Qoa // SAUCO LP / TAPE

アルゼンチン・ブエノスアイレスのポストニューエイジ作家Qoaが、2024年7月にアメリカ・LAの老舗オールジャンルレーベルLeaving Recordsからリリースしたアルバムです。

マイナスイオンが溢れ出すトロピカル・ストレンジビーツ〜ポストニューエイジ・アンビエント9曲を収録。DLコード付属。

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Includes DL code. Available on 12" black vinyl or cassette in norelco case.

Tracklist:

1. SAUCO 04:22
2. LIQUEN 02:50
3. YATEI 03:04
4. MUITU 03:16
5. CIEVRVO DE LOS PANTANOS 05:43
6. LIPPIA ALBA 02:37
7. SENNA 06:37
8. ANARTIA 02:36
9. ZAFIRO DEL TALAR 04:36

Text excerpt by Leaving Records:

"...SAUCO is a fertile and bracing voyage into the Argentinian wilderness, a journey both mournful and healing—an effort to trace what has been lost, what remains, and what might return. Each of SAUCO’s nine tracks draws its name and inspiration from a lifeform (be it plant, animal, lichen, insect) native to QOA’s homeland. These songs are carefully crafted offerings to their namesakes: attempts to study, honor, and convey the essence of the thing.

Perhaps even we might consider these songs to be collaborations between QOA and this humble roster of entities—collaborations with often therapeutic applications. What, for example, can we as individuals draw from the Sambucus Nigra or Black Sauco—the tree that serves as the album’s title track (and which grows, coincidentally, both in QOA’s Argentina as well as Leaving Records’ home-base of Los Angeles)?

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...Conceptually rigorous, SAUCO is nevertheless a soothing, often joyful listen. Generally straddling the slippery boundary separating ambient and dance music (with a healthy supplemental dose of environmental recordings), incidental delights abound: moments of organic rupture (ex: “Muiti’s” melodic raindrop preamble). It is a song collection suffused with concern for interdependence, co-creation, and an almost prayerful attention to minutia and microcosm—a release that rewards (in different ways, and to varying extents) both active and passive listening."

Artist : Qoa

Label : Leaving Records