BILLY BAO "LAGOS SESSIONS"
video:
http://youtu.be/zG7qWmdoVpY
Munster Records is extremely proud to work with Billy Bao and Night School Records to present "Lagos Sessions".
Munster Records is releasing the 2LP edition and Night School Records the CD edition.
http://munster-records.com/en/label/munster/product/lagos-sessions
http://nightschoolrecords.com/
Featuring: Billy Bao, Ambido, Diana Bada, Duro Ikujenyo, Mark Ido, Oduyomi Isaiah Oluseye, Joel Isioma Okoh, Orlando Julius, Mendo and Emeka Ogboh.
Basque-based group Billy Bao travelled to the former Nigerian capital to record a four part ode to the city. These are sound collages, taking snippets of work from local sound artist Emeka Ogboh, former Fela sidesman Duro Ikujenyo and Afro jazz saxophonist Orlando Julius, and melding them coarsely with an ambient / electronic backing.
"Experimental; Conceptual? That's what these sort of things are usually called, when references are anything but immediate: in the feeling, hearing, and seeing, especially by many. Even more troubling, when the accustomed in us gets ajar... We lack articulation of the seemingly unfamiliar! Even at that, I think the most charitable review of this live electronic exploration will suggest the four sections bordering on insanity.
How else? Even when not a few self-styled patriots were booking their flights out of the country, with an election looming to signal the end of a nation, and a band of modern day faith-heads detonating grenades in every other street corner, two dreamers swim against the currents and sneak through the lagoon into the country collecting inputs of derelict art; of garbage can noise; of hooting; honking horns on screeching brakes squelching tar; rackety generator booms? For an imagined program! What's that? Who, what do these doods think they're doing with Lagos?! I'll call it rebirth. That simple.
How to find a centre here? The output? The hum-drum of the street's daily accent compels the sense of the immediate, the terrestrial; and then those primitive, primeval-seeming echoes of the earliest beginnings of the big bang and its wavesound simultaneously releasing Sun Ra's reverb sensation of end time! This should not be danceable but these guys are suggesting the possibility of rhythm in the inchoate. Believe me, you can't miss the Lagos Faaji, Sakara flow, Awurebe, Afrobeat slices; its jazz, highlife/Euro-Afro funk/rock/rap and seedy night echoes too. But in their otherworldly dimension. No matter the accolades, I will encourage a therapy of some sorts to the creators of this production."
Sola Olorunyomi, poet, bassist, co-editor of Glendora Review
Kunle Tejuoso, Jazzhole, Lagos
BILLY BAO "COMMUNISATION" co-released Fuck Yoga and Insulin Adicted (Skopje)
Billy Bao with Taku Unami, Alberto López Martín, Xabier Erkizia, Mattin, Mikel Xedh, Elena Aitzkoa, Bimbab, Ainara LeGardon, Loty Negarti, Iñigo Telletxea, Iker Albisu, Mikel R. Nieto...
LISTEN:
http://fuckyogarecords.bandcamp.com/album/communisation
https://www.facebook.com/Insulin-Addicted-records-246561032063665/
This is literally a fucked up record. Here you have all the classics traces of a Billy Bao record (freaky punk, digital fuckery, conceptual disturbances, anger and desperation) but pushed so far to the point that it generates physical destruction: at the end of side A there is a digital sonification of the economic flash crash that was provoked by high frequency trading on the stock market in 2010. Its negativity has been inscribed into the actual situation of making this record as this sonic transcription burned the head of the cutter while the lacquer was being cut. Who knows? Perhaps this is Billy Bao's way to improvise with the means of production! If on side B you can hear the results of cutting this record with a fucked head (the weird high pitch, for example), there is also the sound of a music emanating from a group of people who will not let market forces dictate their future,including the great Tokyo based musician Taku Unami imagining the sound of self-abolition. Out of the ruins of destroyed rock, some other kind of irreputable music emerges in order to roughen the surface of a contested present.
BILLY BAO WILL BE PLAYING ON THE
19 OF DECEMBER AT ZARATA FEST IN BILBAO
http://www.xedh.org/zaratafest/
AND COUNTER FLOWS FESTIVAL IN APRIL IN GLASGOW
http://counterflows.com/