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Non Masse is the new LP from Brussels-based artist and producer Apulati Bien. After several notable releases on the Parisian label Promesses (OO:NÉ, RER TRACKS, and Azone, jointly released on the Belgian label KRAAK) in solo or via the duo XOLOT he forms with artist Vica Pacheco, navigating in a neo-futuristic aesthetic with glitch and experimental influences mixed with juke, footwork, and more broadly bass music heritage, Apulati Bien explores this time new territories, devoid of preconceived forms and leaving more space to each element. Recorded at the time of the finalization of his last album Azone released in February 2022, with the will to proceed with a different method, even opposed to the one he knows, Non Masse (whose title is equivocal of the approach) is a more aerial object, with unquantified structures and sliding material, reflecting a feeling of "wanting to get out of (his) own mass", according to his words. A feeling certainly shared by many during the troubled period of the last two years, and which echoes a general desire for detachment, for withdrawal combined with a search for discovery in these overloaded times. Non Masse is not however an object apart from Apulati Bien's discography, where you find the main elements of his music: futuristic references, glitch, and digital contortions, which should not be approached as a light object but as a complex one, where the subtle details don't aim at diverting the attention, but on the contrary at nourishing a more global speech. The title "Alone Global" of one of the tracks is probably the most accurate definition of this project.
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Deficiency is the first solo release of Gyeongsu. This record is a collection of ten songs recorded in the past three years, ideas and sketches initially conceived separately and evoking different moods at the time of birth. Supported by NTS's Ony, Maria Somerville, Zaltan Antinote, Okonkole Y Trompa... To the empty-stadium rock opener "after diner not yet" to the buzzing closing "a post", through the fading down cello on "gratitude" to the burgeoning arpeggios of "1,2,3", the record is continuously furnishing elements of guitar in different states of work, juxtaposed on additional drums, bass lines, nebulous voices, and samples sometimes reminiscent of a psychedelic state or confused dream with many elements hard to reassemble. All songs have been mixed by Yohann Henry at Plush Space Studio, Paris. Mastered by Lorenzo Targhetta. One-sided LP.
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