Babau // The Sludge of the Land LP

過去にDiscrepantやIkuisuus、Canti Magneticiなどから発表しているイタリアの音響作家Luigi MonteanniとMatteo PennesiによるストレンジビーツデュオBabauが、2025年11月にアメリカ・NYの実験／ダンスレーベルPatience / Impatienceからリリースしたレコードです。

パラレルワールドの民族音楽8曲を収録。

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RELEASE DATE: 14th November 2025

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12" black vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. The sound of a continent moving… animals, plants and minerals included
2. When we fell into the eternal glide it was too late to escape the extreme verticality, we left walking on vampire steps 03:47
3. As long as blue hours unravel, ghost music will travel
4. Wunderkammer Unbound 04:43
5. The lavacast landscapes resembled mountains and pyramids but took all the many different shapes of the spawn
6. I tried to find myself but eventually found another, and now it's the two of us somehow
7. The tale of the monkey-snake-woman who through her miraculous transformation made us God-fearing and diluted the state's temporal power
8. Facemelt

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Patience / Impatience:

"The Sludge of The Land is the new album by digital folklore and post-exoticism Italian duo Babau. Their first full length since 2023’s Flatland Explorations Vol. 2, with The Sludge Of The Land Babau lands on Impatience with their signature audio-prestidigitation at its most disorientingly pungent and zonked, a uniquely contemporary approach described as the sound of a continent moving; animals, plants and minerals included.

As part of a residency at Casa degli Artisti, Milan, in 2022, Babau turned their atelier into a recording studio and performing venue thanks to audio engineer and musician Francesco Piro, who produced the entirety of the album. There, the duo improvised with different acoustic and digital instruments for several hours a day. Returning after ten years to a sound more akin to a band or small orchestra, Babau re-explores tropes and themes of exotica and jazz from their unique and off-kilter perspective of terminally-online diggers/dwellers of the internet flatland.

An homage to digital content consumption and dopamine-infused sensory overloads, The Sludge Of The Land imagines itself as an abstract sonic wunderkammer of online detritus. By diving into the world of ‘sludge content’: audiovisual chaos produced by mixing different internet content using split screens or dizzying patchworks of videos, Babau celebrates the formless, viscous goo, spam, chum and slop of out-of-context moving image, fast paced digital videos and lo-fi mp4 artifacts. By endlessly spiraling into the latent non-spaces of The Net, Babau explore the uncharted parageographies of lavacasts, mysterious Chinese anthropozoomorphic legendary beings, vampiric doomscrolling glides and doppelgangerish, ctrl+c & ctrl+v spiritualism. These ghosts of pointless microevents and traveling-without-moving bedroom boredom are stuffed by Babau with the epic tone and compositional approach of exotica and world music 2.0 reveries, resulting in an absurd, playful narrative about the dangers and allures of the web.

Bringing together the sound of Richard Hayman and Black Dice, Korla Pandit and Sun Araw, Tony Scott and Carl Stone, once again the duo crafts a compelling audio-textual hallucination of transglobal chimerae. A multi-fi, extremely layered treasure of fifth world music. "

Artist : Babau

Label : Patience / Impatience