This is a truly inspired and inspiring remix of a special kind! I love this evocative piece! Your remix transports Penny Yon’s painful story of a “mixed race” Zimbabwean to another level and, “extracts” the painful awakening of the people after independence that Colonialism was not over, but in fact continuing in new guises…

- though, there’s a “tongue in cheek” too, things are never one-dimensional… the sound of coffee-making sounds like an explosion to the mic, carrying a history of colonial exploitation, but “the ritual of coffee-making is bringing people together”… telling their stories…

Lived too long

Remix made in the frame of “The Women of the Great River” project / Radio Continental Drift. The voice speaking is from  Zimbabwe musician Penny Yon, who lived for many years in Binga. 

I put the original voice recording on microcassette and mixed it with my coffeepot coming to a boil. By moving the microphone and tape deck around the stove the sounds of voice, tape, gas and boiling coffee blend together in a distorted murmur. 

I choose these particular sounds and the social/economical/political issues they are linked to; gas extraction, transportation of coffee beans and (the history of) colonization as a situation that is still 'boiling'.

But I also wanted to refer to the ritual of coffee making and how it brings people together to share thoughts and conversation in an intimate and familiar way.

COLONIAL HANGOVER / coming to a boil

Made with no-input feedback mixer and Kaoss Pad 1. Inspired by the way environmental sounds happen. Different lines of actions happen at the same time, sometimes interacting, sometimes just happening.

Md4kp1

Allegretto is ongeveer gelukt. Over de andere twee ben ik niet zo content; alles wat ik had gemaakt tijdens de middag was plots weg en ik ben vergeten wat ik had. Dit is wat ik al heb, maar ik denk dat ik er een ander keertje terug aan ga werken, nu ben ik het even beu en heb geen inspiratie meer.

Poetico

Lento Irrealmente

Allegretto

Traverser sa manche

FR.
Il y a les chhhhh,
Xchhh', qui s'expriment difficilement
Puis des parois qui nous tunnels
des bruissements salissants

Un mot tente de s'extirper,
frotte frotte, 
glisse - l'anicroche - glisse
puis s'écorche,
s'écorche en corps

Puis finalement s'extirpe. 

Sortie - Fin - Début d'une autre manche - 

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EN.
Sleeve Crossing 

Do you hear these "shhhhhrrr" ,
Xchh ', difficult to articulate in your mouth 
A mouth as many walls, 
A mouth as many tunnels
dirty rustlings
A word attempts to extirpate
rubbing and rubbing,
sliding 
 - hitch - 
sliding
 - hitch -

skinned,
body flayed 
Then finally
Oozes out.


Exit - Ending - Beginning of another race -

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Crédit 
Réalisation : Anne Lepère 
Durée : 3'48

Prod - Radio Moniek - émission spéciale Papier Machine - Janvier 2016 
Diffusion Radio Campus Bruxelles 

Part of the female:pressure / solidarity campaign for the canton of #Rojava (located in northern Syria), where women participate on all levels of decision making and building a new society from scratch, with built-in social, racial and ethnic justice, religious freedom, ecological principles and gender equality.


Manche

Awareness & solidarity with #Rojava by female:pressure
www.femalepressure.net/rojava.html

Kurdish inspired danceable music for celebration and driving energy.

Samples from traditional instruments Kemençe, Def and Zirne.

Unmastered version

Ishtar - Rojava compilation via Female:Pressure

On the 11th of May 2016 'They lost a furry mic' on the Orkney Islands in Scotland and it's disappearance was announced on national radio.

I took a sample from the reporters voice from the original BBC 2 newsflash and made this thrilling piece about their lost 'furry haggis'.

Few days later they found it back 'cunningly disguised as a ragstone on a Sandwick dyke...' 




COLONIAL HANGOVER / coming to a boil

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