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Nazar’s “Demilitarize” sees the artist channeling Ghost in the Shell
Nazar’s Demilitarize, out this month on Hyperdub, is essential listening – reimagined Angolan kuduro DNA woven into a sound world inspired by processing trauma and absorbing the ethos of anime classic Ghost in the Shell. It follows two releases that responded to the civil war with an imaginative, intimate coda.
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Arash Azadi’s music returns to primordial states of human existence
In whirling, abstract flights of noise and oscillations, composer Arash Azadi makes electronics that evolve as if in an electro-organic primordial ooze. And he has something to say about returning us all to a deeper state of existence.
Meditation in a time of war: Ukrainian music innovator Kotra interview, premiere
Extreme-distorted metallic surfaces buzz on the surface, but there’s deep meditation beneath. Ukraine’s Kotra, aka Dmytro Fedorenko, returns to CDM to tell us how he’s coping with the invasion of his home country and how we can respond – starting with keeping our minds together.
At Instruments series by Morphine Records, physicality and improvisation meet invention
Peter Kirn - November 1, 2021
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The making of a fanciful album imagining a post-apocalyptic future
Peter Kirn - October 19, 2016
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