A few last thoughts

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Winter Shelter—Dark Immersive Ambient (1)

Having formed over ten years ago, as teenagers, Nantes duo Simon Puiroux (electronics and sax) and Charles Dubois (percussion) construct the music of Humbros on a semi-improvised framework. Rhythmic patterns, samples and melodic phrases act as marker points along each piece’s winding, free-flowing narrative, a musical communication honed over their years of collaboration to reach From 0 to 90’s clairvoyant levels of improvisational understanding.

The record’s wealth of exploratory sonics stems from Humbros’ unique combination of acoustic and electronic instrumentation. Puiroux and Dubois line up recogniseable toms, congas, bells, and exotic wind instruments alongside a cryptic treasury of more curious artefacts: sound-distorting mirrors, wood, skins, metals, voice processors, and percussive stringed instruments. Combined with Puiroux’s modular synthesis and treated saxophone, this journey from heady, pulsating polyrhythms to sparse, chirruping insects of tropical concréte digs deep into hypnotic, meditative textures (they are never “jams”) whilst maintaining a deeply philosophical, conceptual relationship with the energies generated.

Constantly positioned in an intersection, in balance between acoustic and electronic sound, Humbros acts as an exploration of the “in-between”, produced by the marriage of two distinct timbral approaches. They sit between repetitive minimalism and illuminative free-jazz; between angular patterns and lysergic, dripping textures; human fragility and sci-fi sound-design.

From 0 to 90 was recorded over the duration of a week at the end of 2019. Working in their own self-constructed studio, Piuroux and Dubois set about creating a record relatively lighter and quieter than their live performances. Stacking textures, landscapes, structures and “lots of objects hitted with stuffs of all kinds”, the album traces the evolution of living beings - the numbers of its title refer to the angles at which organic life has been orientated, from crawling to standing. “We have passed through different shapes, landscapes and elements (a wispy swamp, an aquarium, a wet skate park, a thick cloud, a medieval kennel…),” they write.

Spending much of their musical career more visible in concert than in recording, Humbros have experienced - and reflected on the theory and the form of - the live performance as a medium since their inception. They have performed in a multitude of concert formats: nightclubs, village halls, an empty highway bridge, abandoned factories, art galleries, vineyard cellars, festivals and across France’s vibrant network of DIY venues. Their first recorded works - the self-recorded demo Night of the Toacas - emerged on Bandcamp in 2018 and immediately caught the ear of Phantom Limb’s A&R department.

From 0 to 90’s will be released in July, 2020

Humbros - Bois Debout [radio edit]

A1 from "Falling Frontwards Into Pincers" EP out now on Great Curve (@greatcurverecords)

Mastered by Rupert Clervaux
Artwork by Max Jedwab
Distribution by Rubadub

Download code included with record.
Available from:

Rubadub: bit.ly/2WFRQlp
Bleep: bit.ly/2JdFnxy
Phonica: bit.ly/30Is3ZD
Juno: bit.ly/2G9cMb9
Redeye: bit.ly/2ReRzCO
deejay.de: bit.ly/2G9Am7p
HHV: bit.ly/2Ggbk6x
Chez Emile: bit.ly/3auglq1
Syncrophone: bit.ly/2trEVrb
Disco Piu: bit.ly/3dolim1
Newtone: bit.ly/39pzszU

Digitals on bandcamp: greatcurve.bandcamp.com/releases

Falling Frontwards Into Pincers

Andrew Pekler - Encounter

Taken from Fé/Vazio [ELP051] out 07/08/20

Properly mazy rhythmic psychedelia from Lisbon’s Serpente who comes back to Ecstatic Recordings pursuing the spirits of Alice Coltrane and Don Cherry via Fourth World gateways and the spiralling broken beat vortices of Anthony Shakir, following on from that killer LinnDrum tribute to Prince’s ‘Parade’ album last summer.

