Meet Hope and Derek Heehaw—two siblings from a country-music-obsessed family in the south of the USA—in this radio show as day trip journal. Perspectives and legacies of their upbringing linger in their contrasting worldviews, which are confronted as they leave the city for a day and go out on a transgressive mission initiated by the devout Hope: angel hunting.

Trying to get closer to the source that will supposedly grant them freedom, they struggle through their perverse family dynamics before they can find their moment of salvation to grow wings, in particular after Hope seizes the opportunity to address Derek’s brain-deadening addiction that has pushed the talkative horse into the realm of nothingness.

The tongue-in-cheek radio show reflects on oral history in a broad sense, as well as on varying discourses of belief and devotion—whether they appear in the form of Christian virtues and vices, as configurations of ideology and wisdom in popular music and culture, or in the shape of contemporary convictions of the potential of mind-altering substances.

Starring (in order of appearance):
Derek Heehaw – Ivan Cheng
Hope Heehaw – Shade Théret
Uncle Joey – Magdalena Mitterhofer
Poppers Elijah Jungle Juice Jesus – Dylan Kerr
“Karl” – Lili Huston-Herterich

Alexander Iezzi’s practice is conceived through the transformation of materials into scenes, figures, sound and moving images to enter the surreal. The work begins with auditory and visual settings, in which experiments can be improvised and performed, to be reconfigured into artworks later. Iezzi collects and repurposes these materials, sounds and music (sometimes including protagonists, such as his peers or plush animals) in order to poke holes into the typical ways in which psychology, identity, and politics may be perceived.

Iezzi’s work fluctuates between sculptural installations, video, radio, and live performance. Over the last few years – whether solo or with collaborators such as composer Billy Bultheel or Omsk Social Club – he has performed or exhibited at CTM Festival (Berlin), MoMA (New York), the Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam), Galerija Močvara (Zagreb), and Galleri Syster (Luleå, Sweden) but crucially, outside of institutions as well, allowing free-range conditions for the work to wander. He grew up in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and is nowadays based in Rotterdam and Berlin.

Alexander Iezzi "Heehaw Angel Hunting—Lesson in Companionshit"

Taken from 'Kleis' (G&P021) by Somaticae, out June 5, 2022.

Active since 2006 with multiple projects, evolved in countless DIY or festival performances & putting out a handful of hardline releases, on their latest project 'Kleis' out in May via Gin&Platonic, the Saint-Etienne based musician and respected performer Amédée De Murcia alias 'Somaticae' examines the disturbing concept of dichotomy, fundamentally shaping the world around us.

Being a follow-up to his noise, electronica and techno-oriented past releases via Brainstorm Lab, Lost Dogs ent. or In Paradisum, Kleis (meaning key in ancient greek) offers two iterations (the third is a cassette-only bonus) of an epic and raw, yet genuinely fluid sonic riddle. Composed and recorded during 2020 in Lyon, Kleis is a rebus encrypted with grubby drums, entangled irregularly like sonic tentacles of an octopus, unpredictably rolling on tossed with the cold streams of sharp noises. „The symbolism of the key has a double connotation since it has the power to open and close. It commands access to a place, inside a box, and to an acquaintance. Conversely, it can forbid this same access, so the key has both a role of initiation and discrimination,“ says Amédée.
credits

Written & produced by Amédée De Murcia (soundcloud.com/somaticae)
Mastered by Fausto Mercier (soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier)
Artwork by Jiri Macku

G&P021 🔑

Digital & Cassette

Somaticae - Kleis I

driving fast and far

017 - HANNAH ENDRULAT

Artist: Arexibo
Album: 카운터! (Counter!)
Format: Digital / Tape 
Cat.No: CHI023
Mixing: Hyejin Shin
Master: John Hannon
Artwork: Haeri Chung (Super Salad Stuff)
Release Date: 2nd October 2020

After making waves in Seoul with her all-female DJ collective and her multimedia artwork, Arexibo is releasing her debut EP as a producer. 카운터! (Counter!) works upon her proven dancefloor sensibility, weaving in contemplative moments of ambient, minimal electronica alongside bold melodies and luscious synthwave.
Made by connecting and extending virtual synthesizers, this slippage between quiet granular textures, pretty icy minimalism and moments of musical extroversion frenetic rhythmic scenes are at the centre of 카운터! (Counter!). While tracks such as 쌍둥이자리 Gemini are frantic and trance-inspired, fin glides with the symphonic ease of an early Boards of Canada track. On 3, she creates a sense of nightmarish, childlike weirdness, recalling compositions by the 20th-century minimalists. In 𓆉))))   𓆉))), Sci Fi soundscapes meet obscure tuning systems.

“’Counter’ is a word that presupposes a pair,” says Arexibo, “and it also implies a balance of power. When a force of similar size pulls each other in opposite directions, the two are temporarily placed at a standstill. My attitude of producing and creating is no different from this balancing act.”

