, begins with an abrasive synthesizer line that bridges some of the details explored in the previous EPs, but quickly reaches its focus, transmuting into a rave banger that stimulates the bodies that (only) find release on the dance floor.
I’m Not Always In the Mood turns it around. Solar synthesizers are reconfigured along with samples of broken voices, which are almost slogans of a life without pauses, but, for that very reason, imperceptible, without a simplistic transposition to everyday mundane life. Because there are moments so intense that not even words can translate.
The second part of the EP released by Extended Records begins precisely with the theme that gives the album its title. In Sempre A Correr, the track, the luminous synthesizers return, dazzling the eyes and skin of those who are still dancing when the sun begins to appear between the arrows of the rave. A theme that explores Phoebe’s taste for the house music school, without fears, and with a highly urgent impetus.
The EP ends with Importacao/Exportacao, in which distant echoes of the percussive explorations of Marrazes and Causeway Bay are felt, these sounds now acquiring a body with a strong identity, which is astonishing for its multifaceted nature.
Bruno Goncalves, or Phoebe, will always continue to run, there is no doubt about that. The new album proves that unstoppable urgency that distinguishes him and his music.
Text by Joao Moco//
