Name: Faith
Brand: Heitor Alvelos

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Bonus disc: No

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to97

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2015-05-29

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Standard:20

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Heitor Alvelos

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Electronic

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Touch

<p>Touch is a UK label that was founded in 1982. They have a diverse range of sub labels such as Touch Tone, T33, and Spire, which are reflected in the catalogue numbers of their releases. It's important to note that Ash International, OR, The Tapeworm, and others are not sub labels of Touch but rather administered by the organization with their own stand-alone identity. Additionally, TouchRadio is not a label but a streaming platform.</p>

'​Faith' is the first full-length sound release by media researcher and curator Heitor Alvelos under his own name. Heitor Alvelos has been a long-time on/off collaborator of Touch, having on occasion provided photography and stage visuals for Biosphere, Fennesz, BJNilsen, Rafael Toral and Philip Jeck, as well as releasing sound pieces under the aliases Autodigest, Antifluffy and Before Surgery, on Ash International, TouchRadio and The Tapeworm. "The essence of the present piece is autobiographical: therefore the use of my own name", the author clarifies. "And yet it aims at being resonant to others": in this context, resonance may be regarded as both semantic and visceral, as the sound frequencies on Faith are often of the kind that "rearrange one's organs", to quote the recently departed Bernadette Martou. A necessity in order to carry the gravitas inherent to the subject, a confessional confrontation with the zeitgeist. All sources have been gathered, recorded and produced throughout five decades, all the way back to a recording by Francisco Alvelos in 1972 that closes the release. Elsewhere, sounds have been processed to various degrees, the bookends retaining their original contexts, others mutating into deep abstraction. Overall, they flow as one single composition, evocative and foreboding in equal measures.

Faith

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