The release of 카운터! (Counter!) is accompanied by a music video for 𓆉))))   𓆉))), directed by Arexibo, a simple but moving single shot which recalls the early screen tests of Andy Warhol. “Through a high-speed photo shoot that borrowed the typical form of portrait photography, I thought ‘How about the audience stay at the vague boundary between pictures and videos for a while?’” says Arexibo of the video. Watch Private Video here

About Arexibo, 
A mixed-media artist based in Seoul, Arexibo explores the relationship between image and actuality through camera images and sound. She is a quarter of the female DJ crew ‘BAZOOKAPO Seoul’, who organise music events in Seoul. As a musician, Arexibo concentrates on the ‘floor’ as a fluidic space, full of politics. She has been featured in Mixmag Korea and OBEY Korea. 카운터! (Counter!) is her first solo release as a producer.

카운터! (Counter!)

Arexibo - 𓆉))))   𓆉))) swimming turtles

Mineral Love from Grow! - released April 9, 2021
Written and produced by Bby Eco
Mastered by Kai Whiston

Lyrics:

I can’t always ease the pain
The trouble of your mind and it won’t let me go
Left hoping you would say it was all that’s worth
Came down for me, well you’ll find yourself amazed

I wish I could ease the pain
I’m restless in my mind and it won’t let me go
Only when I’ll go outside and breathe
Into my ephemeral fantasy
The wind is swaying past my head
I’m walking through a field and my feet are bare
I see a river that could cool my head
Oh boy, sure I’d like to tap into that

Mineral, mineral, mineral
Won’t you care for me
Saw your faint blue eyes
And they stare at me
Don’t you know, don’t you know, don’t you know
That I saw you there
That it’s all a dream
Casting fantasies

Cool your mind it’s time
To tap into the source
The rivers on our side

Nothing’s gonna change your world
If you don’t go outside
Don’t meet the present

When thoughts are closing in like clouds
They may change the weather
But they won’t change me

Mineral, mineral
Don’t you know, don’t you know
Saw your face running in a field
Holding hands, that was all for me
Don’t you know, don’t you know
I might go, I might go
Mineral, mineral
I might go, I might go

© Bby Eco / LUSTRE 2021

Mineral Love

Oxy from Grow! - released April 9, 2021
Written and produced by Bby Eco
Mastered by Kai Whiston

Lyrics:

Always asking where you are,
And I said baby with the stars, with the stars
Thinking often where you are
Bring me closer with the stars, with the stars
Baby tell me what it’s like,
To wake up when the sky falls, 
Up when the day dreams
Bring me close to where you are,
I’d swear you were the light that never falls

Bright as a star that finds it’s heart,
It draws a line in the centre with just love,
Let it spark alright

Baby we’ll never be apart,
Bring me closer when you wander with the stars, with the stars

Always asking where you are,
And I said baby in my heart, in my heart
It’s getting colder in the dark,
Align my body with the stars, with the stars, alright
Baby tell me what it’s like
To catch a glimpse of white stars, 
They all keep hiding from me
Bring me close to where you are,
I can hear your tears dropping all night long

The starry night is getting close
The wind howls outside it’s getting hella cold
I look up to the sky it seems so tangible
In there appears a face, and it calls me, yeah it calls me yeah

Your voice is carried by the night
It’s embedded in the stars that got me so enticed 
I know where to go when you cross my mind 
Oxylyte inside me wakes the sphere of life

© Bby Eco / LUSTRE 2021

BRITNEY MURDER BOYZ

Water Song from Grow! - released April 9, 2021
Written and produced by Bby Eco
Mastered by Kai Whiston

Lyrics:

Take a dip
Shawty take a dip
Hold your breath
Shawty hold your breath
Butterfly
Got shawty on the left
Bubble tears
On the towel when we left

Shawty always right
Drifting at the bottom all night
Your shallow tide
Meet me underwater when the waves have turned
The twinkle in your eyes hits me like a current
Take a deep dive ‘cause I could sink so low
So low

(...)

Take a dip
Shawty take a dip
Hold your breath
Shawty hold your breath
Butterfly
Got shawty on the left
Bubble tears
On the towel when we left

© Bby Eco / LUSTRE 2021

Water Song

Only In Dreams from Grow! - released April 9, 2021
Written and produced by Bby Eco
Mastered by Kai Whiston

Lyrics: 

Now how can I forget
What you once said
Break my heart in two
For what I love
Nature hold me close
To your green bed
Now how can I forget

I can never
Love my body
Oh there she goes
I can never
Hold my loving
Oh there she goes
I can never
Love my body
Oh there she goes
I can never
Hold my loving
Oh there she goes

Love my body
Love my body
Alright
Love my body
Love my body
Alright
Love, love, love, love

True love
Make my time forever
In a sense
Was waiting just to get it
Always felt that the truth won’t last forever
Now hold your breath
And never let the winner down

Now how can I forget
What you once said
Break my heart in two
For what I love
Nature hold me close
To your green bed
Now how can I forget

I can never
Love my body
Oh there she goes
I can never
Hold my loving
Oh there she goes
I can never
Love my body
Oh there she goes
I can never
Hold my loving
Oh there she goes
Love my body
Love my body
Alright
Love my body
Love my body
Alright
Love, love, love, love
credits

© Bby Eco / LUSTRE 2021

Only In Dreams

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@mary-mary-posa

driving fast and far

Alexander Iezzi

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