Name: Bloodwork by James Lowrie
Duration: 7 min 42 s
Description: Performed by the Rolson String Quartet in January 2019

There are times In the carreer of a top international DJ/Producer where things get a little bit out of control. Times when the glitter, the glam and the fame get a little out of hand. Times when the whole "travelling from the hotel to the jet, and from the jet to the 5000 capacity venue via a helicopter made of gold" - thing kinda blurs one's vision of day to day reality. In times like these, it's important for said DJ/Producer to take a step back, return to anonymity and focus on the music that keeps the underground clubs buzzing. The sweaty, dirty, forward-thinking, genre-defying, risk-taking house music that drives the cool kids crazy. That is exactly what the mysterious entity hiding behind GUCCI VUMP is doing with the release of Sha! Shtil!, The Boogiemanand Casablanco on Sound Pellegrino. 

If we wanted to tell you who Gucci Vump was, let's just say we get into some big fat legal trouble with legions of record company people, managers and agents and it would cause an unprecedented diplomatic incident. He is such an important and heavy money-generating figure in the international DJ scene that every piece of information regarding every single one of his release shakes the whole industry up. It's an amazing and exciting thing but we feel that such a media tsunami would turn Sound Pellegrino into a relentless money-making-attention-grabbing-hype-creating machine and ultimately cause more harm than good to the label. The humble little craftsmen of house music that we are much prefer to keep it on the down low. Therefore Gucci Vump's mysterious identity shall not be revealed. 

Evidently there has been a lot of talk and speculation surrounding this release and the identity behind the alias "Gucci Vump". People have not quite nailed it yet and all the names that have been thrown around the internet in the last couple of months have all revealed themselves to be phoney. The mystery remains, and the buzz is growing, as gucci vump appears to be playlisted by more and more VIP DJs from around the globe, leaving people asking "who is this guy and what the hell is a Vump?". Mystery and controversy are one thing but when it comes to the music itself, Gucci Vump delivers. 

Sha! Shtil! was inspired by a traditional Klezmer song telling the story of a Rabbi dancing like a madman to get rid of the demon in him. According to the general feedback we received, from tastemakers to regular weekend clubbers, the track is a smash hit capable of pleasing every dancefloor. People are just too happy to hear that lady sing in Yiddish, and the production is so crisp, it makes it the perfect tool for every dj to turn the techno party into RABBI-DOME VOLUME FIVE. 

Totally in touch with the current interest in local scenes and the merging of fhe folkloric and the futuristic, gucci vump adds a political dimension to the "conceptual sample" game by using bits and pieces from both Jewish (as we heard with Sha! Shtil!) and Arabic traditional music on the same EP. The Boogieman could be the background for a fantasy Indiana Jones pursuit scene in a bazaar that ends up in an indian pit of snakes. And when he received Casablanco Orgasmic instantly described it as "Raï meets UK Funky". The comparison is a little bit "pulling it by the hair" as we say in French, but the tracks are two immense bangers. 

On remix duties we have the man of the moment L-VIS 1990, known for his recent releases on Mad Decent and Dress2Sweat, building anticipation for his forthcoming Sound Pellegrino release Compass/Zahonda by providing a deadly yet classy take on "Sha, Shtil!" including one of the most venimous typhoon-shaped basslines heard in a while. Last but not least, Downtown, one half of star duo Renaissance Man, re-invents The Boogieman as a brilliant dubby tech house odyssey complete with sitar stabs and menacing howling noises, a guaranteed hit on deeper dancefloors.

G. Vump - Sha! Shtil!

composed by Martin Arnold (1995)
performed by:
Natalie Michaud: soprano recorder
Alain Trudel: sackbut
Geneviève Soly: positive organ

Mole Meander

C78 [S,A,T,B]
Sarah Richards - Soprano
Kristina Boerger - Alto
Thom Baker - Tenor
Russell H Holbert - Bass
text by Gertrude Stein
August 1st 2021, online performance

Created in collaboration with zFestival 2021
https://zfestival.wordpress.com/

If I Told Him

Lyrics

I saw what happened to your beans
I drank them up
I drank them up

I saw what happened to your beans
I drank them up
I drank them up

I saw what happened to your beans (I know what happened to your beans) 
I drank them up
I drank them up

I saw what happened to your beans (I know what happened to your beans) 
I drank them up
I drank them up

i saw what happened to your beans

I actually like this song but I didn't see any results when I searched it up so I put it up myself.

I've Been In The Hills Fucking Dudes

Ensemble: Decibel
Mixed by: Veronika Tabakova

Based on the letter I

Not a song. A thing to block this site from thinking for you.

buffer to block soundcloud's capitalistic autoplay of socalled related tracks

Performed by the Rolson String Quartet in January 2019

Bloodwork

On July 17, 2020, Second Note Duo (Gabriel Costache and Will Richards) gave the world premiere of Kalimba Canon (1999). It was the final composition presented in their socially distanced, video recital A Day in the Life. Funds were donated to the Black Legal Action Centre.

Two alto kalimbas play identical melodic loops, with the second kalimba echoing several beats behind the first, to create a composite musical line. Minimalism in miniature.

https://elmahboob.com/2020/07/24/kalimba-canon-premiere/

Composed January 1999
Recorded and premiered July 2020

Photo: team KC reunion at home, July 2020

Music and composers’s notes copyright Bruce A. Russell 2020

Kalimba Canon

2020.11.10.

This is a 10 minute sampler that includes three excerpts from Unsound on Sound

Bloodwork

James Lowrie

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