Episode EP.46 (4.9.23)
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XPRESS-IONS Radio w/Traxion. EP.46 (4.9.23)

World-renowned drummer-composer Valentina Magaletti teams up with Japanese music producer and multi-instrumentalist Susumu Mukai aka Zongamin for the 11th episode of Kuboraum’s Digital Sound Residency. 

Valentina Magaletti and Susumu Mukai have been long-time collaborators since Vanishing Twin, the trio formed in 2015 with Cathy Lucas exploring the spaces bridging jazz and psychedelia through a sound at the juncture of minimalism, kosmische, post-punk, and dream-laden, psychedelic pop.

More recently, Zongamin joined Holy Tongue, a studio project formed in 2018 by producer and musician Al Wootton and Valentina Magaletti. Product of an improvised session in East London, Holy Tongue crafts a sound heavily influenced by dub reggae, translating into high energy live sets that invoke the experimental dub of On-U-Sound, the frenetic rhythms of 23 Skidoo, Liquid Liquid and ESG. The result is psychedelic, free-form, high energy, spiritual dub-dance music. 
Following on from a trilogy of critically acclaimed Eps, Holy Tongue recently released their debut album ‘Deliverance And Spiritual Warfare’ (2023) on Amidah Records, which channels their diverse influences, from the opening Andalusian catholic march to heavyweight dub via jazz, post punk, mystical percussion tracks and techno.

Valentina Magaletti and Zongamin make a fluid and effortless pair, neatly aligned and in perfect synergy with one another, allowing their own artistic talents to shine through their musical outputs. This becomes evident in their debut record as V/Z of dubby post-punk ‘Suono Assente’ (2023) on AD93, where Magaletti plays guitar and keys, sharing bass, percussion and vocal duties with Mukai, together with special guests as Vanishing Twin's Cathy Lucas, Coby Sey and Venus Ex Machina. Veering away from the psychedelic pop of VT, V/Z leans more heavily on influences from hip-hop, dub, post-punk and electronica, with a more open and fluid approach.

 “Whilst its brief twenty-eight minute runtime flashes by, leaving us gasping for more, Suono Assente never feels rushed. Making the temporary existence of this transient brilliance feel even more exceptional. No sooner has its presence lifted us, than it’s vanished once more, leaving a gaping void that can only be filled by immediately circling back to the start and dropping the needle once more.” (The Quietus)

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V/Z - All The Rest Of It

Geniuses at work.
Master percussionist and composer Valentina Magaletti and master music producer and multi-instrumentalist Susumu Zongamin Makai shielding the rain with giant sonic umbrella made of radio waves.
Impromptu recordings, proto postpunk from the mist of East London basements for a trip to Maryland that is yet to happen.

A01 Tobu
A02 Stickers
A03 Jazz For Women
A04 An IKEA Moment
B01 Its Cold In Baltimore
B02 Esatto
B03 You Started It
B04 Scan To Switch
B05 Grace Maze
B06 Tobu Reprise

OFFEN TAPE 002


It's Cold In Baltimore

V/Z - It's Cold In Baltimore - OFFEN TAPE 002 (snippets)

@mytronmusic & @zongamin - Alchemy II
Label - @multiculti

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PREMIERE – Mytron & Zongamin – Alchemy II (Multi Culti)

Zongamin and Mytron reunite on Multi Culti with an album of collaborations. Exploring the depths of leftfield outernationalism these two mainstays of our global family serve up a colorful array of mind-altering disco and interdimensional dub.
 
Tribal motifs merge with field recordings while synthesized animals call out over exotic hand percussion. Jams on vintage synths meet 8-bit sampling bounced onto spring reverbs and digital delays from the 80s.
 
Started mid-pandemic, this collaboration ignored the surrounding havoc and social distancing, instead focussing on Good VibesTM and positivity with a genre-defying approach belying trans-continental origins. The result is a playful symbiosis that is PHatter than the sum of its elements.

Mytron is Jacek Janiszewski, a pan-European multi-instrumentalist, producer and DJ, born in Poland, raised in Holland and Germany, and now living in London for the best part of a decade, his releases, for labels including XXX, Codek, Bordello A Parigi, Multi Culti, Nein and Les Yeux Orange, herald a similar nomadic spirit.

Zongamin, Susumu Mukai is a composer, producer, and illustrator based in London. He has released records on Multi Culti, Flesh Records, XL recordings, Ed Banger, ESP Institute, and AD93, and has remixed for Air, John Cale, Trevor Jackson, Sandro Perri, and others. He is a member of groups Vanishing Twin, V/Z, Holy Tongue, and Stalactite.

Arboretum

Kitsuné Music – KITSUNE MUSIC 008
Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
France
February 2004
Electronic
House, Electro

Italian Fireflies (by Black Strobe)

Hotel 17 (by Zongamin)

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