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Blackwoodh 05:26
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Edgelnd 04:05
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Phanthom 05:17
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Pyhlon 04:49
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Spectrl 04:56

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Siccum records :
siccumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pragmathism

WHΛLTHISИEY is Fernando Cerqueira from Lisbon, Portugal.

The music of Whalthisney is a solitary soundtrack to nowhere, a non-tourist map into the unknown; music and images to create new, fully immersive environments, an intriguing aural pilgrimage with no destination in time and space, nuances and labyrinths. Whalthisney selects and mixes music for the mind and body in the same quantities that emerges from encounters between the past and the present, drawing beauty of the commonplace, wiping, polishing it, giving it life again, so to produce the same effect of the original freshness and spontaneity, a mirror that transforms it absorbs and reflects.

Whalthisney mixes impressionist piano atmospheres, spoken wordcore, drone, experimental, library, hypnotic escapism music.

Whalthisney aka Fernando Cerqueira is the founder member of Thisco record label which released works from Merzbow, Kk Null, Rapoon, Jarboe, Randy Grief, Anla Courtis, Rasalasad, Lasse Marhaug, Von Magnet, Simon Crab, Mimetic among many others.

Fernando Cerqueira is also the publisher of Antibothis printed / cd anthologies and book collection THISCOvery CCChannel ( Thisco / Chili com Carne ) which includes Robin Rimbaud, Andrew Mckenzie, Joe Coleman, Joe Ambrose, Dj Balli, Vadge Moore, Ondina Pires, Rui Eduardo Paes, Z´ev, Hakim Bey, Erik Davies, Critical Art Ensemble, CrimeThinc, V. Vale, Ian F. Svenonius, Adi Newton, Jonh Zerzan, Murcof, Master Musicians of Joujouka, CindYtalk, Terre Thaemlitz among many others.

Fernando Cerqueira was the founder member of the late 80's SPH tape / record label, and writes for the anarchist newspaper A Batalha.

Fernando Cerqueira / Whalthisney has several works released through Symbiose, Thisco, Illuminated Paths, Blocsonic, La Nostalgie de la Boue, Grain of Sound, HNM Rec. Grado,Klappstuhl, EE tapes, Vuz Rec. Tape Safe, Spettro Rec., DigitalDizzy, Floppy Kick, Kitsh Magik, Placenta Recordings, Attenuation Circuit, Petroglyph, Post Global rec., Drone Works International, Naviar, Pilot 11, Sea ov Clouds, Attenuation Circuit, Petroglyph, Urubu among others and recorded several tracks with Jarboe, Von Magnet, Emil Beaulieau, Merzbow, Smell&Quim, Wild shores, irr.app.(ext.) Antonym, Shhh, Amantra, Harsh Noise Movement, lolipoop, among others.

Anti : review :
"Exploring the new WHΛLTHISИEY album was a treat in and of itself, complimented by sounds stripped to it’s most raw, primitive form and then heavily concentrated for the most potent, experimentally textured brew imaginable.
Burrowing in the crystallized melange of orderly destruction and intrinsic auditory pleasure, we find only the dance of emotion and the reverberating energy aroused; discovering nothing in between the rhythmically conventional and the rhythmically incapable. Sounds like these are only symbols of this laboratory of thought; a language constructed to convey disorder in what presents order: the absurdity of normality.
Released May 22, 2020, Pragmathism has quickly become one of my favorite’s from this label. Racing through impermanent oscillation’s embodying the module of this organism, while capturing the snapshot’s of what makes each sound whole.
Feedback clicks and bleeps swam our ears into a somnolent frenzy in Blackwoodh; encapsulating a dreamy gaze of the stars. Rhythmic feedback perform various amazing percussive patterns, sequencing a lovely complexity in kaleidoscope variations. Ambient synths scintillate a blanket of jocund piano and mellifluous notation elongating our minds in this opulent chamber. Textures trickle and envelop, annexing the next track EdgeInd; which showcases sounds in their final evolution from the last track; but adding a fluttering atomized enigmatic enterprise that glows profusely. Strongly distinctive, crystalline filaments shoot through arrangement’s aforementioned in the previous track. Expanding upon wonderful communicable devices, creative ingenuity that modulates instrumentation into fabric’s wonderfully mixed and compartmentalized. A string of various rhythmic vortex’s spiral and descend into Phanthom‘s eclectic and multifarious sounds. A throaty sine-wave resonates through a strong, powerful gust of white noise. Suddenly, we are transitioned to a sequence of arpeggiated synths delicately gliding across the dawn’s light. Descending, we soar through an atmosphere where all of the elements meld together; as a clean, evanescent synth rings across the great wall of white noise.

Pyhlon is veiled behind walls of decimated audio signals, buried entities unidentifiable noise generators gasping. Floating on this green ocean of sonic obliteration are passing waves of decayed melody and radioactive timbres that ignite your ear canals as Spectrl‘s steady character included minimal landscape teeming with unexpected life.. Thickly distorted rumbles of heavy bass encompass us, sending shock and dissonant vibrations to shake and bludgeon.

What I really fancied about this work was it revels in over-saturation and convoluted sonic vortexes commonly associated with experimental/electronic music. The dynamics are more polished in a way, and the comfortable transitions occur with logic, being extremely pleasant to the ear. WHΛLTHISИEY boasts a brilliantly-earned self-sufficiency in his art; achieving wonders for our world of sounds."

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released May 30, 2020

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WHLTHISИEY Lisbon, Portugal

"haunting piano & minimalist glitch. Like Harold Budd & Oval playing in the same room. Soothing & peaceful & weird & edgy & beautiful".

"subtil (un)classical music to dream on"

"touching and tender as it is elegant and enchanting... a frail and fragile classicist toning, the melancholic murmurs of the delicately intimate key touching and the sighing string arrangements .."
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