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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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Break Up W/ Kerzn w/ xleepyfay (19.02.2023)

'PATAPHYSICS in 2023

Last summer I experienced a night of intense and persistent sleep paralysis, with this hallucinating sensation that a very evil force was roaming around me. It embodied in the form of a violent wind rushing in my room to carry me off. As soon as I was going back to sleep, the same scene was starting again and I couldn't fight against it.

I tried to reproduce the sensations I had during this peculiar night through this sound collage piece, which is full of dark ambient, drone and gloomy experimental sounds.

tracklist
Sally Decker - The Other Side
Angelo Harmsworth - A Twofold Excess 
James K - Don't Walk on the Dunes
Mélodie Blaison - Rose Cielo
S S S S - Deserter
Daniela Lalita - Trececerotres
Lucrecia Dalt - Suprema
Fuimadane - Bautarsteinn
nthng - Disappeared but Not Forgotten
Felicia Atkinson - Everything Evaporates
Petit Singe - Komm Wieder Mit
James K - Teen Cruelty
Kali Malone - Arched in Hysteria
Current Joy - Life Is Beautiful
Plastre - Fatigue de la lumière
Drew McDowall feat. Kali Malone - Agalma V
Felicia Atkinson - This Is the Gate

le vent me veut du mal

FH HF [11.05.2023]

TRABL

16 Faces is on remix duty for the elusive up and coming techno hermit Alpha Delta of his debut release "The Moat" on Delphic Iris Records. Complex drum work and funk driven baselines bring a unique broken energy to this 146 bpm hybrid bass jam.

One large dose of 90s rave channeling early prodigy, a hint of IDM rhythm and drums and just a touch of uk bass bottom end bring forth something as dance floor as it is heady. Nostalgic yet innovative. 

The off beat rave stabs and euphoric synth strings are plentiful, there is more than enough in here to get your through any wobbly kneed sunrise at a loose summer festival.

Alpha Delta - The Moat (16 Faces 5am Mix)

off split LP with sist en 343, released by 4 labels (debila records, i shot god, noise mafia, [&]) in a small edition (number unconfirmed), black vinyl, with a lengthy text insert...

the track-title is inspired by the mighty AMEBIX

thinking future coexistence

the darkest hour (xcrpt) off "thinking future coexistence" split LP

Bedouin Records w/ Lý Trang - 21/10/2023

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TRANSISTOR

hand-made synthesisers & contingent rabbit holes

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