Icahera — 'Symbol Drama'

SLA24: 'Symbol Drama' by @icahera

Type: EP
Format: Digital
Releasedate: March 28th
Cat. number: SLA24
Artwork: Jaan Pavliuk
Master: Joel Krozer

‘Symbol Drama’ is London-based, Estonian artist Icahera’s Slagwerk debut.

Three tightly coiled portals to control and release within. It begins with the low-lidded smokestream on ‘Dusk’, bringing with it all the tension and temptation of a nocturnal ride through the glimmer and grime of a sinister, teeming metropolis. The hyper-disciplined body-lock of ‘Re-amp’ brings motion — crosshairs calibrated, levitating, a state of flow beyond conscious thought. It’s primal and physical, subtly smeared textures over Villaloban drumwork that moves and swings and propels forward with intent beyond the banality of conscious thought.

Per the artist, this is “music for an imagined club space”. Closer ‘Nylon’ brings the space to full being: darkness and concrete, scuffed surfaces and sweat, a place where shadows thrive and bodies surge with synthetic inputs and newfound sensations. Strains of dub and progressive house and techno run through this music like chemicals through blood — ‘Symbol Drama is body music, it’s music that’s serious about pleasure.
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Icahera — 'Nylon' (SLA24)

From 'Symbol Drama', out March 28th on Slagwerk.

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It's not going to plan. I can tell. Wreckage defines you, rubble becomes you. What a mess, dude. What could've been. It'd be tragic if you'd ever had real prospects. Not much to salvage, there never really was. Forgotten by God. Remembered: Icahera's 'Re-Amp', out on Slagwerk, premiered by Madjestic Kasual. There's hope for you still. Maybe if you listen to it, like it, repost it, share it widely and relentlessly. Yes, yes. It's becoming clear now. A spark in you yet. Some faint reason. But a reason nonetheless.