With an insanely sought-after debut LP released earlier this year already trading for $$$, the enigma that is Aeson Zervas returns with an outstanding plot twist of electro-chaabi street rave abstractions paying homage to his patrilineal Egyptian roots with a rugged, drum-spurred set that sounds something like Actress doing screwed electro-chaabi.
With copies of that debut LP now trading for triple figures, Aeson Zervas swerves expectations by adding drums and vocal idents to his mesmerising keyboard chops on ‘Hazlom’. Past meets present on nine swaggering renditions of the fiery Cairene street rave sound shotted by likes of EEK & Islam Chipsy that has emerged in ballistic permutations from the likes of ZULI, 3Phaz and 1127 in recent years. No doubt it’s bang up for it in a way that his preceding album did not hint at, and all the better for it, connecting threads between the deep past and heritage of Mediterranean rim musics that continue to inform and branch into the present.
Plangent horns and microtonal keyboards edge into weirder basslines gnawed by noise in a similar way to how Christos Chondropoulos’ ‘Relics’ implied Greek music as a mosaic of DNA from across Asia and North Africa, due to the expansion and vacuuming collapse of the ancient Greek empire. Zervas’ zeroes in on the relationship between Greece and Egypt and the broader Arabic world here, but with a crucial artistic license that prompts him to mess with the aesthetic and find something fresh but timeless in the process, uncannily echoing in parts Actress’ hazed out take on Detroit techno or DJ Niraha as much as Jay Glass Dubs slants on Roma gypsy wedding music.
A+ deep and mysterious biz.
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With an insanely sought-after debut LP released earlier this year already trading for $$$, the enigma that is Aeson Zervas returns with an outstanding plot twist of electro-chaabi street rave abstractions paying homage to his patrilineal Egyptian roots with a rugged, drum-spurred set that sounds something like Actress doing screwed electro-chaabi.
With copies of that debut LP now trading for triple figures, Aeson Zervas swerves expectations by adding drums and vocal idents to his mesmerising keyboard chops on ‘Hazlom’. Past meets present on nine swaggering renditions of the fiery Cairene street rave sound shotted by likes of EEK & Islam Chipsy that has emerged in ballistic permutations from the likes of ZULI, 3Phaz and 1127 in recent years. No doubt it’s bang up for it in a way that his preceding album did not hint at, and all the better for it, connecting threads between the deep past and heritage of Mediterranean rim musics that continue to inform and branch into the present.
Plangent horns and microtonal keyboards edge into weirder basslines gnawed by noise in a similar way to how Christos Chondropoulos’ ‘Relics’ implied Greek music as a mosaic of DNA from across Asia and North Africa, due to the expansion and vacuuming collapse of the ancient Greek empire. Zervas’ zeroes in on the relationship between Greece and Egypt and the broader Arabic world here, but with a crucial artistic license that prompts him to mess with the aesthetic and find something fresh but timeless in the process, uncannily echoing in parts Actress’ hazed out take on Detroit techno or DJ Niraha as much as Jay Glass Dubs slants on Roma gypsy wedding music.
A+ deep and mysterious biz.