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Honour - Àlááfíà
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 121
Release Date: 03 November 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Alaafia

Honour’s debut album is a ligament stretching from Lagos to London and to New York, curling across the diaspora and brushing the darker hues of blues, hip-hop, free jazz, ambient, gospel with Christian mythology and Yoruba folklore. As cinematic as it is painterly, Àlááfíà is a meditation on themes of life, death and love that pulls inspiration from the unexpected poetic profundity of casual conversations, field recordings, literature, ephemera, or personal archives. The result is an impressionistic vision in Black and Blur that both exhausts and implicates language—substantiating a mythos proposed by Fred Moten that sublimates boundaries between everywhere and nowhere; history and the present; the individual and the universal.

Àlááfíà delineates a gothic landscape cut by overdriven beats, swooping orchestral blasts, choral bursts and ear- splitting fuzz, where the fleshly and spiritual realms commune. Dedicated to Honour's late grandmother, the title track began to take form after their last embrace and remains steeped in her influence and spirit—a tape-saturated composition that starts in Lagos and ends in London's smoke-stained cityscape, the song’s dream-like quality developed out of the artist’s grief and PTSD coping with this loss. Beneath the stretched guitar drones and stuttering loops, their grandmother's shared faith bubbles to the surface.

“When Angels Speak of Love,” borrows its title from two works by Sun Ra and bell hooks, respectively. Sculpting echoes of praise music into disorienting spirals perforated with syrupy DJ Screw-inspired breaks and sharp splinters of melancholic guitar, “When Angels Speak of Love” engages a conceptual dialogue with the spirits of both late thinkers, folding them into Honour’s pantheon of ancestral guides. The album’s ninth track, “Giz Aard ($uckets),” is a dirge of regimented drums which anchor this somber melody as it whirls into a blizzard of heartache, uncertain if its consequence will be death or eternal joy.

The album’s sole lyrical offering, “Pistol Poem (Lead Belly),” begins with a darkly humorous bar, “He went thru hell and back/ came back/ 2 get the strap,” that swells into a haunting allegory based on the life of Philip “Hot Sauce” Champion. A modern take on the Blues, Honour’s lyrics reify the artist’s status as a student of both literature and popular culture, crossbreeding the artist’s clever wordplay with additional references to Richard Pryor, Robert Johnson, Kelly Rowland & Bryon Gysin.

Setting core principles of hip-hop, R&B, jazz and gospel music to atemporal soundscapes and compositions, Honour crafts a record that marinates in its own knotty contradictions. The ghosts that sit on the artist’s shoulders have never been more tangible than with this emotive debut.

Built and destroyed by Honour
Additional production by Bridgegroom
Mixed by Honour
Mastered by Jason Goz
Artwork by Honour

Honour - ILLBETHERE, 4EVERANDEVER (PAN 121)

FREE PALESTINE
CEASEFIRE NOW

https://paralaxe-editions.bandcamp.com/album/for-palestine

"Hello. My name is Dania and I run the Paralaxe Editions label. Outside of this, I am also an Emergency Medicine doctor and an Arab in the diaspora. Growing up, Palestine was a frequent topic of conversation in my home. What is happening now is not a new conflict. The horrific images we are currently seeing in Gaza are simply the latest manifestation of an oppressive system that dates back decades. I'm usually a private person, but as a doctor, a woman and an Arab whose whole life was uprooted by war and Western imperialism, leaving me displaced from my homeland, I feel compelled to act in the face of a situation that seems increasingly dire by the day.

Looking to make some kind of positive contribution, I've reached out to friends, colleagues and fellow artists from a variety of geographic, social and ethnic backgrounds, asking if they would donate some of their music to a fundraiser compilation.

'For Palestine' is that compilation and I hope that the breadth of the participants involved helps to underscore the severity of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and in Palestine in general.

All proceeds will go to Médecins Sans Frontières. This charity has been chosen as the benefactor as I am not only familiar with their mission statement and field work, but many of my medical colleagues have directly worked with the organisation in different locations around the globe. MSF currently has doctors and staff on the ground in Gaza, and they are actively working to treat patients and get desperately needed supplies across the border.

On top of the music, I've also teamed up with Oficina de Disseny to create a special print. Printed at L'automatica in Barcelona as part of a collective printing effort, 600 posters were produced in total, though a majority have been (and will continue to be) distributed freely at protests in Barcelona. A small quantity, however, are on sale here. Unfortunately, they are available to EU customers only. (Some additional copies will also be available at Paralaxe Editions' showcase at Cafe Oto in London on November 7.)

We ask you to please donate generously to the compilation.

