Counterfeit by Fordmastiff

Counterfeit is a 60-min electronic lo-fi odyssey inspired by Rio de Janeiro's iconic Carnival Parades, a celebration reimagined through unusual musical territory. It is music made as the soundtrack to a phantom city, one where magic underground vapors leak through cracks on the sidewalk, bringing contact with unnatural subterranean atmospheres.

From Lucas Stamford: “Recently, an abandoned ship went adrift in the Guanabara bay after a windstorm and collided with the main bridge to the city of Rio de Janeiro. It was later revealed that there were people living inside the vessel's decayed carcass, a crew. There are other ships like that in Guanabara bay, like ghost ships sailing in secret at the entrance of the city.

I've always felt the city has a kind of secret hidden reality in itself, as if beyond the visible, there was an invisible world striving to manifest through portals that become accessible between a certain part of the night and dawn, maybe around 3 to 6 am. Carnival is a peculiar event where that separation is subverted, where normality can be suddenly disrupted, and the fantasy realm takes over the city symbolically. So I started making music as my own bedroom Carnival Parades… it’s my little musical tribute to hidden worlds.”

The Quietus - "The Best Tapes Of 2022":
"...His sonics are celebratory, but faded and subject to interference. It mimics trying to remember every moment of a celebration the morning after, struggling to hold the memories together as new information enters and starts to knock them out of focus. Memories of the carnival become growing blocks in Fordmastiff’s hands, expanding and folding over each other so every sensation and possibility can be latched onto."
(Daryl Worthington)

COUNTERFEIT:
Lucas Stamford as Fordmastiff: all writing, recording, & instrumentation except additional credits below

additional credits:
Claudio Szynkier (Babe, Terror): Sampler, Moonmelter Station (A1)
Darlene: Vocals (A1, B2)
Mario Cascardo (Atletas): Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Sampler (A4, B3, B5)
Rafael Stan Molina (Fantasma do Cerrado): Electric Guitar solo (B2)
André Lira: Speech (B2)
Gabriel Vianna: Acoustic Guitar (B1)
Iago Coimbra: Fretless Bass (B3)
Ana Termignoni: Vocals (B3)

written and recorded mostly during 2020-2021 in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

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para Natália

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Special Thanks to:
Mario Cascardo for lending some of his powers to me (talent, abilities and charisma);
Rafael Stan Molina for deep night debates and all the help and solidarity;
Claudio Szynkier for precious writing and arrangement discussion and many years of inspiring conversation.

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Cover photo by Claudio Szynkier
Design by Ricardo Antônio Chagas

Tracklist

1.	A1 - MONDAGE CANAL	4:54

2.	A2 - MUDIC PERSAH	2:38

3.	A3 - BATEAU MOUCHE 4	5:40

4.	A4 - BAKIHR DEMYRIOL	7:24

5.	A5 - PAZAR GUNLERY	7:54

6.	B1 - RUNAGE	5:53

7.	B2 - SISMOGPÉDIE	10:53

8.	B3 - MEDHA BARIUM	7:45

9.	B4 - MEANWHILE	1:27

10.	B5 - CRISTA	5:33

Credits

released November 15, 2022

License

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.