Late Junction BBC3 2023

DJ T. remix of our song Clear. Out now on Moda Black.

Buy on Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/release/clear/1148064
Buy on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/clear-ep/id692267014
Buy on vinyl: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/mia-dora-clear/501016-01/

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Clear (DJ T. Remix)

Szabadság

Gyöngyvirág

Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d‘amore

Tita

Hatajo de Negritos (Pasacalle / Paloma Ingrata)

IT'S GONNA WORK OUT ~LIVE 82-83~

EXTRA-ORDINARY - Live 1982 (2022 New Mix and Mastering)

early bird

d d don't

Sun Soon

Pasture patch

Aşk

Rakıya Su Katamam

Ruhail Qaisar - Fatima
Cat. Nr: DN019
Format: DL + 48 page photography & text publication (Urdu / English)
Release Date: January 27, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/fatima

Ruhail Qaisar’s Fatima is a requiem for a dead future. The debut album release by the self-taught artist and producer screams with the trauma and decay of life in his hometown of Leh—a high-altitude plateau region in the contested Ladakh area, extending from the Himalayan to the Kunlun Ranges. Qaisar absorbs this external condition of perpetual conflict between nation states into his internal life and resulting compositions, crossing sound art, noise music and experimental filmmaking. Hauntological drones, power electronics and convulsive post-industrial dissonance create an unnerving sense of fear, anger, and alienation. A broken transistor with a knob tuned to the abyss is bombarded with the cries and bitter laughter of a city’s inhabitants tyrannized, not only by military occupation but the soft-power subjugation of the tourism industry.

Following 2016’s Ltalam EP—released under Qaisar’s now-defunct Sister moniker—Fatima serves to transmit memories carried through the events, local mythos and personal recollections of growing up between the remote agrarian villages of Ladakh and the urban center of its joint capital—Leh. The album was mixed between that area, and a DIY home studio in New Delhi, where the artist amalgamates his collected found sounds and field recordings into unrecognizable hybrids. Discordant pads and atmospherics on the dark ambient of “Daily Hunger” is disrupted by a crashing, pounding reverb, while contributor Elvin Brandhi shrieks towards its horrifying conclusion in the squelching, scratching sound of something soft being chewed.

An anti-lingual conjuring of metaphysical totems in music, Fatima is a seething chronicle of experience through the dynamics of riots, violence, colonization, unemployment, PTSD, and self-abuse. The cycling tumult of “Namgang” hosts a menacing whisper that echoes the hissing fury of something like Einstürzende Neubauten and Lydia Lunch’s “Thirsty Animal,” while a trouncing distorted bass line on “Fatima’s Poplar” circles a voice that barks, "The Western Civilization Show has been discontinued."

The Bunker, New Delhi
Choglamsar Village, Ladakh

Mastering by Rashad Becker
Mixing by Julien Racine
Photography by Rana Ghose
Design by Niels Wehrspann

Fatima

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Ruhail Qaisar - Painter Man (feat. Dis Fig)

Story: Lyrics & Song from the maestro Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin. I've made this edit, it's a bit random, but I loved the tune soo much I had to do a cheeky Sunday edit :)  I hope you don't mind Eoghan! The footage in the video of Ireland is not mine, however it's beautiful, and I wanted to showcase our beautiful Éire!


Lyrics:

Time is a place I wish I could leave
Tomorrow’s cliff looming up at me
Today treading water, lost at sea
Yesterday’s ghosts snapping at my heels

These moneyed men would rule the ashes
They would take our home and melt it down
Pick the gold from the wreck of nature’s palaces
Ah but we have a love they cannot drown

A cry in the hard rain falling
A sick river
A wheezing forest
A choking lake and
A staggering mountain

The bleeding leaves
With their open veins
The screaming trees and
The sobbing flowers

The seething sea
The crumbling reef
The cliffs shed their tears
Into the poisoned ocean

And all gather round
To hear the whales sing
It’s the last whale song
I want to be held

I will love you in the fragments
I’ll tie our love to the last island

Before they privatise the sky
Before they rob us of the dancing wind
Before they sell us back the air we breathe
Ah we’ll find our voice and they’ll hear us sing
Ah we’ll find our voice and they’ll hear us roar


Link to original track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwO2xLhj-V8&ab_channel=Eoghan%C3%93Ceannabh%C3%A1in

Late Junction BBC3 2023

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