“The Right Half”, the debut album by duo Davide Luciani and Jorge Quintela, is the trace left by a collision of noise, musique concrète, and drone music. Produced between 2020 and 2024 in Berlin and Porto, and marking the artists’ first musical collaboration after more than fifteen years of friendship, the album sweeps through sharp sonic punctures and dense sound images.

Born from a process of improvisation, collage, and overdubbing, this record finds the duo interweaving their sound sources through processes of cross-manipulation and feedback. Quintela’s crafting of rhythms and glitches is digested through Luciani’s sound sculpting processes, timbre juxtaposition, and spatial-feedback routing. Primarily recorded through guitar and bass amplifiers, cabinets and stereo PAs, the album absorbs multiple spatial identities, travelling across harsh cabinet acoustics and bleeding room resonances.

The music on “The Right Half” moves between sparse sketches and sustained, monolithic pieces. The tracks, titled in an assemblage of Italian, Portuguese, English and numerals, stage opaque narratives where spiritual, spatial and literary references meet without striving for clarity. The music pivots between soft and jagged shores, humid and dry climates, icescapes pulsing like hot-blooded veins. Never settling into a particular state, the listener is thrown into a maze of large acoustic spaces intertwined by narrow sonic ruptures.

The record draws on a lineage of experimental music, from the meticulous architecture of Bernard Parmegiani to the abrasive textures of Russell Haswell. Yet, it defies easy categorisation, existing instead as an exploration of the spaces where noise and ambience cross paths with structure and chaos. Like the mythic and literary references woven throughout, the album is a labyrinthine journey, inviting listeners to lose themselves in its unresolved halves.