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Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve - The Sport of Love 
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 134
Release Date: 26 May 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/TheSportofLove

In the late 18th century, reason and rational thought was idealized and viewed as the most progressive way to comprehend a rapidly industrializing society. The snap reaction was Romanticism, an artistic movement that prioritized emotion, imagination and intuition - things that can't be quantified but have sustained culture for millennia. Now in a digitally accelerated age where our lives are not only measured but distributed in binary, a similarly hot-blooded creative response is long overdue. On The Sport of Love, seasoned collaborators Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga and Tapiwa Svosve consider the language, competition and contradiction of modern romance: its yearning, incomprehensible vastness and the inevitable darkness and fleeting fragility. For the trio, love is the emotion that propels all of us whether we acknowledge it or not, and its expression can be realized in many forms.

“I know my musical collaborators on an arguably more intimate level than many of the friendships that are exclusively born of word-based language,” says Belaga. The cellist and composer has been developing a relationship with Los Angeles-based DJ-producer Maroof (also known as Asmara) and Svosve, a Swiss saxophonist and electro-acoustic musician, for many years; the three are all part of Moved by the Motion, a "roving band" that also includes artist and filmmaker Wu Tsang, performer and dancer Tosh Basco and dancer Josh Johnson. As a three-piece ensemble, their interaction is fluid and physical, and with Svosve and Belaga on sax, flute, piano and cello, Maroof sculpts the sounds into textured, effervescent fantasies. “A lot of the songs were improvised and then I made sense of the madness," she explains.

The music emerged like smoke from the embers of soundtrack work they collaborated on in 2021. After finishing scores for Virgil Abloh's Louis Vuitton A/W 2021 collection film, Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light and Bafic’s documentary short Sub Eleven Seconds, the trio were left with unanswered questions and excess energy. They considered the idea of creating an imaginary score to a romantic movie, using love to dictate its movement and narrative. So opening track 'G Major Kind of Love' is the intoxicating first blush, characterized by a drowned sax solo that sounds like a siren call from beneath the ocean. 'Delicate Distance Between Boulders' is quivering and hesitant, using gentle piano motifs against reverberating flute sounds and subtle, goosebump inducing electronic treatments.

Everything comes into sharp focus on the album's lengthy central piece 'The Stranger', that brings in additional instrumentation from harpist Ayha Simone and percussionist Mathieu Edward. The three friends saw this particular composition as a journey within itself, charting the anxiety, harmony and uncertainty of love. Shifting from gooey freeform jazz into gurgling noise and bleak ambient drone, it connects the dots between Dorothy Ashby, Arve Henriksen, Jon Hassell and Hildur Guðnadóttir while voyaging into parts unknown. It's a finale of sorts that wrestles with the complexity of the album's themes, returning to earlier refrains and prolonging their tension.

Fittingly, the record is tied together by artwork from the trio's friend Tosh Basco, and several tracks have already been used by Wu Tsang in a piece for SFMoMa. The Sport of Love is powered by physical connection in a digital world, and breathes a mysterious allure that's never been more urgent.

The Sport of Love 

Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve - Wicked City (PAN 134)

Alt-pop experimentalist and Croatian Amor collaborator @altoaria pays tribute to lovelorn souls on their @rhz000 return.

Fitting that a release bearing a title referring to an all-consuming state of infatuation would land on Valentines Day. Striking balance between soft and severe, ‘Limerence’ is a lament to unrequited love; a homage to the heart-broken among us.

Tugging hard on the heartstrings, our pick is no less tender for its restraint. String-fuelled, heart-in-mouth melodrama imbued with a sense of yearning. 

'Limerence' is out February 14th on Rhizome.

Pre-order: rhz000.bandcamp.com/album/limerence

Limerence

Premiere: Alto Aria - Where The Heart Is [Rhizome]

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Starfrog (Mosslander Tablet version) [feat. Ben Bondy]

Pour cette émission de rentrée, je propose de prendre le contre-pied de la saison passée, qui s’axait sur les sonorités de la nature. 
Au fil de cette nouvelle saison de « murmurations », l’accent sera mis sur les paysages sonores façonnés par l’humain.
En guise d’introduction, je vais explorer la thématique de la voiture.
La voiture, ou la caisse, la bagnole.
Celle qui nous fait fantasmer, celle où l&amp#39;on allume la radio au gré des routes sinueuses sans savoir ce qu&amp#39;on va trouver au bout des ondes, autant que celle cabossée qui nous transporte sur les autoroutes, 4 voies et autres pistes de rallyes.
J’ai conçu ce set comme un hommage sous forme de collage sonore à mon Kangoo usé, à l&amp#39;autoradio défaillant, mais avec qui j’ai vécu tant d’aventures.
Bonne écoute ! 


Murmurations w/ Dj Sport 2000 (01/11/24)

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Metamorphoses

A3 - Konsistent Feat. MZ -  Держи Мою Руку

Crystalline, expansive and new age in character, Banlieue Records boss Benoit B gets on a beatless tip.

'Notes Of Love' is out soon on Into The Light Records.

Pre-order: bit.ly/35ZWb4Q

@benoitb
@intothelightrecords

Premiere: Benoit B - Polar Nights [Into The Light]

After a stormy year, let us bask your moonlit dreams with synthetic serenades and sweet susurrations, that coax us all into digital lust.

INDEX0X0 is a prescription of sonic pheromones designed to soothe, arouse and awaken all sentient beings. A kiss from the gentlest carbon-composite lips, rewrites our code into a swirling sequence of bliss.

The tracks are available as 'pay as you feel' and we have love inspiring merchandise to accompany the compilation.

Tracks by: @agespowerflip @connaharaway @vasesound @specialguest-dj @cofaxx @l-v-j @amamelia @djfuckoff @ysystem @hystericalloveproject @blacksnakewhip

INDEX0X0

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Ka Baird is a performer, composer and sound designer based in New York City. They are known for their live performances which include extended voice and microphone techniques combined with electronics and psychoacoustic interplay of flutes and other woodwinds. They create a present tense sound with a vigorous, ritualistic delivery that seeks extreme release through physical exertion and psychic extension. They have worked/collaborated with many other musicians, artists, filmmakers and choreographers, both in structured compositions and in their dedicated practice of improvisation and interdisciplinary work.

Metamorphoses

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