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Vinyl: https://numagama.bandcamp.com/album/a-spectral-turn
Stream: https://tr.ee/zrjAhww_9e
Catalog no: BI32

In an unusual collaboration between a Brazilian artist and a Chinese label, Numa Gama returns with a left-field take on her music-making, A Spectral Turn. Inspired by Derrida’s Hauntology, and the post-capitalist instigations of Anna Tsing, she weaves an eerie and cold subtropical soundscape that explores themes of freedom and imagination amidst the ghosts that inhabit today’s world.

Each track here unfolds like a vignette, as translucent synth lines float independently, accompanied by abstract sounds and glitches. This amalgamation creates a rational yet cozy stream of consciousness, guiding the listener through the haunted corridors of the memories of the past, ideas of the present, and miscarriages of the future. To summon these ideas, Numa Gama draws a parallel between negotiating political change and making kin with her own creative desires.

Rather than providing nostalgic sensations or futuristic insights, A Spectral Turn acknowledges that history ends at every moment, and gives way to new beginnings, swarming with ghosts.
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released January 31, 2024

All tracks were composed, produced, and mixed by [numa] Gama and mastered by Brandenburg Mastering

C (Live) (Snippet)

A5 Balloons (Logic) (Snippet)

O Que É Doce No Fim (Snippet)

2k&Plateau (Intro) (Snippet)

Featuring another guest slot from Lee Bright of Tangential Music a boutique music label out of the UK. In keeping with our loose Shizzle tradition Lee has kindly selected cuts from his label plus favourites and tracks on his radar to share with us tonight

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Tracklisting - Shizzle
Winter McQuinn - I Will Be The Same	
Multani - Cycle	
The Amorphous Androgynous - Go Tell It To The Trees Egghead 
Gil Scott Heron - Where Did The Night Go 
(A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven)	
Nomade Orquestra - Casa Da Arvore (Vinyl Cut)

Tracklisting - Lee Bright 
Franck Biyong - Nights in Zeralda	
A Hundred Birds feat TEN - Batonga (110 Ambient Vox)	
The Sunshine Company - I Need You	
Tara Lily - 6 Feet Down feat. Theo Croker	
Stacey Cohen - War on Love	
Holysseus Fly - Under Your Sun	
Arthur Russell - This Is How We Walk on the Moon	
Bryan Ferry - Windswept	
Drama On The Corner - The Light ft Swala Emati	
The Thief Of Time - Pavement Soul feat. NIIX (Radio edit)	
Ghostchant - Reasons (Steve Cobby Remix)	
Joanna Law - Little Jewel	
Freekind - It`s a beginning	
Mr Bird - I Wanna See You	
Scrimshire - Unity Gain	
Joseph Malik - Be A Lion ft. Kameelah Waheed	
Galathea - Sacred Love	
Tomasz Guiddo & Jimi Tenor - Where The Wild Roam (Radio Edit)	
Eric Hilton - Poppy Fields	
Jordan Rakei - Freedom	
Ned Doheny - Postcards From Hollywood	
Soul Sugar - Just A Little Talk (Dub)

Tracklisting - Shizzle
Subset - Dub Spectrometry (Nightjah Mix)	
Eric Hilton - Poppy Fields	
Lucky Sun feat. Jaidene Veda - Falling Fool 
(Joe Morris Sunset Dub)

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The Shizzle : 7 February 2024  : Lee Bright Selections

Dave Bessell Chromatic Lightning Cage DiN84

Release date 15th March 2024
Limited to 250 copies Digipak CD

This new release from synthesist Dave Bessell sees him completing a quartet of albums loosely based on the Greek philosophy of the Four Elements, namely Fire, Water, Earth and Air. There’s certainly no doubting that “Chromatic Lightning Cage” with its vivid cover is referencing Fire but this personal odyssey started with the concept of Water on his inaugural solo album, “Analogue” released in 2010. This was followed by “Black Horses Of The Sun” (DiN47) - Air, and “Reality Engine” (DiN62) - Earth.

Bessell has also released three collaborations with Parallel Worlds on the DiN imprint as well as being part of the synth supergroup Node. It is interesting that whilst the Berlin School inspired sequencer riffs of the latter dominate the soundstage Bessell largely eschews this approach on his own albums. Rather on this and his other DiN solo releases he explores interesting harmonic progressions with a series of interlocking delicate arpeggios. This is most evident on the opening track “After Hours” as well as the beautiful closing piece “Elegy”. Elsewhere Bessell blurs the line between guitar and synth using his stringed instruments as controllers for his modular systems. His music has always had an element of the soundtrack to it and this is certainly highlighted in the track “Ariel” which has a mystical, unearthly quality to its soundscapes. Bessell has noted that the ghosts of Amon Tobin and Nils Frahm wander through this album at times which is certainly an intriguing thought.

Always one to push the boundaries Bessell has included a QR code in the Bandcamp download version of the album that opens up an augmented reality vista from the cover image. Lovers of Electronica, Downtempo, Ambient and Soundtracks will find much to admire in “Chromatic Lightning Cage” and this new album once again showcases the unique talent of this highly individual musician.

 
 01 After Hours   05:43
02 Forest Under The Sea   03:41
03 Darkening Air   07:17
04 Dream Of The Red Chamber   07:10
05 Ariel   05:01
06 Unheimlich   08:36
07 Nightshade   08:55
08 Moths   09:34
09 Elegy   06:31

Total Time :  62:46

Chromatic Lightning Cage

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