Digital copies come with an electronic version of the supplement.
Keep to the rhythm and you’ll keep to life
Kinah Hamilton and The True Believers marks the second narrative proposed by Autogenesis, midway between label and publisher. Hailing from Brazil, if the group is somewhat mysterious about their identities (who is Kinah actually? one wonders), they are nothing but open and generous about their research on rhythms and sonorities. Idealized and produced by Bruno Abdala, Kinah displays an inquisitive use of sampling and demonstrates acute historical awareness. By twisting borders and limits, pushing the very notion of collectivity to its limits, the group reconceives the very idea of nation, accusing the failure of borders, both institutional and imaginary ones, to entirely grasp the human.
Their beat is sanctified and spirals over the ocean, it reaches to the other side, holding the hands of time and finally ready to walk through the corridors of history. This time dressed with royal clothes.
The beat can’t stop. It helps one to find the right cadence, to align oneself with the spirits. It is turned into light and now elevates the dancers to the green pathways, through which we shall move together. And sing it together. And feel it together. Now, for the devoured time of the past and still to come.
Clocking in at 50 minutes, the edition of 55 handmade and numbered pro-dubbed tapes will come with two texts discussing issues of orality, spirituality and resistance. An attempt to expand the reach, as well as the consequences, of a music release. Shipping on around Nov 07.
This time no magazine, but still our stubbornness to contextualize culturally relevant music and to align it with extra-musical universes, that nonetheless coordinate the force and urgency of the artists.
J. Pattio writes about the potential of liminal states such as trance and frenzy and the role of music and the collective therein. His text also contemplates how performances from oppressed margins make use of a transcript of protest and resistance, one that cannot be properly read by outsiders, who in turn rush to stereotype and categorize it as an easy and recognizable other. He has a Ph.D. in Early Modern Philosophy, with focus on the relationships between representation of nature and human intellect. Lately, his interests have been towards a decolonization of history as well as an acute critique of the contemporary, often uncritical, celebration of hybridity.
Anwar D. Uhuru's text focuses on a more mainstream music release, without losing in acuteness and method. His text examines strategies used in order to convey essential elements of African mythology into a Westernised discourse, it goes into the negotiations implicit in such movement. He holds a Ph.D. in African Studies, he is interested in the global impact that whiteness has on anti-blackness as well as in the reclamation of Afro-Diasporic traditional and indigenous memory in oral, written and performance space(s). He currently teaches in St. Louis, Missouri.
This EP by Italian producer Wang Inc. is techno with bleak, harsh atmospherics, meant to illustrate Mediterranean refugee experiences. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 3, 2020
