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

~ LAAPS 038 ~ [SEQ.05 - LP38]

artist : Build Buildings
album : Ecotone
duration : 43 mn
date : September 09th, 2024

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / red LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Ben Tweel: guitar, lap harp, ukulele, mbira, piano, sampler
Mia Tweel: clarinet on "Scattering Shreds of Wickerwork"
Louis Tweel: lap harp on "Picking Mortar from the Bricks"

Recorded at home in Brooklyn, New York

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Matthias Heiderich
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Ecotone

Build Buildings - Knoll

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 Moon in Gemini
Available September 6, 2024
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Moon in Gemini

Most Beautiful Imaginary Dialogues

Do Make Say Think • "End Of Music"

the sweetest dream

Beneath a motionless horizon, each shadow leaves its silent mark in the air. Silent forms float between faint pulses of light, bending to the gravity of forgotten tides. Here, stillness carries the weight of a soundless language, and time only moves when you close your eyes.

Thovrae

Download: https://redders1.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-lounge

The Vanguard *Cosmic Lounge LP*

snf04 : giuseppe ielasi "even when they speak of space" out dec.15th 2017.

music for whistling, microphone and digital degradation. 
recorded in november 2016 and august 2017. 
to be played at low volume.

www.senufoeditions.com

snf04 : giuseppe ielasi "even when they speak of space" part 1

Taken from 'V/A - Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997' (MFM050)
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Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997

Isolation (Part Two)

A2. Pulusha - Isolation (Part Two) (8:28)

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ASCETIC HOUSE
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