Margarida Garcia, Manuel Mota

*150 copies limited edition* For the last 30 years Margarida Garcia and Manuel Mota have shared a common space of listening, risk, and reinvention. A singular language born from the absolute necessity of the moment. Following Domestic Scene (2024, Feeding Tube Records), The Figure in the Carpet confirms a body of work that continues to expand with rigor, subtlety, and an originality rarely encountered.

Here, sound is not merely gesture or melody; it is also fragment, remainder, residue — noise that functions simultaneously as ruin and ornament. Imperfections and tensions destabilize the structure, yet at the same time make intentional gestures perceptible, creating a music in which what remains or disperses is as significant as what is directly played. Without this residue, active listening and the perception of melody would be impossible. 

The title evokes Henry James’s homonymous short story and its idea of a hidden design — a latent form that only allows itself to be glimpsed through persistence and sustained attention. In this recording, the “figure” is revealed not through assertion, but through subtle accumulation: small inflections of timbre, almost imperceptible variations in density, a fragile dynamic balance that reorganizes itself at every moment. What at first listen seems minimal or elusive ultimately exposes an internal architecture, at once dense and suspended.