After the initial release of the Anthology compilation Aquapelago in 2022 (Discrepant ,CREP91) this first volume opens up the series with a sound journey inspired by the majestic and sometimes furious Atlantic Ocean. The music was recorded throughout special artists residencies held during the Keroxen Festival in 2020 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife where throughout a week each band recorded their own free vision of an aquapelagic Atlantic culture. Philip Hayward, the Australian researcher who coined the term Aquapelago also joins the proceedings with extensive sleeve notes. Side 1 is provided by LAGOSS - a band comprised of Tenerife based veteran producers, Gonçalo F. Cardoso, Mladen Kurajica and Daniel García while Side 2 is provided by Banha da Cobra, comprising Lisbon-based musicians Mestre André and Carlos Godinho. Both ensembles have addressed aquatic themes in their prior work, LAGOSS having represented phantom islands on a series of vivid cameo tracks released as Imaginary Island Music Volume 1 (Discrepant, 2020) and Banha da Cobra having staged a performance within the Mae D'Agua reservoir in Lisbon in 2018, drawing on recordings of place and objects within it to conjure the liquid history of the city. Recorded at Espacio Cultural El Tanque, Santa Cruz de Tenerife by Jorge Lozano R. Part of the Aquapelago Residency Series for Keroxen 2021 Produced and Curated by Gonçalo F. Cardoso Mastered & Cut by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Berlin

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