«Mycelium is the name given to the set of hyphae of multicellular fungi such as mushrooms. These hyphae expand and connect underground creating a network with all plant species allowing communication between the beings of the habitat for their development.
In Mycelium Network, Tha_Guts walks towards its ecosystem of origin, allowing our imagination to enter into a solitary dance in search of new possibilities of contact and connection networks that strengthen the dialogue between the inhabitants and their environment. In this organic/synthetic landscape, in search of oxygen and delirium, tender and spongy textures surround our trunk that pierce the pores of our skin, seeking the aesthetic mimicry that makes the work an integral part of the medium itself.
In the exchange of narratives on the album, the artist invites us to dance in his own time, presenting an environment in which sounds exist with the purpose of fulfilling a macrostructural function in the development of the whole. Showing that, in order to exist in a group and to remain, we need to expand the current configuration to an adjacent communication model, in which each one aware of their existence can offer ideas and nutrients to the next.
The universe is – and always will be – fickle and volatile. In this tangible body that we wear in the Now, we feel insecure in the face of the immateriality of time and the oscillation of atoms. Thus, amidst the noise and delicate ambiences that guide the work, we walk lost among the clouds in a dream without a script and without an outcome. Walking aimlessly is sometimes necessary and pleasurable. If electronic music has always been aerial and liquid, Mycelium Network emerges from behind new limits with a certain anthropophagic controversy, remembering that dance is not the art of creating empty gestures.»
by Bruna Regina Pietta Abrao
We have had the pleasure of doing the interview and this has been the result.
Can you tell us a little about your experience? Where are you from / how did you get into music?
My experience comes from when I was drawn to the process of capturing sounds. As a curious and bored teenager I recorded a lot on cassette tapes, some of which I use as samples to this day, and as time went by, turning digital was a natural path. In that period, even though I was already a musician, I didn’t have a project, which started in 2018 with Plastic Noise, my first album.
Who have been your main inspirations (both musical and in «life»)? And how have they affected your sound?
I believe that inspirations tend to be determined by the time we live in, for example the Mycelium Network album sometimes sounds more melancholic than other works I’ve done. Taking into account that I recorded the album between June 2020 and the end of 2021, it ended up carrying this feeling of loneliness amid the pandemic and uncertainties ahead.
How would you define your sound?
How I define it is a complicated question because it is a concept that changes over time, but how I would like it to be defined by those who listen to my music would be as a sound that instigates the curiosity of those who listen to it.
How has your sound evolved so far?
My music has actually become more mature over time, I think the lens is a lot less blurry than it was at the beginning, I can get more concrete ideas of what I want to sound like. In the end, this development is nothing more than training, studio hours and contact with new artists.
What projects are you working on right now?
At the moment I’m promoting my new album, Mycelium Network, which has just been released and by the end of the year I should be releasing a new project with my label partner A. Cittolin.
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Tha_Guts – Mycelium Network
