Ardor or Entropy is Nzʉmbe’s first album in nine years, following 2015's Titubeo.
During this period, philosopher and artist Miguel Prado’s sonic output has included synthesizing a sonic Gernika with his band HARRGA alongside Dali de Saint Paul, and crafting a hallucinatory sci-fi mythology for Lucrecia Dalt’s latest album, ¡Ay!."
Rewiring the conventions of chamber electronics and postmodern songwriting.
Here it is presented A Spanish’ song cycle on love and cosmological redshift. The distant echo of Tristan‐and‐Iseult’s smoking gun where lovemaking becomes an enactment of entropy, a transformation between the dynamic and the static, the human and the fetish, illustrating the inevitable decline into chaos and stillness.
A beached singing voice (beautifully processed by Rashad Becker) against electro-acoustic backdrops ranging from the caustic, viscous to the bonecrushingly dense worldbuilding shared by HR Giger, Ballard and Pynchon. Transcendental and psychotic vistas that boldly examine human fragility and the surrounding abyss of godlessness.
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released October 18, 2024
Composed, arranged and recorded by Miguel Prado Casanova
Vocal processing by Rashad Becker
Piano on “Anake and Entropy” by Michael Pisaro
Pipes on “Mirror Of Tauromachy” and “Ergosfera” by Wojciech Rusin
Accordion on “Asymptopia” by Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Trumpet on “Asymptopia” by Ruth Barberán
Electric bass on “Asymptopia” by Dominic Lash
Electric guitar on “Asymptopia” by Daniel Bennett
Percussion on “Asymptopia” by Alex Lázaro
Premixed by Miguel Prado Casanova
Mixed, Mastered and Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker
Artwork photos by Lúa Ribeira © all rights reserved, 2024
Design by Countersubject
This album is dedicated to Patricia
Special thanks to Patricia Fraga, Dali de Saint Paul, Mattin, Lucrecia Dalt, Laith Demashqieh, Lúa Ribeira, Rashad Becker
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