Able Noise is George and Alex’ experimental baritone guitar and drum duo, based between The Hague, the Netherlands and Athens, Greece. Through the use of voice, tape and alternative methods of playing their instruments, they create a minimal and visual musical performance. Their output is primarily focused on live concerts, letting their music be shaped by the physicality of their playing, the acoustic and aesthetic properties of the space, and the dynamics formed between themselves and their audience. Their recorded work relies less on their respective instruments, and more on an assemblage of field recordings, heavily processed instrumentation, and exploratory mixing techniques. They released their debut on the Glasgow label GLARC in 2020, and their debut LP ‘High Tide’ was released on the 1st of November 2024 through London label World of Echo.

‘’Sorceries of uncertain time and place levitated by Borja Caro – guitar and synthesiser – and Violeta Azevedo – flute and synthesiser – in well-breathed and welcoming bio-technological contemplation. A kind of folk from the future, a portal to a cybernetic fifth world between organic touch and digital call, this duo’s music mutates without haste between simple guitar harmonies that gradually forget themselves, enchanted winds and neurodivergent electronic textures, mystified by the hallucination of delay, reverb, spectral processing and timeless melody that escapes the occult.”

Hugo Capablanca, ℂapablanca, DJ, producer, founded ‘Ediciones Capablanca’ in 2008 in Berlin, a charismatic and eclectic record label that has been building a reputation for making its dilettante, uncompromising approach its own style for over a decade (and a half). Now based in Lisbon, a valuable addition to the local scene of vg+ (very good plus!) selectors.