Rashad Becker 'Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. I' (PAN 34)
LP/DL - Release Date: July 2013

'Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. I' is a devastating display of potential which ensures a journey unlike any you have encountered.  In the vast world of electronic music, where sounds, signifiers and gesture's are recontextualized to a numbing degree it is increasingly rare and refreshing to encounter a release as perspective distorting as the debut full length release by Rashad Becker.  The album is a masterpiece of focussed non-referential electronic environments.  It is is both warm, alien, paranoid and exhilarating.  Sounds are stretched in the most unusual manner, foreign bodies are frequent and the structure is simply bewildering.  Split into 'Themes and Dances', the 8 tracks guide the listener through Becker's brave new world.  Despite being entirely synthetic there are sounds which appear like a distortion of the world around us, on occasion 'voice-like' sounds are present, elsewhere there appears the sound of cicada's, only these cicada's are made of mercury and swim through time.

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Rashad Becker 'Dances III' (PAN 34)

Canadian multi-instrumentalist and “studio rat” Daniel Lanois occupies a place in popular music like no other. He sat at the summit of the music industry in the dizzy heights of the 1980s, producing and mixing for acts like U2 and Peter Gabriel, and has the wealth to show for it: an old Buddhist temple in Toronto, a mansion in L.A. where he “just hangs out”, and a place in Jamaica which is “where I hang my hat”, a '72 Cadillac that “you can put about twelve people in,” and a collection of studio gear that many would kill for.

Daniel Lanois Interview in London

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RASHAD BECKER - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol II

Format: LP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 74
Release Date: 02 December 2016

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Rashad Becker's new full length album, 'Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol II', due for release next month on PAN is a newly developed continuation and exploration of work since his highly-acclaimed first 
volume.

Incorporating more instrumental-sounding components, the record moves through both fluid and dissonant sounds which take on different structural and sculptural challenges through carefully-layered compositions. 

Following 'Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol I', the new album expands in various elements, distorted and warped, focusing in on the tension and energy of synthesized sounds that appear to exist hauntingly physically.

Known for his unrivalled attention to sonic detail across his work, Becker's unique techniques and expressive manipulations of sound are laid bare in an exhilarating new form, stylistically distinctive and uncompromising. 

The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring artwork by Bill Kouligas.

traditional music of notional species vol.II

Rashad Becker - Dances VII (PAN 74)

https://mutamassik.bandcamp.com/album/symbols-follow

From Lp "Symbols Follow" 2015.  All Artwork/Tracks/Instruments (Drums, Percussion, Cello, Keyboard) performed, produced, written, mixed, engineered by Mutamassik aka Giulia Loli for Sa'aidi Heartcore Productions/KMT BBB USA.  Special Guest Vocals: Victory Hanna El Qommos Ommi Habibty
Track Art: "Coptic Mic", Pencil on Paper, G. Loli
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= Giulia Loli. Manual Arts Engineer.  Early Education from Funky Mother Land & Chanting in Church Choirs. Drums+Cello in post-punk Pgh while training as painter. Cut teeth as performer, turntablist, producer in NYC 90's avant garde & Cairo 2000 to Etruscan Mountain-Forest Cave-Studio to North. In service to Newly Ancient Spirituals+++GOD
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