A stalwart of the Portuguese exploratory music scene, multi-instrumentalist and composer Gustavo Costa is part of a thriving network of musicians. With stints in several bands over the last three decades, Costa has also played and collaborated with individuals such as John Zorn, Damo Suzuki and Jamie Saft, to mention but a few. The talented drummer and percussionist’s most recent venture resulted in his debut solo album, Entropies and Mimetic Patterns, releasing this month through Lovers & Lollypops and Sonoscopia. The album “alternates between percussive minimalism and primitive beats, stripped-down, without any production tricks”, as the press release describes. Throughout its eleven tracks, Costa “uses percussion to achieve the intangible and the drums to provoke pulsion, traveling in the abstract with remarkable physicality.”

As an excellent introduction to Entropies and Mimetic Patterns, lend your ears to the entrancing ‘Circles and time I’. The single is offered with a video accompaniment created by Augusto Lado. Here it is.