A direct reference to Dischord’s legendary Faith/Void split album, Fé/Vazio draws thrilling, jagged lines between the ground-breaking jazz fusions of the ‘60s-‘70s and the Afro-Futurist pinnacles of ’90 Detroit and UK-based techno and their offshoots; broken beat, jungle, and “IDM”. 

His style broadly collapses the psychedelia of his work as Ondness (Where To Now?, Holuzam, Sucata Tapes) into a more ravishing and arguably vital sound that frames a modern state of mind between dystopian paranoia and utopian freedom.

Like last year’s cultishly acclaimed Parada (Ecstatic Recordings, ELP044), 'Fé / Vazio' comes to restlessly fulfil a physical and spiritual need for this kind of music right now; it sidewinds into chaotic multiples of polymetric rhythms, hypnotic drone and curious folk hooks that somehow gel with a fractious, rhythmelodic coherence that rudely acknowledges all that came before it. 

Track to track Bruno recalls the kaotic harmonies of Derrick May as much as Anthony Shakir’s sleight drum edits in ‘Nível De Fumo’, and the Reinforced cosmic rolige of Colin Lindo (Alpha Omega/Nubian Mindz) or 4Hero - who were no strangers to the promise of spiritual jazz music and the Afro-Latin codes of Brazilian music - in ‘Em Sendo’, while the reticulated hot steppers ‘Visitação’ and ‘Escalpe’ seamlessly bind roots and futurism in a singular, headlong style and the scudding ‘90s techno/IDM tone of ‘Razia’ surely recalls the rhythmic ingenuity and modern blueness of early Autechre. 

It's a record that feels unlocked and cosmically free compared with so much rictus, floor-based music, but with a grit and colour that can’t be denied on (currently imaginary) dance floors.

Buy!

Serpente - Rainhas [ELP051]

Pour cette nouvelle saison et le seizième épisode de Feng Shit, nous accueillons le duo parisien @dhakira . Amalia Jaulin et Sinan Varis forment un projet peu commun ou Space et sound design se mélangent dans une noirceur atmosphérique et une poésie nébuleuse. Le duo nous offre une heure de leur propres productions sillonants entre dark ambient, glitch et spoken-word. Pérégrinations au travers d'un fin chemin bordé de coquelicots noirs et d'une brume épaisse, où s'agitent des âmes de tous horizons.

For this new season and the 16th Feng Shit's episode, we are welcoming the parisian duo Dhakira. Amalia Jaulin and Sinan Varis own a really special project mixing space and sound design in a dark breeze and  poetic galaxy. The duo drives us into them own music where dark ambient, glitch and spoken-words are struggling. A deep side walk on a little path bordered by black poppy and a thick fog...

https://lyl.live/show/feng-shit/

TRACKLIST
DHAKIRA – El Bosque Del Alma
DHAKIRA – Heat Wave
DHAKIRA –  No One Can Take Our Memories 
DHAKIRA – Extrait de sound design réalisé pour le court métrage “Les voies soutterraines”
DHAKIRA – Larsen du temps 
DHAKIRA – extrait de sound design réalisé pour le court métrage “Les voies soutterraines” 
DHAKIRA – La possibilité d’un après 
DHAKIRA – Sérendipité 
DHAKIRA – Passage d’une confidence présent sur “Babamın Korunması” 
DHAKIRA – I Need To Let It Go 
DHAKIRA – El Dolor Del Mundo
DHAKIRA – Symphonie Neuronale
DHAKIRA –  Linéarité imposée
DHAKIRA – El Dolor Del Mundo (second excerpt)

Feng Shit #16 w/ Dhakira

Listen to more K.L. Mai here >>> @b_pd 
Full tracklist is available here >>> https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/cloud-cover/2020-09-24/
Thank you K.L. Mai for coming on the show ❤️
Artwork by Sunny Lei

CC043 - K.L. Mai

f013 - °w°s — jet set radio

Taken from the album 'Teum (The Silvery Slit)' released as LP and Digital

Andrew Pekler - Encounter

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