Nuno Canavarro: Plux Quba

A glitchy masterpiece by an enigmatic Portuguese composer

Working from London this week, I wandered around the city’s streets for hours in the evenings, listening to Plux Quba on repeat. I had found the album through Kenyan sound artist KMRU’s guest column in First Floor, and got enchanted by its magical glitches, bleeps and swooshes.

It seems as if Nuno Canavarro, the Portuguese composer who wrote this album w…