Kuedo: The Sprawl OST (Knives)
Release date: July 3rd, 2020

Kuedo makes his return to Knives with The Sprawl OST – a selection of original recordings made for Metahaven’s documentary film The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda), which premiered as an installation at YBCA San Francisco in 2015 and saw its cinema premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in early 2016.

Mirroring his earlier Kuedo release for Knives, Assertion Of A Surrounding Presence – whose tracks also feature heavily throughout the film – The Sprawl OST continues to reflect upon themes such as surveillance and the platforms of digital propaganda: elements of the film that also have played a role in Metahaven's own expansive art practice. Stylistically, The Sprawl OST demonstrates the range of Kuedo's application and ability– ranging from material that evokes a cinematic take on his 8-bar square-wave roughness as half of duo, Vex'd (Story of The Wolf), and glides through the continuum's residue up to the point of blissed out, widescreen ascension (Floating Megastructure), recalling Kenji Kawai's soundtrack masterworks.

Metahaven's “The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda)” emerged before the Trump presidency, and took as its starting point the mass invasion of social media by state propaganda outlets in the wake of the Arab Spring, suggesting more structural interconnections between geopolitics and software.

Available exclusively on Bandcamp, 100% of sales until August 31st 2020 will be split between the NAACP Legal Defense Fund & Black Lives Matter UK, who are currently raising money for their work with Black communities, which includes developing strategies in the face of police brutality, and supporting the families of Black people killed at the hands of the British police.

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Kuedo - The Sprawl OST (KNV008)

Kuedo – The Sprawl

From 'Kuedo - The Sprawl OST' out 3rd July 2020 on Knives. 
Pre order now from www.k-n-i-v-e-s.bandcamp.com/

Kuedo (Jamie Teasdale) makes his return to Knives with 'The Sprawl OST' – a selection of original recordings made for Metahaven’s documentary film 'The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda)', which premiered as an installation at YBCA San Francisco in 2015 and saw its cinema premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in early 2016.

Mirroring his earlier Kuedo release for Knives, 'Assertion Of A Surrounding Presence' – whose tracks also feature heavily throughout the film – 'The Sprawl OST' continues to reflect upon themes such as surveillance and the platforms of digital propaganda: elements of the film that also have played a role in Metahaven's own expansive art practice. Stylistically, The Sprawl OST demonstrates the range of Teasdale's application and ability– ranging from material that evokes a cinematic take on his 8-bar square-wave roughness as half of duo, Vex'd ('Story of The Wolf'), and glides through the continuum's residue up to the point of blissed out, widescreen ascension ('Floating Megastructure'), recalling Kenji Kawai's soundtrack masterworks.

Metahaven's 'The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda)' emerged before the Trump presidency, and took as its starting point the mass invasion of social media by state propaganda outlets in the wake of the Arab Spring, suggesting more structural interconnections between geopolitics and software.

100% of sales until 31st August 2020 will be split between the NAACP Legal Defense Fund & Black Lives Matter UK, who are currently raising money for their work with Black communities, which includes developing strategies in the face of police brutality, and supporting the families of Black people killed at the hands of the British police.

The Sprawl OST

Kuedo - Story Of The Wolf

From 'Kuedo - The Sprawl OST' out 3rd July 2020 on Knives.
Pre order now from www.k-n-i-v-e-s.bandcamp.com/

Kuedo (Jamie Teasdale) makes his return to Knives with 'The Sprawl OST' – a selection of original recordings made for Metahaven’s documentary film 'The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda)', which premiered as an installation at YBCA San Francisco in 2015 and saw its cinema premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in early 2016.

Mirroring his earlier Kuedo release for Knives, 'Assertion Of A Surrounding Presence' – whose tracks also feature heavily throughout the film – 'The Sprawl OST' continues to reflect upon themes such as surveillance and the platforms of digital propaganda: elements of the film that also have played a role in Metahaven's own expansive art practice. Stylistically, The Sprawl OST demonstrates the range of Teasdale's application and ability– ranging from material that evokes a cinematic take on his 8-bar square-wave roughness as half of duo, Vex'd ('Story of The Wolf'), and glides through the continuum's residue up to the point of blissed out, widescreen ascension ('Floating Megastructure'), recalling Kenji Kawai's soundtrack masterworks.

Metahaven's 'The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda)' emerged before the Trump presidency, and took as its starting point the mass invasion of social media by state propaganda outlets in the wake of the Arab Spring, suggesting more structural interconnections between geopolitics and software.

100% of sales until 31st August 2020 will be split between the NAACP Legal Defense Fund & Black Lives Matter UK, who are currently raising money for their work with Black communities, which includes developing strategies in the face of police brutality, and supporting the families of Black people killed at the hands of the British police.

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