‘Metalmadeira II’ reimagines percussionist Marco Bosco’s groundbreaking 1983 album, a work that fused Brazilian percussion traditions with the emerging language of electronic music.

This record, created through a collaboration with Alter Disco, a pioneering independent music collective from Curitiba known for their deep connection to Brazil’s underground scene and their innovative approach to reviving forgotten musical treasures, works directly from Bosco’s original recordings to craft bold reinterpretations, weaving vocoders, percussion, and atmospheric synth into the original’s framework.

The artwork of the original record celebrates the meeting of metal and wood, a theme we’ve stuck to with the remixed version. Collaborating with printmaker Alan Cameron, the record imagery is created by piecing together varying-sized slices of inked wood, intersected by several ornately framed text blocks with metallic-silver printed backgrounds.

Text is set in the monospace weight of Mercure, a serif typeface referencing ancient and classical inscriptions engraved in stone or metal.