GEORGIA / BELLOWS - Decouple ][ Series

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𝕋𝕨𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕤𝕠𝕦𝕝 Oddball electronics experiments - holy shit this is fresh. Favorite track: GEORGIA - Tiwala Sa Buhay [vocals Gabi Asfour].

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GEORGIA / BELLOWS - decouple ][ series - lim. ed. 12" vinyl
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Limited Edition of 300. 140gr. black vinyl in reverse printed folder jacket, pressed at RAND, tranfer by D&M Berlin. Includes 1 extra digital download code.

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1.	GEORGIA - Tiwala Sa Buhay [vocals Gabi Asfour] 06:34	info	buy track
2.	GEORGIA - A Habitual Sway 08:38		buy track
3.	BELLOWS - Untitled 19:12		buy track

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"In software engineering d e c o u p l i n g is generally all about discerning whether or not two components need to closely work together or can be further made independent. Independence is great because it makes those things easy to change or use somewhere else. Usually, you can't remove coupling between components completely. D e c o u p l i n g in that context normally means loosening the existing coupling, making sure each component knows as little as possible about the other components around it”.

The first in a series of split vinyls concerning dependencies, miscommunication and increasing complexity in our media- saturated digital era. Georgia and Bellows inaugurate the decouple ][ series with works between futuristic eclecticism and avant-garde pan-aesthetics, where musical themes flow tangentially. Similar, but without effectively engaging one another. A metaphor for a world of surfaces.
Recorded in Georgia’s Chinatown NYC studio, ‘Tiwala sa buani’ abruptly throw us into freaky percussion clusters constructed from heavily processed sounds which seem to keep in balance just by the magic of repetitions. Justin Tripp and Brian Close’s stylistic fusion acts like an antidote against GPS localization, with sounds and voices more reminiscent of data flowing through a proxy server than an acoustic performance - a myriad of tiny elements resonates with the multi-cultural a-geographic perception of a contemporary metropolis. ‘A Habitual Sway’ (an anagram of the first title) flows more slowly, mixing hypnotic rhythmic percussions loops, melodic sketches and controlled distortions into sophisticated layers. Naïve digital strings pads incursions widen the picture further. Georgia run an NTS monthly residency of oddball electronics.

Digging into their sound archive, Bellows build an immersive Konrad-esque 19 mins of humid and winding electronics with ‘Untitled’. Drawing on years of improvising experience, Nicola Ratti and Giuseppe Ielasi take a puristic avant-garde approach, using tape loops, static, modular synths and field recordings. A subtle nostalgia pervades the whole work - the music sneaks through lush, decadent dystopian visions like in a travelogue. Mallets, statics, cut-up white noise, synthetic kiks and uncannily pitched voices branch out like roots, while digital birds whistle all around in an aquatic atmosphere, perhaps suggesting an ironic take on ‘orientalism’ - down to the river’s delta.

All cover pictures for the decouple ][ series are taken from Alice Bonfanti’s ‘Transparent Things’ [1997] courtesy of the artist.

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released November 9, 2018

'Continually pushing the boundaries of creativity and self-expression, New York duo GEORGIA undeniably counts as one of the boldest, most intriguing outfits around. (B. Gireau - Inverted Audio)

Master Giuseppe Ielasi
Cover-picture Alice Bonfanti
Vinyl transfer D&M, Berlin

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