@cares describes release 'Nerve Day' as "Emotions and experiences mapped into an unconscious journal of inner dialogues". Forthcoming on @zabrarecords.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/cares-real-time-curses

Premiere: Cares - Real Time Curses

Track Premiere: 'There Weren't' by @cares [@zabrarecords]
Read More:  https://paynomindtous.it/therewerent-cares-zabra/
Pre-order: https://zabrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/nerve-day/
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James Beardmore aka Cares is a Toronto-based musician and experimental producer from Birmingham. Influenced by his multidisciplinary background in improv and visual art as well as by his teenage experiences with punk bands in the UK, the artist resorts to audio sources such as field recordings, samples, and both hardware and software instruments for his inspired and skillful sound design that touches at the same time industrial, ambient/noise, and club-oriented music. Later this month, Cares will appear with the 10-track cassette called Nerve Day on the multi-disciplinary electronic label ZABRA, started in 2018 and based in Lisbon, and focused on the interaction between music and performative and digital art.

Cares previously appeared on labels like Collusion, & Options, and early this year on Table Scraps, while also being an active member of the global collective No Exist together with Okay Vivian, Ylang Ylang, and Così e Così. In the course of his prolific career, that brought him to cross path with diverse music communities and pivotal figures like Suzanne Ciani, Lee Ranaldo, and Rabit just to name a few, the artist has been continuously evolving and shaping his production in a multifaceted, morphing entity, both on the stage and in the studio. His latest endeavor, recorded last year in Toronto, is but the latest example of versatility and mastery of sound elements converging in fragmented, unpredictable, and emotional pieces of abstract electronics.

Reportedly inspired by the role of the human nervous system in "interpreting and creating reality", Nerve Day meddles with evocative sound textures, gnawing noise, eroded kickdrums, and bursting electrical discharges in an attempt to shape a free-form, non-conceptual representation of the relationship with one's self and external reality as well as the interactions between conscious and unconscious drives. The final outing is a mammoth audio chimera that can be as elusive and tranquil as it can be eventful and unforgiving, much close to an unfiltered stream of consciousness in the form of pressure airwaves.

Nerve Day will be published in the form of a limited-edition, 40-page art publication designed by Cares himself, together with custom-packaged cassettes mastered by Graham Galbraith-Nolan. The release is set for next Friday, March 26, and you can pre-order your copy at this link. Today, we are presenting on our channels the third track of the record, called There Weren't, and possibly the most aggressive among the others thanks to its abrupt sound explosions, distorted kicks, and detuned synth stabs that suddenly switch off and mutate in the most tender and ethereal melody. Don't miss this stunning record on ZABRA!

Cares - There Weren't [PAYNOMINDTOUS Premiere / ZABRA]

Emotions and experiences mapped into an unconscious journal of inner dialogues. A deliberate rejection of concept or commentary. Impressions processed into sound without being reduced to concrete meaning, inviting intuitive connection.

Recorded January to August 2020.

Mastered by Graham Galbraith-Nolan.

Released on ZABRA, March 26, 2021 on digital and a limited cassette and art book.

https://soundcloud.com/cares
https://soundcloud.com/zabrarecords

Premiere: Cares - FATIGUE SHAPES II [ZABRA]

Taken from MA'AM (@anna-makay) new EP Ignora, out November 26, 2021, via ZABRA (@zabrarecords)

Read: https://bit.ly/3x8vn0J
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3HyxuQ4

There is an immersion in an intimate universe of a liturgy where a language isn't understood in its total form, but we allow ourselves to experience it in order to feel, to be guided. This EP sprouts a language that comes from an inverse sense - it invades our interior and flourishes between our skin and organs. There is a sense of unease, the boundary between dark and light is very thin, making us wonder if the definition of barrier or limit really exists or it isn't all a single liquid that extends since our birth to our death, a thread that wraps us around our body, whispers, screams, moans and touches us, passively stirring the blood, making it warm. Ignora by MA'AM is the 16º release of ZABRA. With this release we extend ourselves to a deeper universe of the voices and the meaning of the word in order to challenge the language and its deconstruction process.

