Written and produced by @holy-strays and @ehuamusic
Mixed and mastered by Sébastien Forrester
Photography by Sébastien Forrester
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“Paris-based Franco-British percussionist and sound artist Sébastien Forrester returns with his first solo release in almost two years for French powerhouse Promesses: a 5-track EP called ‘Turmoil’ that, more than ever in his career, brings to life the crossroads of experimental club mutations, leftfield drumming and ritual music, with a huge emphasis on trance-inducing rhythmic structures.

‘Turmoil’ is eminently stormy and insurgent, saturated by wild emotions, deeply rooted in a period of mistrust, anxiety and relentless hunt for hope. It also embodies a more collective and playful approach to composing with the club in mind, as collaborating with friends (Ehua, Citizen Boy and 3Phaz here) had somehow become a way of keeping up with the dancefloor throughout the successive lockdowns: Forrester’s approach to rhythm and sound design then meets Ehua’s wide oceans of bass and eerie textures, Citizen Boy’s fiery original gqom sound and 3Phaz’s hybrid post-Chaabi hard drum variations.

Rudely tumultuous pipes, both organic and artificially recreated using FM synthesis, span across the whole EP - most of them draw from the cabrette, a 19th century type of bagpipe originating from Auvergne. As Sébastien Forrester recently found out, the bagpipe somehow embodies a bridge between his French Occitan roots and the British side of his family: it has since then been a fascinating object of research. Most percussion elements were first recorded using a singular drum kit made of bells, custom cymbals, prepared bongos and tambours, created by his friend Léo Liégeois, then digitally processed through various digital patches. The raw, live feel of some of the drums, very present throughout the record, is a nod at Forrester’s background as a jazz drummer.

Formerly known as Holy Strays (acclaimed by the likes of Pitchfork, the Fader, Fact Magazine, Dazed, etc), Sébastien Forrester has always had a recurring obsession for sacred music and idiosyncratic sounds - his very first encounter with music and percussion as a kid was the Bwiti ritual drums, while he was living in Gabon and central Africa with his family in the late 1990s. The drummer and producer started releasing music early on, at the age of 19, and has put out records on international labels such as Not Not Fun and Hands in the Dark. Over the last years, he has also remixed Rejjie Snow, SUUNS and Forest Swords, and shared stages with acts as diverse as SBTRKT, The Soft Moon and Zola Jesus, all across Europe. His latest pieces of work explore his relationship to trance, pipes and percussive instruments. Recent collaborations include Brodinski, Lafawndah, Slikback, Coby Sey, as well as Toulouse-based experimental dancer and choreographer Pierre Rigal.”

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Sébastien Forrester - Typhoon ft. Ehua

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Long-term serial digger, vendredear seeks genre interstices and any bootleg to shout on. 
Through their studio work at LYL Radio Paris and their artistic work, they question DJ-ing as a way to tell stories and revive memories. 
Their mixes focus on avant-garde and experimental club music but also on forgotten tracks, with a taste for gabber, breaks & hyperpop melodies.

You can find the tracklist on instagram.
Link in bio.

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Miasma Jester is Lizzitsky’s second EP on Gabber Eleganza’s label Never Sleep. Recorded in Uruguay, London and Venezuela using cassette, modular synths, laptop and various acoustic instruments. It takes in elements of power electronics, throwbacks to 90’s harsh noise, ambient improv, hardcore and 00’s London sub bass pressure. Several tracks were recorded in the now abandoned Elephant and Castle shopping complex, a grim goodbye to childhood spots visited with South American family. London based artist Sarah Khan (ICA New Contemporaries), collaborates on Black Phlegm, with her spoken word driving 160bpm bursts of noise, infra-bass and textured cassette melodies. Miasma Jester follows a fragmented trajectory through IDM melodies, broken dancehall, Thunderdome kicks channeled through max/msp glitches - before collapsing in on itself. Danish vocalists MC Pusher and Sgabe deliver cracked and redlined vocals over 165bpm drones and atonal string arrangements on Usenet Suic Pac, with more pensive, ambient moments via You Can’t Say Hello Without Saying Hell’s decayed 8bar grime nods and Carbroke House’s gloomy ambient dirge.

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Lizzitsky - Usenet Suic Pac Ft Mc Pusher & Sgabe

ARCA X FAUSTO MERCIER

#arca #deconstructedclub

Thievery overcop (89 BPM)

Land Entranced

Type Lax (ABADIR Remix)

Alice Anyway - All Good Things

@talitaotovic @faeriesrecords
Eclectic club, post-club and non-club genres and hybrids presented by FÆRIES, platform and record label pushing boundaries of electronic sounds.

FÆRIES RECORDS invite Talita Otović ⏤ Highway Megamix

BETWEEN SEWAGE & SEGWAY is a bimonthly show curated by Maoupa Mazzocchetti. Created to turn away from conservatism and getting towards a past-embracing but always forward-looking music. Elastic music for elastic ears from Sewage to Segway.

1h live mix recording at The Word Radio, Brussels.
December 21st 2018
1st : Maoupa Mazzocchetti
2nd : Low Jack
Photo: The Word
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Maoupa Mazzocchetti & Low Jack - BETWEEN SEWAGE & SEGWAY (21.12.18)

Track by : https://soundcloud.com/chorba-chorba

artwork : https://www.instagram.com/gaspard_hers/

Chorba - Stucking

20.04.24 - Marseille - Meta
01.06.24 - Belgrade - TBC
26.07.24 - Dusseldorf - Salon des Amateurs
29.08.24 - Eupen - Meakusma Festival
06.09.24 - Brussels - Botanique
18.09.24 - Liege - TBC
22.11.24 - Taipei - Final

Done
27.03.24 - Paris - Wondrin' Show - Rinse
02.03.24 - Tokyo - Air Building
01.03.24 - Beijing - Zhaodai
25.02.24 - Shanghai - All Club
23.02.24 - Shenzen - Oil Club
01.01.24 - Brussels - Synthygate - Petite Île
24.01.24 - Paris - Wondrin' Show - Rinse
13.01.24 - Paris - La Marbrerie

Booking : 
FR+WW : sidonie@bi-pole.org

Maoupa Mazzocchetti & Low Jack - BETWEEN SEWAGE & SEGWAY (21.12.18)

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