HD+7 Rd9 Bs analog mix Tape - Track 1 (6)

Taken from @saintabdullah & @eomac new album Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you, out April 4, 2024, via @drownedbylocals.

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Saint Abdullah & Eomac rekindle their longstanding collaboration in this fiery new release sourced from the multiple cultural references and personal stories of its producers.

In their third installment entitled “Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you”, the New York-based Iranian-Canadian siblings Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh aka Saint Abdullah & Wicklow-based Irish producer Ian McDonnell aka Eomac continue their exploration of sounds and rhythms through an expansive use of sampling and heavy distorted beats. Passionately curious about diverse vocal and musical cultures as well as their own, the trio began their long-distance collaboration in 2019, releasing their first two albums, “Patience of a Traitor ” (Other People) and “Chasing Stateless” (Planet Mu) in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

The trio recorded the album as the world witnessed the genocide on Gaza, Mohammad notes that all tracks were “recorded within a few weeks in October after the war broke out as we tried to keep our heads above water.” The sound of Saint Abdullah is characterized by a keen interest to challenge cultural perceptions and expectations of diasporic narratives, by foregrounding sounds, field recordings, and sacred and profane music from the multiple worlds they belong to. They pay homage to the distinct influences, however sonically and culturally disparate, that have permeated their records and musical process so far. Together with Eomac, they continue a conversation shaped by their ever-growing sonic heritage and shared musical affinities. The inclusion of field recordings for example, often personal ones, are not ornamental but are integral parts of the whole album in which vocal samples are both used in moments of release or through thrusts of heavy beats, continually mirroring a state of unease.…

Reflecting on the recording process, Eomac notes that: “There is a strong influence and inspiration from hip-hop culture here. The beat-tape in particular. It’s rough, raw; rhythms are direct and not overthought. The beats are heavy and distorted for the most part, often shifting and changing throughout a single track. This brings an intentional “ungroundedness” to the record and a sense of tension.” Echoing this state of unsteadiness, Mohammad writes in a poem during the recording: “Those in the diaspora, are those that have left their home, by force, by will, somewhere in between. Are we the connective tissue that makes things more interesting?” Tracks like 'Bitch, I am Islam’ and ‘Rocknrallah’ relieve some of the sense of disorientation but are no less poignant. In the former, 'Bitch, I am Islam', Mohammad uses old personal recordings of his sisters reciting the Quran or repeating Iranian revolutionary chants like “War war, until victory”, an acknowledgment of the worlds they left behind and the ones that need building. In ‘Rocknrallah’ Abdel Ja7eem Hafeth sings a rendition of the 1933 American standard tune ‘Smoke gets in your eyes’ only to evoke the smoke coming out of Gaza.

The record also features fellow Iranian artists in the diaspora, musician and sound artist based in Paris Cinna Peyghamy and club experimentalist Aria Rostami. Ian Bruner, who worked on the album’s artwork, created a composite of the different elements and motifs that form the album, an image of arduous travel towards the mirage of Americana. In this historic period of grief and anger, ‘Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you’ musically and conceptually engages world systems and beliefs through the experiences and stories of its producers.

Artwork by Ian Bruner

Mastered by Rashad Becker

Released by Drowned By Locals

Premiere: Saint Abdullah & Eomac - Overexposure will kill a pornstar [Drowned By Locals]

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art by Julia Sachs

part of the limited edition Stone set, www.candle-object.com

outsidenightair - Stone Mix

…s n…: is a slim suite of popular ballads in the genre of fluctuating sentiment. And how silence can act as an incandescent absence.

Tracklist
Collage: Frank Denyer, Broken Music; Wile E Coyote and The Road Runner In Lickety-Splat; Geir Jenssen, Cho Oyu 8201m Field Recordings From Tibet; Two Cats Murmur Like Avatars of Intimate Exchange
Lee Hazlewood: My Autumn’s Done Come
Collage: Tascam Feedback; Frank Denyer, Broken Music
Patsy Cline: Crazy [Misrembered Pitch Edit]
Collage: Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Tascam Feedback
Doris: Hennessy & Candy Cane
Collage: Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Cackling Witches; downgraded, Chubut province
Doris: half n half Arizona  [Misrembered Pitch Edit]
Collage: Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Cackling Witches; 
DJ Muggs: Shit I’m On Instrumental
Collage: Tascam Feedback; Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Frank Denyer, Broken Music; Abe’s Odysee Menu [Scarborough 1998 Gimme **** Shelter Banjo Kazooie Edit]
Nina Simone: Feelings
Collage: Frank Denyer, Broken Music; Geir Jenssen, Cho Oyu 8201m Field Recordings From Tibet;
Elvis: Love Me
Collage: Tascam Feedback; Ay-O, Fluxus Song; 
Aaron Neville: Tell It Like It Is [Polyphonic Doubt Edit]
Collage: Bernard Gunter, Untitled I/ 92; Ay-O, Fluxus Song; 
Bobby Charles: I Hope

[sic] line III: …s n…

jamming with my friend in Baires, i play drums, KA on max msp
released on CREWQ <3

https://www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/music-for-various-artists-works

yeko_2 (feat KA)

Final Fantasy (music to make out to on doomsday)

reah

this is urrovlp01,
a selection made from the digital release that global aphasia made last year.
we have been selecting a few for this for a while now.
prolly will be a few more releases like this on the way, cause i think these works need a release on vinyl.

i deeply love your work, zane :)
all the best, dom micomu

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urrovlp01 - global aphasia - 12" snippets - out 07/25

Shadow Festival 3 (2013)

Think again or not at all

20 Minutes That You Can't Have Back

I identify as synth, tweak my knob - do I not squeal?

pastoral/town and country/beyond

Releases on Bohemian Club & Travin Systems.
Supported by the acid ted, music junkies & deXter bentley.

Props to everyone I've ever met.

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