release date: 24.o6.2022
The digital release features three remixes of the tracks off the duo’s new ambient record Xpujil plus a new presentation of the original album
Remix artists include Colombian avant garde musician Lucrecia Dalt, Italian ambient master Donato Dozzy and Honduran/French electronic artist Low Jack
Last year, French/Chilean duo Nova Materia released Xpujil, a unique experimental ambient album which came out as part of Crammed Discs’ Made To Measure composers series.
A single 40-minute immersive piece mixed in binaural, Xpujil (pronounced ex-poo-khil) takes the listener on a sonic journey through an organic and shifting world, and blurs the limits between music, field recording and psychoacoustic trance. The album’s material derived from recordings made during a walking trip in the Mexican jungle. Nova Materia have now asked three eminent artists to create tracks based on the rich material contained in the album featuring:
Donato Dozzy:
The enigmatic Italian master of experimental ambient creates a magical, trippy 18-min excursion into the supernatural world of the Xpujil jungle.
Lucrecia Dalt:
The highly respected Colombian avant garde musician’s affinities with mystery, storytelling, field recordings and poetry is reflected in her lovely, concise take on the piece.
Low Jack:
Mostly known as an electronic music artist, Honduras-born, Frenchman Philippe Hallais has also worked with ethnographic recordings in his Garifuna Variations (commissioned by the Quai Branly Museum). Asking him to rework Xpujil was therefore a natural choice for Nova Materia.
In addition to these three reworks, the Xpujil Revisited digital release includes a new presentation of the original album, in which the original 40-min piece is segmented into four separate parts, thus enabling a different listening experience.
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Release: Nove Materia – XPUJIL – Revisited: LP / CD / DL | 24th June | Crammed Discs | MTM 45.2
Line up:
Caroline Chaspoul
Eduardo Henriquez
guests:
Donato Dozzy
Lucrecia Dalt
Low Jack
Tracks:
1. Xpujil by Donato Dozzy
2. Xpujil by Lucrecia Dalt
3. Xpujil by Low Jack
4. Xpujil – Part I
5. Xpujil – Part II
6. Xpujil – Part III
7. Xpujil – Part IV