Description
Debut album by I’A’V, a conjuration born from an invitation extended by gnration in Braga to Inês Malheiro, completed by Arianna Casellas and Violeta Azevedo. Three inescapable figures amidst the portuguese scene, whose precious body of work resonates here in ineffable style.
A blessed triangulation of artists, each with a fully formed vision and a path forged across multiple fronts, I’A’V trace a course of dreamlike songs that blend into a long and volatile poem, where a rarefied electronic landscape of arpeggios, glassy textures, and ruptures seeps into the lyricism of Casellas’s cello lines and Azevedo’s flute breaths, guided by the Voice.
At times stripped bare, at others soaked in a torrent of post-human effects, settled on Malheiro’s expressiveness and elevated by the beatific harmonies of Casellas and Azevedo. Volatile Poem, recorded during the mentioned residency, unveils mysteries and conceals realities in a fluid sequence of communal ascension moments and passages of deeper abstraction, woven into a dreamlike flow.
credits
All Music by l’A’V (lnês Malheiro, Arianna Casellas, Violeta Azevedo)
Voices, samplers, cello, flute and fx
Recorded at gnration by Budda Guedes
Additional Recording by Rafael Silver
Mixed by Rafael Silver
Mastered by Gonçalo F. Cardoso





