Natural Energie 16 (13/10/23)

estaria re pillo :)

01 - Piensa en mí

"No hay perdón," Mau Bigliante's collection of works, is framed by the artist as a visual and sound poetry full of self-exposed emotions, imaginary post-life worlds, and soundscapes naively composed as an attempt to expand the space and time of some recurring questions and unsolicited feelings.

° ° ° Do you think it's nice to live inside your feelings for so long? 
Did they stay with you?

° ° ° It's hard to say,

Preguntar, preguntar, y nunca responder.

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No Hay Perdón was written, illustrated & composed between 2019 - 2022 in Sauce (UY) and Berlin (GER).

Written, Composed and Mixed by Mau Bigliante
Art cover by Mau Bigliante
Master by: Eduardo Friedlaender 
Special thanks to: Gary Pimiento, Sascha, Teui & Sociedad Gánica

Published in 2024 in collaboration with Sociedad Gánica.

Rodolfo

La entrega número 21 esta a cargo de Katanita.

Katanita es el aka de Sofía Vidal. DJ, productora y cofundadora del sello y colectivo interdisciplinario DISTURBIO, el cual tiene base en Montevideo, Uruguay.

https://soundcloud.com/disturbiodst
https://soundcloud.com/katanit

#D21 - Katanita

Pollution Opera - s/t
Cat. Nr: DN027
Format: DL / LP
Release Date: April 24, 2024
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/PollutionOpera

Elvin Brandhi and Nadah El Shazly refuse to turn away from the horror. The intercontinental duo’s Pollution Opera album is an uncompromising futurist depiction of our disfigured, dystopian, and dying reality. Facing hell in full defiance, the experimental noise album catapults itself through a volatile compound of breathless shouts, screams, and screeches, in collision with vocal samples, environmental recordings, and acousmatic sounds. Ten tracks cover the spectrum of electroacoustic fragments and vocalizations, treacherously suspended between the roar of engines and synth distortion, of evocative intonations or guttural retching.

First conceived in 2020, Pollution Opera bubbled up organically from a first tandem motorbike ride through El Shazly’s hometown of Cairo. Singing and screaming through the second-loudest city in the world, Brandhi and Shazly found the extreme noise pollution served as catharsis from the suffocating smog that surrounded them. They then took these sonic specimens into studios across years and countries—from the initial recording and sessions in Egypt to Uganda, where their so-called “cacophony carbon orchestra” would carry into simultaneous but separate residencies at Nyege Nyege in Kampala. There, Brandhi and Shazly reprised the role of the motorbike as their “stage,” in a city where motorbikes are the main mode of public transport. They then developed a live A/V performance from video material captured by Arno Mery, collected from their travels, and reworked by Egyptian artist Omar El Sadek during Banlieues Bleues Festival 2023 in France.

The result is what the artists themselves describe as “an uncompromising world-spew, a shameless alloy of love and hate.” Haptic knocking, barking dogs, and human growls trample El Shazly’s famously evocative Egyptian singing style on “CRÎi Me A River.” Breathless vocal cut-ups and samples are bulldozed by arrhythmic acoustic percussion on “Danse Le Flou.” There are moments of respite within all the chaos, however, whether in the heavily pitched, Auto-Tuned opening of “Pollute Bold” or the wonderfully melodic closer of “Crisp Heart”—its derelict rhythmic thrust giving a listener something to dance about.

Both artists lend their unique positioning and idiosyncrasies to Pollution Opera, whether it’s in artist, vocalist, and musician Brandhi’s avant-garde noise music pedigree as both a solo artist and member of father-daughter duo Yeah You, or
singer, composer, and producer El Shazly’s hybrid catalogue combining electronic music with contemporary classical. Together, in asking the question of what a postmodern opera might sound like, the duo offer their existential answer in the true spirit of the often playful and ironic philosophical position by offering no answer at all.

Voice & electronics: Elvin Brandhi & Nadah El Shazly
Violin on ‘Crisp Heart’: Ocen James
Soprano on ‘Attention’: Marie Requa Gailey

Artwork by Omar El Sadek & Niels Wehrspann
Mastering by Rashad Becker

Pollution Opera

Pollution Opera - Danse Le Flou

Polish untergrund lurking through the hole. World domination musique from friends and idols.


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Lime Lodge w/ Angelo Harmsworth (01/11/24)

Collector John Gómez brightens up Mondays with some music from different times and different places.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez/episodes/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez-4th-november-2024

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Azyr - Kappa Futur Festival 2025 (Solar Stage Closing)

RELIVE THE MADNESS...

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/azyr_music/
https://ra.co/dj/azyr
https://soundcloud.com/azy_r
https://azyr.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Ujj9Jh1Z4tDJ4j6qGRml8

Rodolfo

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