GEORGIA/BELLOWS - Decouple ][ Series

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GEORGIA/BELLOWS - Decouple ][ Series

"The first in a series of six split records concerning dependencies, miscommunication and increasing complexity in our media-saturated digital era. Georgia and Bellows inaugurate the Decouple ][ Series with works between futuristic eclecticism and avant-garde pan-aesthetics, where musical themes flow tangentially. Similar, but without effectively engaging one another. A metaphor for a world of surfaces. Recorded in Georgia's Chinatown NYC studio, "Tiwala Sa Bhuay", featuring Gabi Asfour, abruptly throw us into freaky percussion clusters constructed from heavily processed sounds which seem to keep in balance just by the magic of repetitions. Justin Tripp and Brian Close's stylistic fusion acts like an antidote against GPS localization, with sounds and voices more reminiscent of data flowing through a proxy server than an acoustic performance -- a myriad of tiny elements resonates with the multi-cultural a-geographic perception of a contemporary metropolis. "A Habitual Sway" (an anagram of the first title) flows more slowly, mixing hypnotic rhythmic percussions loops, melodic sketches, and controlled distortions into sophisticated layers. Naïve digital strings pads incursions widen the picture further. Georgia run an NTS monthly residency of oddball electronics. Digging into their sound archive, Bellows build an immersive Konrad-esque 19 minutes of humid and winding electronics with "Untitled". Drawing on years of improvising experience, Nicola Rattiand Giuseppe Ielasi take a puristic avant-garde approach, using tape loops, static, modular synths and field recordings. A subtle nostalgia pervades the whole work - the music sneaks through lush, decadent dystopian visions like in a travelogue. Mallets, statics, cut-up white noise, synthetic kicks, and uncannily pitched voices branch out like roots, while digital birds whistle all around in an aquatic atmosphere, perhaps suggesting an ironic take on "Orientalism". All cover pictures for the Decouple ][ Series are taken from Alice Bonfanti's Transparent Things(1997), courtesy of the artist. Includes download code. Mini-LP split, with 14- and 19-minute sides." - Ooh-Sounds.
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