António Feiteira’s debut solo project, "Performing the Heimlich on an Ouroboros", sees the Porto-based percussionist and composer channel intoxicating ritualistic impressions across the EP’s triptych of compositions. Delicately rendered into a myriad of details, Feiteira recontextualises granulated glitches, pops and crackles on “Ghost Hiss, Resonant Hip” as if we are seated beside a digital bonfire, embers floating skyward in a spiral of rising heat. Electronics jitter in their harmonies with a nervousness—evocative yet restrained.

The EP’s second movement, “Synthesized Chronos Turned Organless Aion,” retains the textural tactility of the previous track, propelled by a drum pattern that ebbs and flows, weaving between ringing resonances and electronics buried beneath plumes of vaporous chimes. Conscious linearity yelding to a sense of harmonic cyclicality before succumbing to an endless, but welcome, sleep.

Final piece “Killswitch Counterpoint” sees Feiteira place guitar front and centre, pensively glitched out and forlorn. The hyperactive flicker of the ASMR-like pops, contrasting against lush downcast melodies—softer in their contortions but contorted nonetheless—gives way to a trance-inducing repetition, as smoke begins to clear and nothing is left but the ashes.

Eastern Nurseries no. 43

Composed & produced by António Feiteira

Mixed & co-produced by Francisco Antão
Mastered by Lendl Barcelos
Artwork by Isabel Pereira

Drums & tubular bells in "Ghost Hiss, Resonant Hip" performed as a duo with Vicente Mateus

Special thanks to Rita, Francisco and Lendl.