Hearing Smoke by Polido, released under his Holuzam imprint. Four years after the double album A Casa e os Cães / Sabor a Terra, the record arrives as eleven new pieces that resist easy categorization, free from genre, narrative, and the comfort of legibility. Rooted in years of research into Portuguese contemporary composition, its histories of repression and censorship before April 25th, and the eruption of freedom that followed, Polido transforms those inherited states of mind into something that looks outward, processing globalization through sound as a living, shifting material. Mastered by Taylor Deupree. Artwork by Polido. Design by Nuno Maio and Polido.