There is no freedom until we're all free."

Curated by Dania.
All tracks mastered by Rupert Clervaux except:
Track 16 mastered by Daphne X.
Track 37 mastered by Emre.
Tracks 1, 5, 7, 12, 20, 25, 29, 30, 32, 33, 39, 40, 44, 46, 51, 53, 54, 57 mastered by Gynn Maier.

Artwork by Oficina de Disseny
Done in collaboration with IF Publications, L'automatica
Printed at L'automatica, Barcelona.

Special thanks to Abdallah Taher, Ailo Ribas, Laura Coromina, Helga Juárez, and my cousin Warda.

Special note: Some artists have elected to use pseudonyms as they have visas that maybe affected by this compilation.

For Palestine

Fight (Paralaxe Editions)

@p1111111 - 16'00"
Live at Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, 25th February 2023. 
Recorded by Benjamin Pagier and Louis Jos. 
Deardogs archives. 
archive.org/details/p-1111111-live

p1111111 - 16'00"

The signal is strong, send to all. Widegaze, post-beat, freneticisms and hoover – Body Motion plugs in sideways to decode one layer of cogent reality at a time. Parallel paradigms, monthly on NTS1 
https://www.nts.live/shows/body-motion/episodes/body-motion-dawn-29th-december-2023

Body Motion w/ Dawn 291223

mastering by audiodrag
cover by ratx.cc

@mx-tune

k1nd4

mxtune - jmn_m3

"Aethernal Score’’, Aisha Devi’s commission for the BBC Concert Orchestra, is an attempt to intensify the vibrational capacities of the orchestra and divert the expected course of classical-electronic collaboration. Devi has always used her art to push against cultural presumptions, so it made sense to assemble the initial framework for the piece from some of her acclaimed back catalogue, meshing it with new compositions and reworking everything with orchestral elements that follow Devi's radical metaphysical and theoretical guidelines. It's best described as a twenty-minute "mixtape" that embodies the connections between the concert hall, the club and the sacred ritual - or even a demonstration of the orchestra's hidden potential.

Inspired by her Himalayan heritage, Devi has been exploring the entrancing sonic application of monastic practices such as throat singing for many years, as well as developing psychoacoustic methods. This led her to perceive sound as a way of expanding brain activity - something that also plays a shrouded role in the world of chamber music. Applying this to the orchestra, she began thinking about each instrument as a discrete frequency range, searching for its ethereal properties rather than fixating on an object saddled with cultural baggage. Using the density, amplitude and vibrational impact of the sounds in unison, Devi was able to summon the club environment, seizing that space's inherent power - Devi was making orchestral rave.

Two versions of the score are included on the release, one orchestrated in collaboration with Robert Ames and conducted by André de Ridder, performed on October 29, 2021 with the BBC Concert Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth Hall which was commissioned by Elizabeth Alker for Unclassified Live, and the purely electronic version - the synthetic backbone of the composition. Both are very different, and listened to together highlight the transformative power of instrumentation. The result is like a purge of history and hierarchy, with tools of colonization hollowed-out and fashioned into new shapes. A clash of grandeur and sensitivity, and a live deconstruction of the artistic ego, "Aethernal Score" is transcendent re-evaluation of classical and electronic sounds that doesn't just make you think, it makes you resonate.

Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Metropolis.

Aïsha Devi - Aethernal Binaural [excerpt]

Closing track for @lowincomesquad 's various artists tape #16.
https://lowincomesquad.bandcamp.com/album/li-016

(DJ Loser, DJ Speedsick, DRAAG, Emma DJ, HAJJ, Ismael, Jaclyn Kendall, Julien Andreas, SSSS, Xiao Quan and Zoë Mc Pherson)
Curated by @strahinja-arbutina
Mastered by True Hd from @maison-studio

There is no ending 4 a Grim (LI​$​016)

Out now>> https://theyouthlabel.bandcamp.com/album/ssiege-fading-summer-yocs2

SSIEGE - Fading Summer - YOCS2 - YOUTH

@ssiege

01 - Turbe In Sviluppo
02 - A Man
03 - Angelo Azzurro
04 - Biscotti 180
05 - Regina
06 - Boxe
07 - Chromatic
08 - Delete Instagram
09 - Swan
10 - Paradise Channel
11 - Novo Eden
12 - Blind

Limited edition cassette on YOUTH.

https://soundcloud.com/ssiege

SSIEGE - Fading Summer - YOCS2 - YOUTH (Clips)

UK record label based at fabric, East London. Run in part by Rob Booth (Electronic Explorations)

Aïsha Devi - Aethernal Binaural [excerpt]

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