funcionário - O Mensageiro de Nordsud [2024]

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Obrigado ao Benjamim Castanheira, Simão Bárcia, Pedro Sousa e Vicente Mateus pelas contribuições

released February 8, 2024

ambient electronic experimental Portugal

Funcionário - Cavalcante [2022]

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Look around you. In recent years ambient music has changed and encountering Jon Hassell's fourth world design has become easy. Most of the time there’s no feeling, no narrative, a nothingness of ideas through layers and layers of pastiche and boring bedroom music. This is not bashing. Just a reminder that sometimes the information trap delays an understanding of how good music really is.

“Cavalcante” is the new release by funcionário (born Pedro Tavares). You’ll find Jon Hassell in these eleven pieces. And yes, sometimes you’ll think about ambient music. Most of the time you’ll wonder about what is really happening. And why it's only now you’re hearing about this twenty-something musician from Setúbal, Portugal.

A little bit more than one minute into “En Garde!”, the opening track, one feels challenged by the idea that everything that was listened up to that moment was a false start. The piece abruptly stops, flips some digital sound, and restarts in a whole new direction. As this happens it becomes obvious we are in for a treat. Those two, three seconds create a sensation that everything happens in a moment that introduces you to funcionário's craft: delicate complex sounds infatuated with the idea of movement and the never-ending notion that there’s no dividers in the fourth world. Music can go beyond that.

As it moves forward – “Verde”, “Sierra” or “Publicidade Arco e Flecha” -, the album (his fourth) morphs around variations or perceptions of ambient / electronic / experimental music. And as the language evolves, it hints on how funcionário keeps stretching the boundaries of digital music as he wishes to advance to a more analog setup. In a way, he confronts foundational ideas while having breakthroughs and realizing he is at a top level. Justifiably ambitious, bright and discreetly edgy. We dare to say: monumental. 

released November 4, 2022

Contributions:

Bitrot - Composition & Production on "En Garde!"

Noiva - Flute & Vocals on "Verde" & "Publicidade Arco e Flecha"

Gabriel Ferrandini - Drums on "Sierra"

Pedro Sousa - Saxophone on "Tributo" & "Sadino Queue"

trash CAN - Composition & Production on "Au orvalho"

Adriana João - Violin on "ResidentSleeper"

Photographs: Adriana João

Mixing: Benjamim Castanheira

Mastering: Brian Pyle

Design: Márcio Matos

ambient electronic experimental fourth world jazz jon hassell Lisbon

Funcionário - Quase Louro [Single 2020]

YANDEX (320 Kbps) Size:19.7 MB

mix of loops & unfinished tracks (oferendas)

released March 3, 2020

ambient electronic experimental Portugal

Funcionário - Quasi Ouasi [2020]

YANDEX (320 Kbps) Size:79.3 MB

Oferenda a todos os trabalhadores

released April 30, 2020

ambient electronic experimental Portugal

Funcionário - Shichishito [2020]

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"Shichishito, seven branched sword. The new album from funcionário borrows its name from a ceremonial artifact, invoking an introspective journey through the alleyways of the main plot/blade that make up our own personal life. A precise and melodic brush painting what feels like blank sound canvases. At the 36 minute mark, after all the detours, we find a smooth and polished image, resulting in one unique experience, exactly like the sword aforementioned.

In comparison to previous releases, this body of work finds its landscapes more fluid and organic, a more familiar sound in its irregular linearity. The various branches of the blade is where we find the continuous stroke that sets the tone to this story’s arch. It’s in the foggy frontier between recordings and sample work that lives this serene ambient record. All branches of life in one single object, sound."

- Luan Bellussi

released October 7, 2020

Mastered by Benjamim Castanheira

Drawings by Pedro Tinôco

Designed by AALTAR System

electronic experimental ambient Portugal

Funcionário - Só Honrado Mix [2019]

YANDEX (320 Kbps) Size:54.2 MB

unreleased music mix for Dia Cão (Pedro Rocha) show at rádio quântica 1 OCT 2019

released November 5, 2019

ambient electronic experimental Portugal

Funcionário - Gaiden [2019]

YANDEX (320 Kbps) Size:73.2 MB

Variz 011 Den.

released November 1, 2019

All music composed, recorded & sampled by Pedro Tavares:

Mixed by Benjamim Castanheira;

Mastered by Fernando Fadigas;

Cover images by Elisa Azevedo;

Layout design by Miguel Sá & Pedro Tavares;

Executive producers: Fernando Fadigas & Miguel Sá.

© Pedro Tavares

℗ Variz, 2019

ambient electronic experimental Lisbon

Funcionário & Trash Can - p a z [2019]

YANDEX (320 Kbps) Size:41.5 MB

split by funcionário and trash CAN

Colinas 2019

released July 21, 2019

Mastered by Benjamim Castanheira

2019 ambient colinas electronic experimental electronic experimental funcionário hypnagogic pop trash can Portugal

Funcionário - Aegis Um [2018]

YANDEX (320 Kbps) Size:97.2 MB

Capa por Elisa Azevedo

Masterização por Benjamim Castanheira

released July 8, 2018

ambient electronic experimental Portugal

Funcionário - Harpedonaptae [2016]

YANDEX (320 Kbps) Size:90.5 MB

Uma página em branco

released May 4, 2016

ambient electronic experimental Portugal