Favela Discos is a Portuguese electronic music and experimental music record label founded in 2013 as an artists and intellectuals collective based in Porto.
Batsaykhan is not only one of Nuno Oliveira’s alter-egos but also something between a
science fiction character and an ancestral spirit doomed to wander the earth in an apparently
human physical manifestation. The first album, Maestro Ir Noras, is a small and simple
collection of tracks featuring only guitars and other stringed instruments, the second, being
even smaller (only a single track) already seemed to lead us on through the psychedelic
desert that would define the sound of the project.
After a long hiatus, Batsaykhan finally emerged from the drawer, or maybe it was from the
desert, only to reveal that he had shape-shifted, now taking the form of a trio. With the
help of André Azevedo and Tito Silva, Nuno started working on old demos of unpublished
compositions and adapting them to the new formation. The trio started the process of refining
the songs and the sound of the record, using only a strict selection of synths, percussions,
bass and guitar. They ended up settling down on a terrain of moving sands for those who
feel the need to define their sound, between a forest of psychedelia, a river
Favela Discos is a Portuguese electronic music and experimental music record label founded in 2013 as an artists and intellectuals collective based in Porto.