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Tip! Tina Records presents Cargo Cult, six tracks from the Musci archives created using an extensive collection of traditional instruments combined with synthesisers and electronics, with remixes provided by Cut Hands and Nokuit.
Italian ethnomusicologist Roberto Musci, active since the mid 80s, has experienced a resurgence in interest since the 2016 Music From Memory compilation 'Tower of Silence', receiving endorsements from disparate influential figures. His music featured in a playlist Ryuichi Sakamoto curated for his favourite Japanese restaurant in New York, as well as in a 2019 Yung Lean playlist for The Opioid Crisis Lookbook.
Cut Hands is the alias of William Bennett, most well known as the originator of the Power Electronics genre with his project Whitehouse. Inspired by Haitian Vodou, under the Cut Hands moniker, Bennett has been exploring rhythm and percussive instrumentation since 2007 with releases on Blackest Ever Black and Downwards.
A film composer by day, Nokuit has developed a distinctive cosmology over a mutating series of releases on underground labels such as wannamarchi.club and NKT. He has performed internationally, including at Cafe OTO as part of a lineup curated by Flora Yin-Wong.
The cargo cult does not exist per se; rather it appears in the dirty mirror of the European self - a cultic other as a reflection of the imperial self. The dreamer should always advance and attack in the teeth of danger, calling on the dream images of his fellows if necessary. Eroticism is beyond good and evil since it is inevitable ... just imagine living in four rapidly evolving worlds at once. To what degree can an expressionless doll made of wood be filled with the breath of life? …
| A1 | The Age of Fragmentation | ||
| A2 | Bunraku | ||
| A3 | After Dinner | ||
| A4 | Kaiseki | ||
| B1 | Lead Away From Light | ||
| B2 | Broken Orchestra | ||
| B3 | Kaiseki - Cut Hands Remix | ||
| B4 | Broken Orchestra - Nokuit Remix |