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Releases 5 May 2023

UUUSE is a new label for contemporary music. Our debut release remembers a double bill performance night at Perdu in Amsterdam where Ivan Cheng and Steven Warwick each presented a new work. This split EP arrives on the anniversary of the night. The two tracks exist in an ambiguous limbo. Are they live recordings from Perdu? Faithful renditions? Or entirely new compositions?
 
Riffing off the fictional town of "Stars Hollow" from the popular early 2000s television series Gilmore Girls, for 'Suns Hollow' Ivan Cheng was joined on stage by artist Magdalena Mitterhofer. For his contribution to the EP, the performance in-ear track of a duologue between the characters Rory Gilmore (Mitterhofer) and Lane Kim (Cheng) is placed over his feedback cover of The La's 1990 hit 'There She Goes'; the first song heard in the pilot episode of Gilmore Girls. With a text heavy with cultural references, he goes further into the aspirations and dynamics of the two ‘best friends’ from different cultural backgrounds.

Steven Warwick, also known under the moniker Heatsick, completes the record with ’There Will Be’. Combining a syncopated hi-hat with heavily distorted vocals, he delivers an Americana cowboy dance medley – a meandering, surreal snippet that ends with a triumphant blast of cinematic noise. During the performance, Warwick appeared onstage as various personas, changing costumes and characters to narrate an epic poem depicting the nightmare of representation, speech acts, drag, neoliteral, bureaucratic interventions into rising societal and global threats

Muddying dominant narratives, from the frameworks of crisis and control to aspirational fandom, to the purity of the original, uncontaminated art form, UUU01 tells a blurry story. It occupies the space between the real and the re-membered, offering a distorted documentation of Cheng’s and Warwick’s performances. Commissioned as part of the series ‘Speaker, Broker, Stringer’, both performances responded to an invitation to play with the notion of Werktreue, fidelity to an original text.


Credits

Suns Hollow written and produced by Ivan Cheng 
There Will Be written and produced by Steven Warwick

Artwork by K&A

Mastering, Mixing (Track 1) by Kane Ikin 
Words by Hannah Pezzack

Ivan Cheng - Suns Hollow (UUU01)

UUU02 (Tape)

https://uuuse.bandcamp.com/album/serrure-relax

Oï les Ox (Aude Van Wyller) presents a blurred scene of original music and warped covers. Traces of Sonic Youth, Blondie, and Ruth emerge together with shimmering synths, disjointed drums, and Van Wyller's voice. She sings lyrics of songs that were hallucinated by an AI model, while she shifts her compositions throughshadows of the original versions. 

Unimpressed by technical form, Van Wyller patiently splices material only to let it fray. "I want to tell your understanding kadar of ету, I want to modify myself," she tells us. Somewhere in this world, hallucinating eyelashes draw closed skies, while the arcades of polyphony fold into the mysteries of multimodality.

For this contribution to the ‘Speaker, Broker, Stringer’ series at Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, Van Wyller also drew from plunderphonics and shredding, the YouTube practice of interpreting the actual sounds of music videos. The mix contains shreds by YouTube users, as well as a male narrative voice written by Oï les Ox.

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Oï les Ox
Aude Van Wyller, born 1991, is a visual artist and composer from Paris. She is interested in poetry and music,  its dispersion in many spaces such as stairs, amphitheatres, concert rooms, gardens. After creating multi-channel installations performing readings with actors and recordings, she worked on a single project of sound poetry and electronic music, under the moniker Oï les Ox, called ‘Crooner qui coule sous les clous’ (A crooner that sinks under nails).
It has been released in 2020 on tape and reissued in 2021 on vinyl via The Death of Rave (UK) and digitally by Primordial Void (US). She released another EP on K-Rut/Kraak records (BE) with ‘Terrain Transparent’ in 2020.

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Credits

Mix and additional music by Aude van Wyller

Voices: Aude Van Wyller, Florian Pentsch

shreds from youtube users  Clapping Sources - Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Shred)
Clapping Sources - Every breath you take (Shred)
Moderzew8 - Miles Davis Shred 
Songs covered or sampled:
Randomize- La Armonia de las esferras
Blondie - One way or another live
Ruth-Mots
Sonic Youth - Shadow of a doubt
Fleetwood Mac - Chains


Master: Monty Mouw
Curation, ML script: Arif Kornweitz
Serrure Relax is a commission in the ‘Speaker, Broker, Stringer’ series of Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee.

Oï les Ox - Serrure Relax (UUU02)

@nurali0720 for UUUSE on Echobox Radio


find more shows at https://www.echobox.radio/shows/uuuse

Nurali - UUUSE mix

@juju10v3 in the studio for an hour of.. jujulove

recorded at echobox radio in amsterdam

jujulove - UUUSE mix

Alexis Bondoux in the studio for an hour of Tyrrfon.

Tyrrfon - UUUSE Mix

𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 is 37 min piece by @anjangozi - available on tape and digi
listen in full at https://uuuse.bandcamp.com/album/still

𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 encourages rest and relaxation, weaving together binaural frequencies with additional sounds and sonics that reference nature, and pay tribute to influential, inspiring black artists. 

rest is an act of resistance and a way to reclaim power, to assert our being and help us move away from power structures like white supremacy and capitalist systems which push us toward machine-like productivity.

𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 is a live rendition of a score for a video game by the artist Sondi, titled Mbombo: Dream Echoes.

still (excerpt) (UUU03)

Alec Mateo’s debut album Polanco Tapes is coming up on UUUSE. The album introduces Pluto Polanco, the subject of a series of musical projects to come. The first single, Needed, is a song about the insistence of corporeal immediacy; about bodies caught up in the making and unmaking of worlds; about dancing in basements. 


Needed

Written, produced and performed by Alec Mateo 

Full album
https://uuuse.bandcamp.com/album/polanco-tapes

Don't Make Me Scam

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