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Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve - The Stranger
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 134
Release Date: 21 April 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/TheStranger

Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga and Tapiwa Svosve share 'The Stranger', the first single from the upcoming full-length album 'The Sport of Love' out via PAN on May 26th.

On The Sport of Love, seasoned collaborators Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga and Tapiwa Svosve consider the language, competition and contradiction of modern romance: its yearning, incomprehensible vastness and the inevitable darkness and fleeting fragility. For the trio, love is the emotion that propels all of us whether we acknowledge it or not, and its expression can be realized in many forms.

Everything comes into sharp focus on the album's lengthy central piece 'The Stranger', that brings in additional instrumentation from harpist Ayha Simone and percussionist Mathieu Edward. The three friends saw this particular composition as a journey within itself, charting the anxiety, harmony and uncertainty of love. Shifting from gooey freeform jazz into gurgling noise and bleak ambient drone, it connects the dots between Dorothy Ashby, Arve Henriksen, Jon Hassell and Hildur Guðnadóttir while voyaging into parts unknown. It's a finale of sorts that wrestles with the complexity of the album's themes, returning to earlier refrains and prolonging their tension.

Mixed by Daniel Pineda
Mastered by Sam John at Precise Mastering
Artwork by Tosh Basco

Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve - The Stranger (PAN 134S)

Meeting as solo artists billed for the same show (Brookyn 2021), Will August Park and J were compelled to get in the studio together. The unification of Will’s impressionistic solo piano compositions and J. Alberts blunted electronic music style lent itself to a holistic workflow, and in this flow they discovered their commonality in taste and musical expression. The two musicians, versatile in both acoustic instruments and electronics, bring together their distinct styles on "Flat Earth". The composition process involved free improvisation, crafting layers of lush resonance and paired back beats. The 5 track EP sometimes dances across the mind with ease of groove, while also hyper-focussing on the bold personality of instruments to create textural symphonies.

J. Albert Meets Will August Park - Uncanny Otion

A Thread, Silvered and Trembling

A Dream of a Cartographic Membrane Dissolves

Whatever the Weather II

9°C

Stochastic Drift

Positive Disintegration

4k Murmurs (feat. J)

Reversology (Andrew Pekler "Mysteryology" Remix)

from the album ~~~
https://anaroxanne.bandcamp.com/album/-

Ana Roxanne is an intersex Southeast Asian musician based in Los Angeles. Born & raised in the Bay Area to immigrant parents, Ana's love for music and singing began through her mother's cd collection of 80's/90's R&B divas. Raised in the catholic church, she became a devout choir nerd and found any opportunity to sing, whether for religious mass, the jazz ensemble of her catholic high school, or karaoke at family gatherings. Her commitment to singing led her to a brief stint at a vocational jazz program in the cornfields of the midwest; in a remote town of 7,000 people, she began a formal study of jazz and classical music. During these years she would tour with her jazz and chamber ensembles to beautiful old cathedrals in nearby cities and became enamored with the sacredness of choral music, as well as the enveloping sound of harmony. 

A near death experience, too, served as a connection between music and spirituality, and music as a healing art after facing tragedy. 

In 2013, Ana was also fortunate enough to spend a few months in Uttarkhand, India where she met an incredible voice teacher who introduced her to classical Hindustani singing. Living and studying with this teacher deeply impacted her outlook on the voice as art. It was there that she began to see the singer - the Diva - as a symbol of divinity; that the unique power of one's voice comes from the vulnerability of using the body as an instrument. Be it romance, love, or worship of a deity - in order to access such depths of emotional expression, one must be willing to be intensely vulnerable, lay one's heart in the open air, expose what is kept hidden. This brief study was the catalyst that led her to finish her music study at the experimental Mills College in Oakland, CA, where she began to combine all of these influences into her current self-titled project. This album ~~~ was created during her last years residing in the Bay Area, a tribute to the great musicians who inspired her and the landscape where she spent her formative years. 

In addition to the worship of R&B and pop divas, Ana's current practice explores themes of gender & identity. In October of 2018, she decided to come out publicly as intersex, and is dedicated to being a voice for her community and speaking out about social justice for intersex youth.

Reversology (Andrew Pekler "Mysteryology" Remix)

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