Flamingo #31 (16/06/21)
Flamingo is my monthly radio show on Lisbon’s Rádio Quântica, broadcasting every fourth Wednesday from 16h–18h. You can find the mixcloud archive of previous shows here.
A download link for the mix portion of this show will be sent to paying subscribers.
This month’s Flamingo is the first show ever to consist entirely of new music, at least for the first half before the mix. I can’t say this is because I’ve been paying particular attention to what’s coming out in general (that’s always far too mammoth a task for me to take on) but I think it does say something about how many of my favourite artists and labels - some friends included - are putting stuff out. So within my blinkered view there is much activity.
The show kicks off with fresh new music from PHOEBE, a Portuguese artist and label owner (of Troublemaker Records) who I have included in previous shows. I saw Bruno perform this project recently at ZDB here in Lisbon, wearing a bejewelled full face covering and accompanied by dreamlike projections. The album - a bold and impressive mix of ambient, noise, heavy glitch and electro - sounded even more epic in person, but listening at home you can still easily make emotional contact with the feelings and intentions he’s put into the music. Check the whole thing out on bandcamp here.
I’m also enjoying the process of getting to know multiple tracks from EPs by playing them on different shows, thus trying to mitigate the tendency towards disposability that is one of the main reasons I don’t follow new music in the first place. In this show I revisit releases from YUF-O, Baby Rollén, Sedef Adasi and the Fufu Collective, investigating the moods of the tracks that didn’t necessarily jump out at me on first listen and adding them to my mental archive.
Finally, don’t miss my edit of Huerta’s ‘Legwork’ paired with an 80s freestyle acappella by Midnight Fantasy. I included this in my Truants mix earlier this year and have worked with Steve (Huerta) and Tom (T. Jacques from Nuances De Nuit) to make it available as a digital download, here. All money received will be donated to the organisations Mind (in the UK) and GLADT (in Berlin). If you buy the release tomorrow, 18 June, Bandcamp will donate their revenue share to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Thank you to Bruno, Paulo at Positive Future and Victor at Distant Waters for sending me promos this month.
PHOEBE – Godspeed [Rotten/Fresh, 2021]
YUF-O – Do You Ever D.R.E.A.M Of Flying? [Superconscious, 2021]
Duckett – The Monster [Self-Released, 2021]
Iglew – Light Armour [Wisdom Teeth, 2021]
Baby Rollén – wys [Magic Carpet, 2021]
Ed Chamberlain – Styge [Lapsus, 2021]
Fantastic Man – Cloud Manager [Love International, 2021]
Sedef Adasi – Mermaids On Acid [Public Possession, 2021]
Konerytmi – Raitiovaunu [Shoganai, 2021]
Huerta – Legwork (Joe Delon’s ‘Is It Me Or Is It Her?’ Edit) [Welt Discos, 2021]
IN THE MIX
Armand & The Banana Spliffs – Zouk Zone [Cutting, 1994]
Vagara – Liquid Assets [Southside Of Saturn, 2019]
Rafiki – Backseat Cruiser [Fufu, 2021]
Bud Burroughs – Julip [Seventh Sign, 2017]
Gavnlig – Speak Up [Indexlife, 2020]
Vapourspace – Vista Humana (Nev Mix) [FFRR, 1994]
Hardfloor – Into The Nature (Like A Tim Remix) [Harthouse UK, 1994]
Funk D’Void – Diabla (The Hacker Mix) [Soma, 2001]
Sedef Adasi – Turbo Ride [Public Possession, 2021]
Octave One – The Resolution [430 West, 1995]
Conemelt – Letter From Ransford [iLL, 1999]
95 Steps – Traxx [Positive Future, 2021]
Jump – Luv It Up [Dark, 1993]
Sans Sucre – Ampulae Of Lorenzini [Distant Waters, 2021]