In this episode, Matt speaks with folklorist Trevor Blank about digital folklore, including creepypasta, and its role in shaping how creepy subjects are discussed. Matt and Trevor also discuss why folklorists were slow to accept that online folklore is, in fact, folklore. Along the way, there are detours into prison folklore, Slender Man, and Bloody Mary.

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69. Digital Folklore With Trevor Blank

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𝗕𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘂 - 𝔸𝕝𝕝 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝𝕤 𝕎𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝔸𝕥 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕎𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕟'𝕤 𝔸𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕠 𝔸𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 [BSLP008] - OUT DEC. 12
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_______VAI A CASA, SEI UBRIACO!
Bamboo Shows introduces today the first opus of its 'vai a casa, sei ubriaco!' cassette series focusing on sunitty, an Italian reinterpretation of Fourth World Music through the prism of the world wide web.

_______ BABAU - ALL THE GURLS WERE AT THE WOMEN'S ARCHO ASHINTO
“All The Gurls Were At The Women’s Archo Ashinto” is the new work by post-exoticist duo Babau, a project of Matteo Pennesi and Luigi Monteanni, both founders of Artetetra, a label and platform pursuing practice-based sound research on digital folklore and internet world music, which they term Quinto Mondo; a spin on Jon Hassel’s Fourth World. After releasing their own output on labels such as Discrepant, Communion and Artetetra and being selected as SHAPE+ alumni 2022/23, Babau is back on Bamboo Shows with a wild ride into the soundscapes of bootleg sound ethnography and floating world digi-exotica collages.

As part of the “Vai a casa, sei ubriaco!” series, Babau redraws the lines of stoner-impressionism and gonzo traveling through the rework of a radio show they produced for Psychic Radio. Born as a patchwork of imaginative sketches meshing YouTube audio manipulation with Babau’s signature live computer techniques, spirit box-like vocal excerpts and irregularly pulsing beats, “ATGWATWAA” explores the brain fog of transglobal exoticism offering a continuous, fake field recording where organologies and aural timbres conjure a floating world of sound flows and yet-to-come folk genres from yonder. If you’re here for a first-class ticket to mind trickery and surreally tender ‘cinema pour l’oreille’, no one does it better.

In particular, the title of the album comes from a shirt photographed by Babau in the streets which belongs to the phenomenon of SHANZAI clothing. Shanzhai (Chinese: 山寨; pinyin: shānzhài; Cantonese Jyutping: saan zaai) is a Chinese term literally meaning ‘mountain fortress’, the places where smugglers, rogues and thieves were imagined to reside, whose contemporary usage encompasses counterfeit, imitation, or parody products and events, as well as the subculture surrounding them. The term’s modern usage increased about 2008, when shanzhai smartphones achieved their peak domestic popularity.
Today, people associate the phrase with grassroots invention and ingenuity, rather than with deception or imitation. Similarly, Babau’s sonic vignettes talk of naive inconsistent societies and bootleg archipelagos, knock-off folk music and smuggled fragments of musics quilted into a feverish pseudo-regional repertoire. With “ATGWATWAA”, Babau coagulates its sonic weapons and tricks into a new narration leading the listeners to emerging landscapes and disappearing worlds made of magic pressurized air.

Credits : 
Music: Luigi Monteanni & Matteo Pennesi 
Design: Romain Guillo

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All The Gurls Were At The Women's Archo Ashinto

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Babau - All The Gurls Were At The Women's Archo Ashinto (Full Album)  [BSLP008]

Label, podcast series and parties blurring the lines between global folk traditions, digital surrealism, and internet-age psychedelia.
Run from Lyon by @erevandj - Active since 2018.

Our releases:
BSLP012 - Js Donny - Death Folk
BSLP011 - Ninja Exotic Machine - Mana Verde
BSLP010 - Reptilian Expo - Imago Mutatis & Other Tales
BSLP009 - Polonius - Antique Fantasia Vol. 4: Polonius 2
BSLP008 - Babau - All The Gurls Were At The Women's Archo Ashinto
BSLP007 - Eiger Drums Propaganda - Live Excerpts
BSLP006 - JS Donny - BnN
BSM001 - Christophe et Loïs Markarian - Charly Markarian : Jeunesse Ne Passe Pas
BSLP005 - Jonquera - La Croix des Cros
BSLP004 - Metra.Vestlud - Coalyqsta
BST003 - V/A - Vapordub: an introduction to contemporary psychedelic music - vol. 1
BSLP003 - Naomie Klaus - A Story of a Global Disease
BSLP002 - Perse - Exile in H
BSLP001 - Jonquera - DARKOS LP
BST002 - V/A - Bamboo Shows Tapes 002
BST001 - V/A - Bamboo Shows Tapes 001

infos, contact, promos, podcasts: bambooastruth@bambooshows.com

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