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The new School of the Arts, which was newly launched by the organizer of Russia Full of Nothing, has moved to Spain and has arrived for the first time in Japan.

This work is a cassette released by Indonesian duo Senyawa in February 2021.Includes 2 metalfolk songs that give you an exotic feel.DL code included.

Description by School of the Arts:

"The new album by critically acclaimed Indonesian duo Senyawa is being co-released by 44 different labels worldwide, and School of the Arts presents a Russian version on cassette. It features the full album as well as two extended remixes: Moa Pillar's 14-minute heavenly ambient and a 24-minute poisonous drone collage by Ivan Zoloto.

Senyawa's music combines extended vocal techniques of Rully Shabara and homemade instruments built and played by Wukir Suryadi. It exists on the outer edges of primitivism, post-industrial, improv, doom, heavy psych, and drone.

Having a dozen releases under their belt, most notably “Sujud” on Sublime Frequencies and “Menjadi” on Morphine Records, as well as multiple international shows and festival appearances, the band has proven that Indonesian music can be so much more than gamelan exoticism. Shabara approaches Suryadi's simple folk-like melodies and propulsive noises with a hardcore punk attitude, and the two don't shy away when things go abstract and meditative. pressure.

Side B is dedicated to remixes of the original material. The in-house SOTA remix team consisted of the label's mastering engineer Moa Pillar who reshaped “Kiamat” into his own brand of angelic drone, menacing and blissful at the same time, and boss and curator Ivan Zoloto, whose long remix is a sea of wails and rumbling noises extracted out of “Istana”.

Overall, the release is recommended to anyone who likes: Sun City Girls and any Bishop brothers' projects, Phurpa, Ghédalia Tazartès, Keiji Haino, Tony Conrad, Stephen O'Malley, etc. "

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The New York Times:

"Tumultuous mix of heavy-metal aggression and free-jazz bedlam ”

The Quietus:

“A destructive, scattered, and dramatic record”

The Wire:

"A symphony of pulverising riffs and guttural roars that sound as if they've hatched straight from the fires and slimes of Middle Earth. ”

Artist: Senyawa

Label: School of the Arts

The new School of the Arts, which was newly launched by the organizer of Russia Full of Nothing, has moved to Spain and has arrived for the first time in Japan.

This work is a cassette released by Indonesian duo Senyawa in February 2021.Includes 2 metalfolk songs that give you an exotic feel.DL code included.

Description by School of the Arts:

-----------

The New York Times:

"Tumultuous mix of heavy-metal aggression and free-jazz bedlam ”

The Quietus:

“A destructive, scattered, and dramatic record”

The Wire:

"A symphony of pulverising riffs and guttural roars that sound as if they've hatched straight from the fires and slimes of Middle Earth. ”

Artist: Senyawa

Label: School of the Arts

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Recommended if you like: dark drone and ambient, experimental electronics, raw minimalism, noise, and free-floating strings.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJust like Zoloto’s previous release, “Ghosting” on the Russian CANT label, “Pleasure Prison” is deeply immersed in psychogeography: before relocating to Spain just before the pandemic the artist has been constantly on the move. The new long-play has been composed and recorded in Russia and China but finalized in Barcelona. It’s important to note that there are no field recordings, but some of the compositions have been recorded live and later reassembled in the studio.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe title track is a 35-minute-long composition for laptop, live electronics, and an improvising violinist. It was recorded with Russian-Finnish multi-instrumentalist Sasha Kretova in Petergof, with Zoloto performing in his favorite mode: as a dub engineer, with a laptop, a mixing desk, and some Soviet and handmade effects. It fuses his two main passions together: the raw and improvised side of drone music (think Vibracathedral Orchestra) and heavily processed\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e electronics moving at a glacial pace with distant bass explosions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracks “Problem no. 1” and “The Door Is Open” document Zoloto exploring another side of his heritage: here he’s playing jouhikko, a Karelian-Finnish bowed lyre, in a very aggressive and rude manner. He then treats it via half-broken tape recorders, conjuring some funeral noise-folk dirges.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe “Voice Message”\/”Elevator Scene” suite starts off with LSS (also known as L.I.E.S.-affiliated artist 51717) whispering “pleasure prison” in a Facebook voice message and follows that with almost-techno-sounding hi-hats, ice-cold chords, and crude electronic loops performed live in Shanghai through assorted guitar amps. The result has been described by one listener as “Tim Hecker meets Hijokaidan”.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Ivan Zoloto\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : School of the Arts\u003c\/p\u003e"}