Druuna Jaguar
En Transi | For Hammond Organ, Arp 2600 Synthesizer And Cello
*100 copies limited edition* Jorge Mantas, under his Druuna Jaguar moniker, returns with a new opus devoted to drone meditations and beyond. Entering the album as a neophyte, a deep descent awaits into a slowly evolving spectral composition for solo Hammond organ. Beneath its apparent simplicity, the attentive listening reveals a hypnotic state of austere beauty. Follows a poem for multi layered cello, prolonging the initial somber tone, but creating more dynamic edges through its acoustic conto…
Eterno Retorno
* Edition of 60 * Born out of an unconditional love for the sound of the organ, sound artist Druuna Jaguar pieced together his recent endeavor, Eterno Retorno, through an obsessive urge to capture the structural depth of the historic Hammond organ. Treating the organ more like a synthesizer, while pushing the instrument to its tonal limits, Druuna Jaguar gracefully extracts hidden resonances and subtle nuances from the constant flux buried within these long sustained tones, penetrating deep with…
Trou Aux Rats Druuna Jaguar
*Limited edition of 50* Split tape between Trou Aux Rats (also Vomir) and Druuna Jaguar. Trou Aux Rats, live in Tokyo at Hikari-No-Uma 20 April 2018 - performed by Romain Perrot. Druuna Jaguar, máquina poema - recorded at atelier 5-7-5 studio in January 2019. Type I Red cassette with pro-printed full color cover and printed case.
Memoria Aumentada
* Edition of 80. Very last copies, in process of stocking. * Druuna Jaguar, the musical project of Portuguese sound artist Jorge Mantas, has always shifted its presentation based on the project's immediate surrounding, no matter how involved or abstract. A majority of the output by Druuna Jaguar is somewhat hard to come by, as most is released (and distributed solely from the small medieval enclave of Évora, Portugal) in rare limited editions through Mantas own experimental label, Atelier 5-7-5,…