This weeks episode of earworm is brought to you by the inimitable @kavarimusic

KAVARI is an artist, music producer, and DJ based in Glasgow, Scotland. Fashioning a sonic landscape of corroding textures that interlace with fragile ambiance, KAVARI lures souls to dance together in purgatory.

She has been making waves across the scene as of late with her inimitable and hauntingly beautiful style that has a perfect marriage of visual aesthetic and sonics. With an array of self-releases being pumped out at a steady rate including an amazing sample pack, you can be sure the art is far from over.

The mix she has gifted us is a perfect showcase of her unique style mixing intensity with melancholy and harrowing seduction, we are super happy to have her on for the series!

Socials:
https://kavarimusic.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/kavari_____/

earworm014 ~ KAVARI

Life Is Perfect Trance mixLIVE2

Taken from SBKT055: TRANCE BAND - Entrancing
Release date: 3rd March 2023

In a global landscape that increasingly prioritizes individuality over collaborative expression, TRANCE is a distinctive project. Initiated by Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen, best known for his work with Asian Dope Boys, TRANCE is as artistically amorphous as its constantly evolving line-up, that fluctuates as it shimmers across borders and time-zones. In 2019, the project was demoed in Beijing as part of a solo exhibition from Chen, a 12-hour durational performance that examined the altered states of living and dying and pondered the sounds, sensations, bodies and spaces that notion might suggest. On hold for three years due to COVID-19 restrictions, TRANCE was eventually premiered in Hamburg at the Kampnagel Theatre last year where it was presented as a surreal three-day ceremony. This time around the Trance Band was made up of Berlin-based noisemaker and vocalist Dis Fig, Indonesia's Gabber Modus Operandi, musician and MC KIM KHAN, guitarist and engineer Felix-Florian Tödtloff, and Vancouver-based percussionist and producer CITY. Chen directed the show, channeling each artist's unique energy into an alliance that highlighted their independent skills while pushing towards ideas that simply couldn't have been realized discretely.

"Entrancing" is a live documentation of that incendiary Hamburg session, powered by the performative fireworks that came from having the project halted for two years before it was allowed to burst into life once more. Just as with previous iterations of TRANCE, the space was terraformed into an alien landscape that allowed the collective to enact a carnivalesque display that was tightly controlled but creatively boundless. Musical u-turns were accompanied by monumental stage overhauls that reshaped a muddy, fog-filled outdoor riverscape into an arena, or a sweaty nightclub. This theatrical impact can't be visualized as clearly on the record, but musical cues do just enough heavy lifting to provide a tantalizing contour. When the alluring electro-acoustic plucks and resonant sustained string tones of 'There's a Ghost in the Lantern' cascade into cinematic drone metal on 'Ylva's Theme', it's impossible not to be drawn into the TRANCE narrative. Sonic stage lights flicker with uncommon intensity as the nebulous group rewrite their collective personal stories into stirring, synergistic poetry.

"Something changes!" KIM KHAN calls out on 'Soft and Black', cutting through warbling synths and itchy beatbox percussion. The track builds quickly, reaching a sizzling crescendo of buzzsaw noise and acidic electronics. It's a stylistic sea change that channels the group's kinetic energy into a rock show, and CITY picks up the message on 'Trance Genesis', adding rapid-fire drums to a barrage of guitar skronk. 'Shaolin Affliction' glues Trance Band's jagged artistic edges to a vintage metal template, gradually dissolving into throaty post-hardcore, while 'My Fortress' brings the show to a powerful conclusion with Dis Fig assuming the role of grunge balladeer, bellowing into the void over cacophonous live instrumentation. Unbound by musical and artistic conventions, TRANCE peers out from the basement, the gallery and the playhouse to forge an expression that's all of this and something new entirely. It's refreshing, witty, exhilarating and most of all, completely unpredictable.

Entrancing

v1984 & City - Parallel Phrases [digital only]

Camilo Desorden ( https://soundcloud.com/oxemtaicuatro) es productora, cantante y performer de 23 años en la escena queer y nocturna de Buenos Aires. Su búsqueda sonora abarca desde influencias en la música popular latinoamericana hasta el hyperpop o el latin club, con el uso de la voz y el diseño sonoro como principales investigaciones. También es integrante de -La Chismoteka-, girlband de neoperreo argentina. 

'Pirueta' es el sueño de una máquina, un cuento de amor distópico. Con melodías fucsias que bajan por un tobogán y dan una vuelta carnero, y samples que son de goma pero pinchan y no dejan de rebotar.

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Camilo Desorden ( https://soundcloud.com/oxemtaicuatro ) is a 23 year old producer, singer and performer from the queer and nightlife scene of Buenos Aires. Her sound search for ella ranges from influences in Latin American popular music to hyperpop or Latin club, with the use of voice and sound design as her main investigations of ella. She is also a member of -La Chismoteka-, an Argentine neoperreo girlband.

'Pirueta' is a machine's dream, a dystopian love story. With fuchsia melodies that goes down a slid and takes a wild turn, and samples that are rubber but prick and never stop bouncing.

Camilo Desorden * Pirueta

Listen to "Choral Chaos Re-Drum" by RougeHotel taken from "Yedora's Music Catalog" out on 31st May via Transatlantic

Pre-order: https://rougehotel.bandcamp.com/album/yedoras-music-catalog-2

On ‘Yedora’s Music Catalog’, RougeHotel renders a world of uncanny beauty, where crackles of the divine commune with earthly grit. A world within, where blown out melodies echo through foggy moors and pads n synths are redlined to reveal the harshness at the core of the crystalline prettiness.

This album extends an antennae to the noise, with opener ‘Gruulsignet’ chasing signals in the roil and capturing divine voices in the static. The caustic swirl of ‘Yedora’ and ‘Foil’ are disrupted by glimmering, otherworldly transmissions, heartstopping melodic bursts breaking through like beams of concentrated light through a dark, gnarled wilderness. But it’s on ‘Rhystic Study’ and ‘Choral Chaos Re-Drum’ where the light is forged into form — d&b-inflected slappers that go off like they’re transcribed from ancient druidic runes. The road is long and perilous, so consider this album an amulet, a protective charm, a talisman. This is pathfinder music.

Links:
RougeHotel
https://soundcloud.com/rougeh0tel
https://rougehotel.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/rougeh0tel
Transatlantic
https://soundcloud.com/transatlanticrecords
https://transatlanticrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/transatlantic.earth

Yedora's Music Catalog

pre-order / bandcamp

[Premiere] RougeHotel - Choral Chaos Re-Drum (Transatlantic)

"I whisper past every creature I encounter: survive and prosper, for us both"

All proceeds will be donated to Anima, Vegan Farm & Dog's Voice in order to facilitate their efforts in rescuing, nursing and rehabilitating animals that were affected by the recent fires in Athens, Greece.

www.wild-anima.gr/en/profile/
www.dogsvoice.gr
www.instagram.com/veganfarm.gr/

Mastered by Oliver Torr
Cover & Affirmation by Female Pentimento

8 - Aprokalypta

Neir - Eye For An Eye (Hexxedscars Remix)

the boys WAY and SSETH from TAIWAN take over the first hour, then MATT TECSON on for the last hour

ONE WINGED ANGEL ft WAY, SSETH, MATT TECSON

Tracks: NISSAN ALTIMA - Taiki Nulight Remix (Dirty)
Tokio Drift x Hollaback Girl (Macon 148bpm RMX)

ONE WINGED ANGEL ft WAY, SSETH, MATT TECSON

𝕸𝕬𝕿𝕿 𝕿𝕰𝕮𝕾𝕺𝕹