In 2024, Japanese vocalist @ultrama00 recorded an album together with producers duo @ifs_raps . “REIFSMA” was a meshing of MA's spontaneity with IFS' production machinery. Extended vocal techniques, multi-layered narratives and original expression gave IFS's tracks a disturbed and hypnotic feel. After the critically and audience acclaimed “REIFSMA ”, MA returns to the Guides label with the solo album “VWV”.

“VWV” is MA's second solo album, the first, “AMA,” was released on Morphine Records. The two albums are closely related, complementing each other. “VWV” is a reverse transcription of the word “AMA,” which means, in turn, heaven or universe. But visual and semantic connections are not the only thing at stake. “VWV” and “AMA” both focus on the elemental, unpredictable, risky and sometimes wild. The narrative in the works is not chronological, concentrating rather on what is simplest in language, expression and the body. MA lets his thoughts flow without assigning them to anything or giving them any specific direction. His verbal and vocal practices are close to stream-of-consciousness, MA often refers to word games.

On the musical level, we get extremely spare material, in which the voice dominates. However, MA does not shy away from the sonic layer either, enriching the tracks with rough, dirty, industrial sounds. The nature of these recordings evokes associations with the plunderphonic tradition and the “borrowing” of new contexts. “I used recordings of vocals and sound ideas that came to me, which I'd recorded as rough drafts, and edited them.” - MA naturally expands the semantic field of plunderphonics, treating his ideas as something potentially strange, not-yet-mine, which is instinctively processed when he gives it a voice. In his practice, MA is careful to note the nature of the spontaneous self-alienation and what comes in its place. He is like a sound poet who responds with his voice to every slightest impulse of narrative and potential atoms of meaning ready to be externalized.

“VWV” resembles the universe after the Big Bang - it is spreading radially in all directions, trying to encompass and express “everything” at every moment, simultaneously.

MA - VWV

SIDE A
A1-MA
A2-TAMAMONO
A3-IKU
A4-HUQSEN
A5-FULUELL
A6-HILAC
A7-XJOVYA
A8-WARABE
A9-NCEPHZB
A10-IZRE
A11-SUGATA

MA - VWV Side A (preview)

SIDE B
B1-JA
B2-SHILL
B3-REI
B4-OHW
B5-RERU
B6-SOLEKARA
B7-ENE

MA - VWV Side B (preview)

complex structures | rhythmic grooves | minimalism
label owner @paide

MA - VWV

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