Post Midnight Wired

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Sounds from the Wire mag.


Jana Winderen - Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone (Excerpt)

Nadah El Shazly - Palmyra

This fractured patchwork of beats, punk, jazz and North African improvisation was pieced together over several years by Nadah El Shazly, who linked like-minded players from Montreal’s busy Hotel2Tango studio with hyperactive Cairo collaborators Maurice Louca and Sam Shalabi. Maha ElNabawi said: “Full of curious ideas regarding temporality, memory and disillusionment, expressed through free improvised instrumentation, electronics and powerful vocalisation.”Wire mag.

Áine O'Dwyer - Underlight

The London based Irish composer, improviser and vocalist has always made a habit of sounding out unusual spaces, but the Brunel tunnel shaft was extraordinary terrain even for her – a 15-metre high cylinder with a reverb time of several seconds, it allowed the arsenal of small instruments she lugged there to evoke the sacred sounds of keening ceremonies. Claire Sawers said: “Humans and instruments blur together in the underground shadows… O’Dwyer’s explorations of forgotten spaces, ways of listening and acoustic phenomena are as rich as ever.”

Sote - Boghze Esfahan

Ata Ebtekar (aka Sote) has been one of electronic music’s most persistent explorers since making a brief appearance on Warp in the 1990s, and his latest album was a sumptuous exploration of Iranian traditional sounds twisted into the strangest forms modern technology will allow. Tristan Bath said: “The digital processes reveal hidden tonal and rhythmic facets hidden within the traditional instrumentation – and vice versa.”

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