Lambrate, where the streets have no name

Look at the parking lot.
I share this tape found in front of Lambrate railway station, Milan.
Couldn't recognize exactly what it is, the name on it is probably referred to the cassette printing company: 'Sawt Nassim', if someone knows more please tell me.



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The music inside is probably from Morocco, I love female chorus and party people hearable in the background; I can also recognize the same logo and layout of other tapes from Morocco, so probably that's the origin.

Sound quality is rough, the street has deleted quality… sometimes sounds like Radio series from Sublime Frequencies, with typical volume shifts and interruptions.


Dedicated to Arrighi's orphans, big ups!

Alien abduction

A couple of weeks ago I watched Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010) for the second time. I was, again, literally mesmerized.
The weird thing is that on the way to the cinema, and then back home, I listened to a tape I bought in Morocco in June by the psychedelic moroccan band Lemchaheb… I unexpectedly felt reverberations between Lemchaheb's music and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's images. It's all about imaginaries, look at the cover… Aliens and ghosts populate the film.

Tutuola is all over the place, the catfish scene is emblematic in this sense. I cannot escape afrofuturism signals, fire clothes, alien abductions and displaced memories.
Of course, a subjective trip, but what an explosion!

Follows the whole tape to download.



Lemchaheb - Lemchaheb

Some info on Lemchaheb taken from a wikipedia page on 'Sha'abi', a "style of living, a style of dance, and a style of music. The word is Egyptian Arabic شعبي and refers to the poorer, commoner sections of the city. An English equivalent might be "ghetto.":

"The five-piece Lem Chaheb, has ventured furthest into western idioms, pushing the boundaries of a music scene wary of foreign influences. Guitar and bouzouki ace Lamrani Moulay Cherif, the group's star attraction, plays over traditional percussion, electric bass, horns, voices, and now, inevitably, drum machines."


Here some stills from Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2009), which is streamable here.





And here some others from A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2009), streamable here.




And here a drawing from Cujo Primitive, published by Edizioni Zero, Milan, downloadable here.

Zero live @ Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan

2 DICEMBRE ORE 19 - 23
Y.G.W. (live)
PALM WINE (dj set)


ZERO LIVE AT FONDAZIONE POMODORO via Andrea Solari 35, Milano


Y.G.W. (Lorenzo Senny + Simone Trabucchi - live)
www.prestorecords.com
www.hundebiss.altervista.org
PALM WINE (dj set)
palm-wine.blogspot.com