Faith, by Heitor Alvelos

Faith

by Heitor Alvelos

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Full colour digifile with photography & artwork by Jon Wozencroft & Heitor Alvelos

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1.	Errant 01:01	buy track
2.	Exodus 01:42	buy track
3.	Edict 00:54	buy track
4.	Alluvion 04:09	buy track
5.	Pseudoself 08:05	buy track
6.	Vicarious Solace 00:52	buy track
7.	The Way of Malamat 10:07	buy track
8.	Periasmos 02:37	buy track
9.	The Other 05:52	buy track
10.	Home Elicited 00:28	buy track
11.	The Hopeful Night 04:08	buy track
12.	Dedication 00:18	buy track

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Faith is the first full-length sound release by media researcher and curator Heitor Alvelos under his own name. Heitor Alvelos has been a long-time on/off collaborator of Touch, having on occasion provided photography and stage visuals for Biosphere, Fennesz, BJNilsen, Rafael Toral and Philip Jeck, as well as releasing sound pieces under the aliases Autodigest, Antifluffy and Before Surgery, on Ash International, TouchRadio and The Tapeworm.

“The essence of the present piece is autobiographical: therefore the use of my own name”, the author clarifies. “And yet it aims at being resonant to others”: in this context, resonance may be regarded as both semantic and visceral, as the sound frequencies on Faith are often of the kind that “rearrange one’s organs”, to quote the recently departed Bernadette Martou. A necessity in order to carry the gravitas inherent to the subject, a confessional confrontation with the zeitgeist.

All sources have been gathered, recorded and produced throughout five decades, all the way back to a recording by Francisco Alvelos in 1972 that closes the release. Elsewhere, sounds have been processed to various degrees, the bookends retaining their original contexts, others mutating into deep abstraction. Overall, they flow as one single composition, evocative and foreboding in equal measures.

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released June 1, 2015

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