Released by ZABRA

Premiere: MA'AM - Matilda [ZABRA]

Om Unit invites – Myako 27TH DEC 2021

Taken from Celine Arnauld (@celinearnauld) new album Narrative, out April 8, 2022, via ZABRA (@zabrarecords)

Read: https://bit.ly/3J0nui9
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3DziwI1

The album's concept unfolds on the narrative identity and the postulates of Paul Ricoeur, where he says life is narrated, examined and retaken because we are narrated stories of the past and present. This involves the actual concept of historicity, understood as the capacity that history, like a ‘singular collective’ , has to give a satisfactory response to the aporia of past, present and future fragmentation. "Narrative" is divided into two parts: past and future, where a journey through childhood to adulthood is glimpsed. Identity could be said to be the story of an individual, evolving inner life, integrating a reconstructed past and an imagined future in order to provide life with some degree of unity and purpose. On the relationship between life stories and the adaptation, that shows that the term "narrators" is multiplied in several meanings; of redeemers from suffering or even adversity, and who construct life stories that present themes of agency and personal exploration. They also tend to enjoy the highest levels of mental health, well-being and maturity. It could be said that this work it's a development of narrative identity from the origins from young children to the articulation of sophisticated strategies in personal stories told in adolescence to the emerging years of adulthood, where feelings are mixed and wrapped in a poetic conflict between emotions-machines and organic echoes.

Artwork by João Pedro Fonseca

Mastering by André Teixeira

Released by ZABRA

Premiere: Celine Arnauld - Deconstruct The Problem [ZABRA]

The album's concept unfolds on the narrative identity and the postulates of Paul Ricoeur, where he says life is narrated, examined and retaken because we are narrated stories of the past and present. This involves the actual concept of historicity, understood as the capacity that history, like a ‘singular collective’ , has to give a satisfactory response to the aporia of past, present and future fragmentation. 

"Narrative" is divided into two parts: past and future, where a journey through childhood to adulthood is glimpsed. Identity could be said to be the story of an individual, evolving inner life, integrating a reconstructed past and an imagined future in order to provide life with some degree of unity and purpose. On the relationship between life stories and the adaptation, that shows that the term "narrators" is multiplied in several meanings; of redeemers from suffering or even adversity, and who construct life stories that present themes of agency and personal exploration. They also tend to enjoy the highest levels of mental health, well-being and maturity. 

It could be said that this work it's a development of narrative identity from the origins from young children to the articulation of sophisticated strategies in personal stories told in adolescence to the emerging years of adulthood, where feelings are mixed and wrapped in a poetic conflict between emotions-machines and organic echoes.

https://soundcloud.com/celinearnauld
https://soundcloud.com/zabrarecords

Premiere: Celine Arnauld - Remembrance III - Experience Is Negative [ZABRA]

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https://wrongwrong.net/article/spectrum-awareness

Spectrum Awareness is a trio comprised of Inês Carincur (voice and electronics), João Pedro Fonseca (loops and visuals) and João Valinho (drums). The project, which would end up integrating ZABRA Records' colective, has its origins by the end of 2019, with a presentation at Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, within the scope of Temps d'Images Festival.
With their respective trajectories and with distinct connections to music, plastic arts and performance art, the three share an impulse to push, blend and break aesthetic boundaries, turning the process itself into the outcome of creation. It was, thus, natural that the initial focus behind the collaboration was live performance, taking on the contingency that improvisation entails, as opposed to developing a composed, planned structure beforehand. What's presented here is a recording of one of those performances.

There will be a set of atmospheric conditions that are the starting point of each test. The scenography created in the live setting are a reflexion of it, as are the initial moments of each piece. Given the tone, a semi-controled process unfolds, with synchrony at its limit and of unexpected results. Over the course of five and a half minutes, one wanders amidst dense atmospheres, metal in entropy and a shifting drum kick in a somewhat organic repetition that distinguishes the ritualistic tone of an ancestral mythology or the elegiac motifs of forsaken metallurgical plants. At one point in time, a voice is heard, something on the cusp of operatic chanting, perpetually disturbed by indistinguishable vocalizations, hostages of a never ending feedback loop. We're left uncertain of what is archive material and what is played or sung live. Everything arrives at us interstitially, as fragments of a whole which cannot fully be restored.

Manuel Bogalheiro

Spectrum Awareness, live session for Wrong Wrong Magazine [ZABRA]

Transdisciplinary and experimental electronic label based in Lisbon, since 2018.

https://zabra.co

mail: info@zabra.co

Spectrum Awareness, live session for Wrong Wrong Magazine [ZABRA]

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