{"product_id":"goncalo-f-cardoso-variations-on-mass-tourism-songs-from-the-modular-coast","title":"Gonçalo F. Cardoso - Variations on Mass Tourism - Songs from the Modular Coast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA new album from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGonçalo F. Cardoso\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, riffing hard on his surroundings and the friction that mass tourism imprints on everyday life, nature and the coastline he wakes up to every day. Released under the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTropic Brut\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e moniker, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSongs from the Modular Coast - Variations on Mass Tourism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a brutalist, tongue-in-cheek dispatch from the front line of one of Europe's most relentlessly touristed islands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUsing an array of sensitive microphones — contact mics, geophones and magnetic piezos — these recordings were captured across several resort complexes on the island of Tenerife. The buildings themselves are treated as instruments, their raw vibrations amplified and processed: concrete under pressure, metal expanding in heat, the structural hum of machinery keeping the paradise running.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese are not portraits of nature but portraits of interruption — the friction that appears when concrete insists on coexisting with volcanic ground, when mass tourism repeats itself until it becomes a low, indistinct drone. Many of the captured tones are barely audible in daily life: micro-shifts in metal under heat, pressure waves from distant machinery, oceanic energy diffusing through foundations. Others are harsher, exposing the raw mechanisms beneath the surface.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVariations on Mass Tourism — Songs from the Modular Coast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e frames the island not as a paradise but as a resonant body shaped by pressure and excess. It doesn't search for beauty or critique from a distance. It listens to the built environment as a living archive of tension — repetitive, cyclical, never quite returning to the same point. What remains is a strange, meditative violence: a music of abrasion, pressure and the quiet persistence of landscapes that continue to vibrate long after the tourists have left.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll music by Gonçalo F. Cardoso except A4 by Gonçalo F. Cardoso \u0026amp; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFilipe Felizardo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhotography by Gonçalo F. Cardoso\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArtwork by Rutger Zuydervelt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMastered by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRashad Becker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll sounds collected across several tourist resorts in Tenerife between 2022-2025. Walls, railings, empty pools, air vents, sun-bleached walkways and hotel façades were treated as resonant bodies—places where vibration gathers, mutters, and occasionally erupts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Discrepant \/ Keroxen","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":60230342377817,"sku":"SDZ-55466","price":28.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/SRD_20261023_1759_172248_664_p_CREP127KRXN047_023.jpg?v=1793098487","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/goncalo-f-cardoso-variations-on-mass-tourism-songs-from-the-modular-coast","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}