XEXA // Vibrações de Prata LP

ポルトガル・リスボン出身イギリス・ロンドン在住のレフトフィールド・エレクトロニック作家XEXAが、2023年10月にポルトガル・リスボンの実験／ダンスレーベルPríncipeからリリースしたデビューレコードです。

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Ask us for digital files. 12" black vinyl presented in individually hand-painted sleeve. Edition of 500. 

Tracklist:

1. Libelula 02:07
2. Nha Dêdê 02:35
3. Fragmented Breath 02:21
4. Silver 02:01
5. Assim 02:08
6. Sisters Dancing 01:48
7. Prendes Nh'alma 02:29
8. SectionAudio 02:19
9. Clarinet Mood 09:37

Príncipe:

"This is a presentation of Xexa's different sensibilities as a composer, musician and sound designer, mapping what are in effect her initial explorations with voice, rhythms, synths, ambience, ever searching for an organic final result. As a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) between 2019 and a still fresh 2023, she presented in her third year a portfolio that included what we can now listen as "Clarinet Mood", the final track on "Vibrações De Prata". Her intention was to «study the feeling of listening to music as an environment one inhabits and not as a sound that follows you throughout the day. Walk into, instead of listening to, an ambience». With no previous clarinet training, Xexa explores its palpable sound as a physical doorway to this realm.

Four other tracks ("Assim", "Nha Dêdê", "Fragmented Breath" and "Prendes Nh'Alma") formed part of what she named the 2021 Sound Calendar. Out of a (natural) total of 12 compositions, these four connect with other intimate moments to tell a broader story, one of fragility, «like a flower about to bloom, we can detect first glimpses of colour and form but can't yet divine its final form».

This sort of imaginative sonic micro-management can also be found on "Libelula", where the synth attempts to recreate the beating of a dragonfly's wings. Minute details are a major feature in jewelry, an art Xexa studied in her native Lisbon's António Arroio school. Free spirited as she is, Lisbon is merely a geographical location where she was born, no particular feeling of being Portuguese attached to her position in the world. So far, Xexa's origins in São Tomé and Príncipe and a prolonged stint in London (it feels prolonged, at such a young age) are the two other major environments that form her experience as a human being but also as an artist. We are extremely proud to have been able to access truly special creative, intimate moments and help bring out into the world this physical manifestation of beautiful contemporary music. "

Artist : XEXA

Label : Príncipe