FROM CLAM012 | EMULATION OF US

https://clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/clam012-emulation-of-us

out 11/03/2022

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“Which sounds lie within the quietness that precedes the rise of new species?”

Calmaria is the first act of Acta Recordings, previously named AVNT Recordings. The label went through a rebranding and reconfiguration to better represent a new generation of emerging artists, specially from Brazil and Latin America.

Acta Recordings aims to be a sheltering space for divergent and limitless creative artists, gender-bending through Pop and Obscure music. We're designing a new and exciting home, from scratch and within the possibilities of our resource availability in a socio-political complicated country - collectively world-building and terraforming in inhospitable places.

Digital Exhibition & Online Zine:

calmaria.xyz

Artwork: Yan Higa

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Bridging his last few years in Shanghai and his first couple in the U.S., the debut EP on Gully Riddim from the now New York-based Naaah leans into the sorts of bright, playful melodies that have become a characteristic of his music, all the while keeping in place harder-edged, percussive club sounds. Operating at and just above the 100bpm mark, the tracks channel post-Bala Club sonics as well as tuffer drum trax, but with a shifting mood across the EP. With its subtle nods to trap dancehall, opener "Environs" sounds like it would be equally at home in Portmore as it would a London basement rave, while "Ta Me Duck" is just pure exuberance. Hitmakerchinx-indebted "Thx Ross" then pays tribute to a Shanghai club scene stalwart, before "Pilipala" dives deep into a nimble dancefloor workout.

Joining from South Korea and Japan respectively, dBoi! and Keito both up the tempo for their remixes but take the originals in radically different directions, with the former offering an expansive take on "Environs" underpinned by lurching 808s. The TYO Gqom member, meanwhile, lives up to his party's ethos, adding drums worthy of a Durban taxi to "Ta Me Duck" but maintaining — and twisting — its ear-worm melody to create a fresh take on the South African genre. Gully Riddim co-boss Zean then rounds out the release with a crystalline interpretation of "Pilipala" primed for — initially at least — eyes-down club moments.

Words by Chris Russell

Artist: Naaah
Title: PAP
Label: GR Recordings
Cat No: GR003
Cover Design: anormalturtle300
Mastering: Zean
Release Date: 20th July
Format: Digital

Naaah - Pilipala

DJ Kalpis 2022

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‘Inflatable Gravestone’ is the debut album by Mun Sing (aka Giant Swan’s Harry Wright).

The motivating force of the album is the sudden loss of Harry’s father in 2020. His father struggled with substance addiction and the album explores ideas of 'spirituality' and the ‘higher self’ in relation to addiction and its parallels with the coping mechanisms of grief. It also aims to highlight the importance of humour and distraction when coping with loss.

Serving as a narrative for his own experiences, the album is largely built around club-centred tracks (such as ‘Spider’ and ’Squabble’) broken up by moments of yearning and reflection in tracks like ’The Poison Garden’ and ‘Helhest (Azrael Smirks)’ and moments of dark anguish like 'Inheritor' with its heavy slab-like chords and pensive piano. Flirting with awkward and suggestive rhythms, Wright deliberately suspends moments of resolution and groove in favour of drama and jerky, unexpected cartoonish humour, taking as much influence from the likes of the Art Of Noise as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. 

Wright rewards the listener with moments of clarity and introspection like flags on the journey, recruiting vocalist MX World to deliver lyrics and melodic ideas created by him and his father. His father’s journals in rehab helped inform most of the lyrics. Some take whole sentences as a way to physically ‘give life’ to his words for the first time. The lyrics describe feelings, revelations and  apocalyptic hallucinations. MX World's clear, direct tone suggests folk music and the timelessness of the human condition.

The album concludes with the title track ‘Inflatable Gravestone’ which features a chorus of giddy manipulated laughter from Wright’s friends and family to a truly maddening effect. This is then resolved by bright and clear piano chords and the sound of Wright’s father breathing in his sleep. A deeply affecting and personal record with corkscrew twists and turns and a healthy dose of absurdism.
releases June 2, 2023

All tracks written and produced by Harry Wright. Lyrics by Harry Wright, except track 10 lyrics by Harry Wright and William Wright. Lead vocals by MX World. Additional vocals by Nashne, Akiko Haruna and Mouse.

Mastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven Mastering.

Published by Domino Publishing.

Helhest (Azrael Smirks) [ft. MX World]

ix May

Improving precision. Aspiring to thread the needle, as a shinobi would. Time, and practice-while playing different tracks. Enjoy!

Neurothread (DnB Mini-Mix Practice Session #23) / Download

All sounds were recorded in the field on Kombumerri Country (Gold Coast, 'Australia'), 2019

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