Daphne X // The Plumb Sutra TAPE

 ギリシャ出身スペイン・バルセロナのストレンジビーツ作家Daphne Xが、2021年10月にイギリス／オーストリアの実験レーベルBezirk Tapesからリリースしたカセットです。

パラレルワールドの民族音楽8曲を収録。DLコード付属。

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Includes DL code. Cassette in norelco case.

Tracklist:

1. Sourdough's Childhood 05:20
2. Irimia's Bones Crackle 02:50
3. Halo Dragon 09:12
4. Day in the Slug's Crossing 03:21
5. Eliseo's Teeth Chatter 10:36
6. La Siesta del Xiaco 03:47
7. Olive Tree 03:34
8. Kontakion of the Apple 02:28

Text excerpt by Bezirk Tapes:

"The seven tracks here take in everything from the synthetic chirps and splashes of ‘Irimia’s Bones Crackle’ through spooky piano laments on ‘Eliseo’s Teeth Chatter’. While ‘Halo Dragon’ is a rabble rousing electro-acoustic folk dance of bounding percussion and polyphonic vocal lines. Mostly, the eight tracks are a beautiful document of Daphne X’s playful openness to the sounds and stories around her.

The Plumb Sutra was recorded in an isolated rural house in a semi-abandoned region of Galicia. Specifically, along the banks of the Miño, a river which, according to Galician folklore, was home to witches, animals and amphibian human in peaceful coexistence. The site is now threatened by pollution from a major landfill in nearby Eiroás.

“There we spent our days with the only other neighbour, Otilia, an 85-year-old farmer, who had never left the place,” explains Daphne X. “Her presence and the stories we heard from her, the soft rain that would fall continuously, the absolute serenity of the place, the fog that would cover everything in the absence of sun, the distant moans of the cows, the little squeals of the mink that would nest in our walls, the hooting of the owl in the attic, the purring of our shared cat, the sole company of the birds, the frogs, the crickets, the apparent discretion of human intervention in this vast area that sheltered us in those 6 months made us turn inward and grow like Otilia´s giant zucchinis.”"

Artist : Daphne X

Label : Bezirk Tapes