xquisite releases is proud to present ‘Summer in Sexilia’ the new album by Cecilia @babiaudi

On the winding roads of escape, running away from the burning city's suffocation, in search of air, Cecilia drowns in the thick, elemental romance of Sexilia island.

The landscape oozes and recalls the radical desire of adolescent souls, a chaste and mystical resistance which flutters and strolls above through ditches, railroad edges, highway exits, stinking alleys owned by starving cats.

Sparse and sculptural breaths, the songs are drunk with melancholic infatuation.

“Summer in Sexilia” is a sensory encounter with the great despair in which the lover's courage takes shape once again, sublime, hanging on the memory of the shining stars.

In the hallucinated Summer of Sexilia, the ground trembles, the hands get dirty and the world craves for real tenderness and silent ecstasy.

video for 'grave': www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2-rRJmZg6M
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released August 6, 2021

all music by Cecilia, with thanks to Isabella Lovestory, Bashar Suleiman, Yalei Shen for vocal features

cover artwork by Justine Neuberger

graphic design by Aleski Tammi

mastered by Oscar Khan
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Cecilia - agile Feat.Bashar Suleiman

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Written And Preformed: Lil Asaf 
Prod: Bashar Suleiman 
Mix: Bashar Suleiman & Amir Shoat 
Master: Amir Shoat

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Estanna

Microstone is a concept about the drive we have within coming to life. As we grow older we discover more about our passions. In times we fight for it against the world. The more we communicate our passions with our surrounding we  discover one’s self.

"Microstone" is a musical piece about growth, struggle, and relief, composed over a year while Jana and collaborator/film director @Paulasaba witnessed each other's life experiences, turbulence, and moments of peace. The project was developed online, fostering a deep friendship. The music was inspired and developed alongside the film "Microstone" by Paula Saba. 

03 Talata (For Hussein) - feat. Pau

I'm scared
So afraid to show I care
Will he think me weak
If I tremble when I speak?

So Afraid to Show I Care sees Theo Alexander & Qow assume the role of gleaners and foragers, collecting fragments from over a year of collaboration to produce a palimpsest of sonic layers. Their 30-minute micro-epic is built on an ethic of bricolage, covering tape-recorded ambience, voice note instrumentals, warped acapellas and growling double basses, all of which play out in an uninterrupted narrative.

As unabashedly experimental as it is emotional, the album’s diverse landscape features Egyptian spoken word artist otteswed (formerly known as Aly Talibab) and improvising contrabassist Klára Pudláková. On the leading single, Addictive, Pudláková’s double bass, enters into a melodic dialogue with yearning vocal samples. Towards the end of the album, otteswed delivers an existential soliloquy above waves of organ chords performed by Theo Alexander who sampled church organs from Prague, London and Orford. This album brings together material from a string of high-profile premieres across Europe and the UK featuring a rotating cast of collaborators.

Along with the digital release of the album, comes a limited-edition double cassette tape that includes both the album and selected Live performances from CTM festival ‘25, and PAF festival ‘24 featuring George Cremaschi on Contrabass.

Theo Alexander (London, UK) and Qow (Cairo, Egypt) began working together in 2023, and have respectively been featured in NPR, The Quietus, The Wire, and supported by Shape+, Britten-Pears Arts, and others. 
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Music written and composed by Theo Alexander & Omar El Sadek
Double bass on Tracks 3, 5, and 9 by Klára Pudláková
Double bass on Live Recording tape by George Cremaschi
Vocals on Track 7 by otteswed
Mixed & Mastered by Oliver Torr
Live recording mixed by George Cremaschi
Artwork by Omar El Sadek, design by Niels Wehrspann

Theo Alexander & Qow - دنيا تجيبك تحت ft. otteswed

داود المنطقي × كريم الغازولي-كارّو

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LSD MUSIC prod. giveblood

Egyptian artist ZULI is releasing his debut album ‘Terminal’ via Lee Gamble’s UIQ imprint this November. 

The forthcoming LP has been described as a “localised and personal” project which reflects on life in ZULI’s Cairo hometown. Merging techno-inflections, grime, daunting bass-laden sounds and periods of soothing ambience, the 14-tracker is a formidable, cohesive release from a truly innovative artist.

Ahead of the project’s release, we’re delighted to be premiering cut ‘Akhbutboot’ featuring stellar Egyptian rapper Abyusif. 

‘Terminal’ lands November 2 via UIQ. Pre-order below.

https://boomkat.com/products/terminal-b7268299-2ff6-4404-b23c-6883ae746689

Premiere: ZULI 'Akhtuboot' (ft. Abyusif)

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