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Ecstatic is thrilled to announce Foreign Body, the latest release from Barcelona-based Dania Shihab, who crafts dreamlike transmissions into the evocative concept of the 'foreign body' in the context of forced migration and cultural loss. 

A tapestry of sounds and emotions, this work is a product of Dania's exploration of her experiences as an Iraqi-born individual who grew up in Tasmania, Australia, an island where her native culture was completely absent. The profound sense of longing for a homeland that has never truly been experienced reverberates throughout, with each track poignantly capturing the complexities of feeling like a stranger in one's own body and society. 

Inspired by her work as an emergency doctor, the artist delves into the idea of removing foreign bodies, and sees forced migrants as 'foreign bodies' within their adopted societies. This release serves as a window into the emotional displacement of forced migrants and the struggle for cultural identity. 

Foreign Body was written and recorded at home in Barcelona, using a 4-track tape recorder, vocal looping techniques, modular synthesis, and collaged samples of Iraqi musicians and poets from the post-Gulf War era into an amorphous cloud of magnetic drones and soft hypnogogic vocal textures to entrance the listener. 

An emotive and evocative release, Foreign Body weaves together sounds and stories to explore a universal human experience. It is a testament to the sublime power of music to communicate emotion.

Dania - Foreign Body

mix (136) by @brocolijoli

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RADWIMPS - Sky Over Tokyo
Gutevolk - Twinkle Star’s Cycling Bolero
E.O.U - Watch星 
Carmen Jaci - Danse lunaire 
Caramelo & DJ Swagger - Elfenblut 
088.waw 
Knurx - Visceral 
Oneohtrix Point Never - Boring Angel 
Portable Rock - Shinju Kaigan
Colin Munroe - Not Love ft. Cassie (Interlude)
Lil Kev - molly 
adorablesteak96 - I wouldn’t recognize you feat. Dj nightWork
kumisolo - La Chanson Du Poisson Rouge 
Coppe’ - Forbidden 
Michiru Oshima, pentagon - Heal 
Hannah Diamond - Make Believe synths
nao - まねごと + uami (demo)
clémence mathieu et gajeb - haricots 
Vilde Tuv - Old Stone 
beloved trinket - dancing in th rain ( hlf style edit )
013.waw 
Townes Van Zandt - I’ll Be Here In The Morning

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(136) Julia Henderson

I was in Birmingham International train station, boiling hot after being used to Glasgow's wet sunless summers. I filled up a waterbottle and the electronic advert next to the dispenser was emitting this electronic drone. The music you hear is taken from that 20 second recording. 

It was a boring, uncanny moment, where I was vacantly processing our worsening climate emergency and how amazing it is that things can just keep going on.  

The title comes from Judge Hehir's sentencing of the Whole Truth Five in July 2024 stating that “whether or not we are facing the end of the world is neither here nor there" and that humanity “coming to a fiery end” is irrelevant". A shocking denial of reality and punitive measure in face of very real global catastrophe. And a deeply resonant instance of society's inability to see what's coming.

'facing the end of the world is neither here nor there'

From The Invisible Road: Original Recordings, 1985–1990
Video compiled by Holden Lay from Mitsuru Hiyashi's 1988 film In Search of Desert Equations and footage from a 1987 performance of Azax Attra 1 and 2 at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club

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Craving Your Embrace

From Moon in Gemini
Available September 6, 2024
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Most Beautiful Imaginary Dialogues

Do Make Say Think • "End Of Music"

Holly Herndon - Home (acappella) djynxx bootleg

promo for the upcoming album “in-between”: An exploration between analogue and digital keyboards, and between measured and open time. Music by Bach, Feldman, Couperin re-composed. 

excerpt 1: music from J.S. Bach's 'Sarabande' from the Partita in E minor BWV830

in-between

DB27

Changes ( instrumental )

Fading lights dissolve into blurred horizons where forgotten notes linger in corridors that still remember. An empty station waits in silence, its echoes carried by the absence of voices, while songs float through empty rooms. Candles burn to ashes, time rusts in silent corners, and gentle collapses mark the weight of the indestructible. Between half-open curtains and nameless skies, a final goodbye is whispered, fragile as breath.

Most Beautiful Imaginary Dialogues

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