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O álbum "II" da dupla portuguesa Gaztween é um lançamento de 2025, editado pela editora Jazzego Records.
II é um álbum de downtempo dub e jazz contemporâneo, onde o duo (composto por Gazpa e Arctween) explora a interligação entre a música eletrónica e a instrumentação acústica, criando paisagens sonoras meditativas e cósmicas.
Uma das faixas do álbum, "Afurada", já foi lançada como single nas plataformas de streaming em novembro de 2025 e conta com a participação do vibrafonista Eduardo Cardinho.
A dupla Gaztween também participou na compilação "Granito II" da mesma editora, lançada em fevereiro de 2025, com a faixa "Firewater".
Gaztween are Miguel Tenreiro and Tito Romão, two producers from Porto whose music orbits the kind of downtempo dub that seems made for late-night listening, when the city's gone quiet and you're left with just the hum of electronics. They've played at Ferro, Maracujália, and even made it up to Malmö. Somewhere along the way they developed a sound that sits between the organic drift of Brazilian MPB and the more structured constructions of European electronic music. Their second album, II, was recorded across three intimate spaces—Mr Beans, Miguel's room, and Tito's basement—and it shows a duo less interested in polish than in possibility.
The record explores themes the Gaztween describe as "intimate bonding between humans and robots". But what comes through more clearly is a kind of meditative drift, tracks that move slowly and deliberately through textured electronic landscapes punctuated by acoustic instrumentation. There's flute and cello alongside their usual arsenal of electronics and computers. The track "Egydio" marks the first time they recorded these two acoustic elements and integrated them into a composition together, though still filtered through the duo's particular lens of electronic processing.
In fact, II might be best understood not as a statement but as documentation of a process—two friends meeting regularly to experiment, drawing from influences as varied as Saint Germain, the orchestral arrangements of 1970s Brazilian music, and the textural experiments of someone like Sam Gendel.
lançamento em 25 de novembro de 2025
downtempo dub electronic jazz contemporary fusion Porto