Get Closer - Nov 22

That time again to look back at some of the tunes we were spinning non-stop last month. Enjoy our November selection.

Twistedsoul Stereo: November

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El suïcidi i el cant

El suïcidi i el cant

Tuqoos, Julmuds debut album release is a 15 track project rooted in heavy beats that bend space and time to subvert forms of enclosure. The sounds have an almost granular detailed texture while maintaining a gripping rhythmic flow via dense bass lines and a bitter sweetness in the melodies, blurring the lines between hanging on a street corner, at a protest or in a club. Produced in Ramallah - Palestine, Tuqoos pushes up against otherwise inaccessible space, resisting the conditions of a body in capture through sounds that morph, slip through and create breaks in times and spaces that remain occupied.


All tracks produced and recorded by Julmud
Artwork by Ruanne Abou-Rahme & Basel Abbas
Typography + CGI by @moonistudio
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert (Almachrome)
Bilna’es, 2022

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Buy limited edition vinyl + digital on bilnaes.bandcamp.com

Taghyeer Thabet تغير ثابت

Purchase: bit.ly/3QrFcz1
Catalog #: GN69
August 19, 2022
CASS+DIGI

Born in Baghdad, raised in Tasmania, and now based in Barcelona, Dania Shihab moves between cultures and continents with an amorphous creative vision directly tied to her transient existence. As founder of experimental outpost Paralaxe Editions, Dania divides her time between Spain and the remote corners of Australia, where she works as an emergency doctor. Now, Dania presents her solo debut 'Voz,' which finds her rediscovering her voice as a primary instrument. 

The title “Voz”—Spanish for “voice” and signaling to her transnational experiences between Spain and Australia for the last decade—is especially fitting, as Dania grew up in a household where singing was culturally frowned upon. “I used to record myself privately by dubbing my vocals onto tapes in my bedroom and lied about joining the school choir. A lot of what I did musically was done in secret. For that, I have a difficult relationship with my voice,” Dania explains. And although not all the songs have vocals, the tracks here show Dania’s voice in an undeniably self-reflective, introspective, and cathartic light.

Created using a smattering of looped-and-layered vocals, instrumental samples, modular synthesis, cassette tapes, and piano, 'Voz' is an entrapped exploration of harmonics and tonality, weaving together manipulated vocal fragments, processed field recordings, and meditative atmospheres.
 
Dania sets the scene with the melancholic majesty of “I Lied,” a solitary chorus of lifted and lilted vocals and peripheral drones wafting through the air. “Aleph” floats in an ascending, slow-motion sprawl of synth tones, distant pianos, and kaleidoscopic lyrical abstractions. The low-fi churn of “Fire Dash” offers a vibrant milieu of witching hour merriment; a sinister snapshot that searches in the shadows to find even odder beauty. 
 
“Whale Song” departs the well-trodden path and ventures into a thick brush of humid ambiance like a sweltering aural travelog of some uncharted place. The backward drift of “An Individual” levitates in a bubbly fog of heavenly harmonics, while “The Other Thing Is” awakens in a calm, piano-drenched state of hustle and bustle. “Anomaly” closes 'Voz' in a grandiose din of ethereal melody and glorious devastation.

Dania - "Anomaly"

Mariage

Mariage Forcé

Paste

Foot Wrong

Meeting with a Judas Tree

Plunge

Features the sound of a silver birch tree’s bark, recorded in London
Additional guitar by Kiran Kai, London 2019

Mutate

Orange

Mandarin

1471

Today we've got the premiere of the enthralling and gorgeous new Christina Galisatus track 'I Want to Know Her'. 

Read more: https://twistedsoulmusic.org/2022/11/15/christina-galisatus-i-want-to-know-her-ts-premiere

Without Night

Christina Galisatus - I Want to Know Her (TS Premiere)

Awash with @arnheim's trademark palette of late-night deep house vibes on his latest 'Let Be What Is' EP, he gets some help from a mystery vocalist, who features on 'Things Can Change', our favourite cut on the project.

Read more: https://twistedsoulmusic.org/2022/11/23/arnheim-things-can-change-ts-premiere

Arnheim - Things Can Change (TS Premiere)

ssabæ – tous les murs sont des portes

'Capsule', taken from the upcoming debut album by Hanz. 
Out on Tri Angle soon. 

Hanz - Capsule

India

Volta

Dust Under Brightness

Dance Binaire

READ > http://inverted-audio.com/premiere-violent-quand-on-aime-of-course-im-a-liar

When one of today's most intriguing and consistent labels meets one of the most promising artistic crews out there, it gives something like @violentquandonaime's self-titled debut LP on @knekelhuis. Lifted from this compelling spiral of freaky grooves, cheap keyboard melodies and broken rhythms, our premiere 'Of Course I'm A Liar' is a perfect incarnation of VQOA's fresh and vibrant take on industrial and synth pop.

Foot Wrong

Moin