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il vile

by umayyad

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1.
lucien sebag 05:38
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fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars let me see
3.
static 07:31
you are your mother's only son and you're a desperate one
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ci sono cretini che hanno visto la madonna e ci sono cretini che non hanno visto la madonna io sono un cretino che la madonna non l'ha vista mai è l'estasi questa paradossale identità demenziale che svuota l'orante del suo soggetto e in cambio lo illude nell'oggettivazione di se' dentro un altro oggetto tutto quanto è diverso, è dio se vuoi stringere sei tu l'amplesso mentre baci, la bocca sei tu divina è l'illusione questo è un santo.
5.
the most gothic description of capital is also the most accurate. capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us. there is a sense in which it simply is the case that the political elite are our servants; the miserable service they provide from us is to launder our libidos, to oblig-ingly re-present for us our disavowed desires as if they had nothing to do with us.
6.
this is freedom? as long as i don't think of anything?

about

memory loss and how the world ended in the 1990s
this entire album was made to explore memory loss through tape music.
i enjoy creating familiar patterns by mixing different sources, simulating new memories.


anything that feels authentic, musical, discernible and familiar is sampled, broken into pieces,re recorded through a snare drum using contact microphones, torn apart with scissors and mounted on old cassettes. anything that feels unsettling, annoying, strange, eerie and boring is played by me, using wooden boards, the clicking of the dictaphone, beads on a snare drum rim, spring tank shaking and a jazzmaster.


there are numerous artifacts, mistakes, imprecisions, some ugliness and sometimes beauty. the reason for this choice is that the album is about memories and memory loss, which are never perfect and made uglier or happier by time. i hope you can listen to the two voices in this album: what is non authentic but feels authentic and what is authentic but feels non authentic and out of place.

i hope you will feel lost and i hope you will remember something new after this.

the entire album was recorded using a koma field kit, a koma field kit fx, a tascam 414 mk2, a dictaphone and a ac noises ama reverb pedal.

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released September 29, 2020

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umayyad Verona, Italy

i am umayyad. i make tape loops for our shared synthetic memories.

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