The late ferry at night: a dark hull with a row of white deck lights, their reflections in green dashes on black water. CACILHAS in tall cream letters.

EP · TDW-017

Caci lhas

Ilo Varga

Released
11 April 2025
Label
Tidewater Records
Tracks
5

Tracklist

  1. 01Cais do Sodré4:40
  2. 021:156:02
  3. 03Engine Room5:11
  4. 04Rail3:57
  5. 05Cacilhas7:24

Formats

Liner notes

For six weeks in the winter of 2024 I took the last boats across the river with a pair of binaural microphones in my ears. The engine, the rail, the people talking quietly on the way home from work: everything on this EP started there.

Back in the flat I cut the recordings into loops and played over them until they turned into tracks. Engine Room is the hull of the Cacilhense, slowed down by half.

Credits

  • Recorded, written and produced by Ilo Varga
  • Mastered by Inês Faria at Sal Mastering
  • Cover: Studio Maré

Videos

Deck lights of a night ferry reflected as green dashes on black water.

Cacilhas (live on the ferry)

Live

“Cacilhas turns a commuter ferry into a cathedral. Play it on headphones, late.”

The Listening Room · Joana Peres