Island no.16 - Memories of Future Landscapes
A concréte approach to traditional Taiwanese folk music, flaying field recordings with imaginative electronic processes, laying down a remarkable psychedelic narrative in the process.
Hailing from Taipai and now based in Berlin, Sabiwa released two albums before landing on 'No.16 - Memories of Future Landscapes', a dizzying collection of sculpted field recordings, asymmetric rhythms and unusual vocals. A self-styled audio-visual artist who's written extensively for film and TV, Sabiwa takes Taiwanese folk music as a primary influence, processing her voice alongside awkward environmental sounds to harmonise with music from the Thau, Bunun and Atayal peoples of Taiwan. On the relatively brief opening track, she smears her voice over epic synth pads and corrupted bells, while on the lengthy 'Dog Smells Your Future', she shows more of a recognisable connection to Taiwan.
On 'Christal', she juxtaposes droning Taiwanese traditional sounds with pinprick rhythms that sound like cracking ice - as the piece develops, the rhythms become more frenetic and distorted, throbbing into a wall of serrated sound that almost mutates into searing feedback. 'Hermaphrodite' finishes off the album, splicing Sabiwa's voice into chiming syllables and welding it to dissociated electronics and unsteady deep listening drones.
Good stuff, highly recommended for anyone into the Discrepant catalog, or Lieven Martens' Edições Cn label.
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A concréte approach to traditional Taiwanese folk music, flaying field recordings with imaginative electronic processes, laying down a remarkable psychedelic narrative in the process.
Hailing from Taipai and now based in Berlin, Sabiwa released two albums before landing on 'No.16 - Memories of Future Landscapes', a dizzying collection of sculpted field recordings, asymmetric rhythms and unusual vocals. A self-styled audio-visual artist who's written extensively for film and TV, Sabiwa takes Taiwanese folk music as a primary influence, processing her voice alongside awkward environmental sounds to harmonise with music from the Thau, Bunun and Atayal peoples of Taiwan. On the relatively brief opening track, she smears her voice over epic synth pads and corrupted bells, while on the lengthy 'Dog Smells Your Future', she shows more of a recognisable connection to Taiwan.
On 'Christal', she juxtaposes droning Taiwanese traditional sounds with pinprick rhythms that sound like cracking ice - as the piece develops, the rhythms become more frenetic and distorted, throbbing into a wall of serrated sound that almost mutates into searing feedback. 'Hermaphrodite' finishes off the album, splicing Sabiwa's voice into chiming syllables and welding it to dissociated electronics and unsteady deep listening drones.
Good stuff, highly recommended for anyone into the Discrepant catalog, or Lieven Martens' Edições Cn label.
A concréte approach to traditional Taiwanese folk music, flaying field recordings with imaginative electronic processes, laying down a remarkable psychedelic narrative in the process.
Hailing from Taipai and now based in Berlin, Sabiwa released two albums before landing on 'No.16 - Memories of Future Landscapes', a dizzying collection of sculpted field recordings, asymmetric rhythms and unusual vocals. A self-styled audio-visual artist who's written extensively for film and TV, Sabiwa takes Taiwanese folk music as a primary influence, processing her voice alongside awkward environmental sounds to harmonise with music from the Thau, Bunun and Atayal peoples of Taiwan. On the relatively brief opening track, she smears her voice over epic synth pads and corrupted bells, while on the lengthy 'Dog Smells Your Future', she shows more of a recognisable connection to Taiwan.
On 'Christal', she juxtaposes droning Taiwanese traditional sounds with pinprick rhythms that sound like cracking ice - as the piece develops, the rhythms become more frenetic and distorted, throbbing into a wall of serrated sound that almost mutates into searing feedback. 'Hermaphrodite' finishes off the album, splicing Sabiwa's voice into chiming syllables and welding it to dissociated electronics and unsteady deep listening drones.
Good stuff, highly recommended for anyone into the Discrepant catalog, or Lieven Martens' Edições Cn label.
A concréte approach to traditional Taiwanese folk music, flaying field recordings with imaginative electronic processes, laying down a remarkable psychedelic narrative in the process.
Hailing from Taipai and now based in Berlin, Sabiwa released two albums before landing on 'No.16 - Memories of Future Landscapes', a dizzying collection of sculpted field recordings, asymmetric rhythms and unusual vocals. A self-styled audio-visual artist who's written extensively for film and TV, Sabiwa takes Taiwanese folk music as a primary influence, processing her voice alongside awkward environmental sounds to harmonise with music from the Thau, Bunun and Atayal peoples of Taiwan. On the relatively brief opening track, she smears her voice over epic synth pads and corrupted bells, while on the lengthy 'Dog Smells Your Future', she shows more of a recognisable connection to Taiwan.
On 'Christal', she juxtaposes droning Taiwanese traditional sounds with pinprick rhythms that sound like cracking ice - as the piece develops, the rhythms become more frenetic and distorted, throbbing into a wall of serrated sound that almost mutates into searing feedback. 'Hermaphrodite' finishes off the album, splicing Sabiwa's voice into chiming syllables and welding it to dissociated electronics and unsteady deep listening drones.
Good stuff, highly recommended for anyone into the Discrepant catalog, or Lieven Martens' Edições Cn label.
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A concréte approach to traditional Taiwanese folk music, flaying field recordings with imaginative electronic processes, laying down a remarkable psychedelic narrative in the process.
Hailing from Taipai and now based in Berlin, Sabiwa released two albums before landing on 'No.16 - Memories of Future Landscapes', a dizzying collection of sculpted field recordings, asymmetric rhythms and unusual vocals. A self-styled audio-visual artist who's written extensively for film and TV, Sabiwa takes Taiwanese folk music as a primary influence, processing her voice alongside awkward environmental sounds to harmonise with music from the Thau, Bunun and Atayal peoples of Taiwan. On the relatively brief opening track, she smears her voice over epic synth pads and corrupted bells, while on the lengthy 'Dog Smells Your Future', she shows more of a recognisable connection to Taiwan.
On 'Christal', she juxtaposes droning Taiwanese traditional sounds with pinprick rhythms that sound like cracking ice - as the piece develops, the rhythms become more frenetic and distorted, throbbing into a wall of serrated sound that almost mutates into searing feedback. 'Hermaphrodite' finishes off the album, splicing Sabiwa's voice into chiming syllables and welding it to dissociated electronics and unsteady deep listening drones.
Good stuff, highly recommended for anyone into the Discrepant catalog, or Lieven Martens' Edições Cn label.