ABRACADABRA, by ZOHASTRE

ABRACADABRA

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1.	DUNE 05:50	buy track
2.	TARANTELLA 04:04	buy track
3.	ESPLUMEOR 05:03	buy track
4.	EL TUCO 04:55	buy track
5.	WIZZARDING 05:25	buy track
6.	SPLEEN 06:05	buy track
7.	RONDES ET CHANSONS 03:35	buy track

about

"Danser à l'envers, comme dans le délire des bals musette"

Imagine if you will, a Silver Apples club-cut for Rephlex, or Black Pus jamming with Yamatsuka Eye_

ZOHASTRE is a french-italian duo, whirlwind combination of spacio-tribal drums and bewitched electronics, impro-ritualistic music for trance-like FX and reverse glicht dance moves.

It sounds like you’ve crept up on a long-lost village in the valleys, peering over from behind the trees at night, staring at a huge flaming fire with the villagers in circles, everyone possessed by the incantatory power of the moon and fire (( /\/ *

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"Circumventing all that boring ‘song’ stuff for full-on sensation - ABRACADABRA is an energetic celebration conjured from the head spaces of ZOHASTRE’s Olmo and Héloïse.

Building on the spacey krautrock shivers of their 2018’s Pan and the Master Pipers LP this salivates like a Medievalised motorik quickly nipped into a laser locked sci-fi enthusiastically contracting this insane neu-techno cowbar of a groove. A brightness that’s squeezed into the dagger dance of ‘Tarantella’, it’s folksy core valve smurfed into a repetitive dazzle as that snare sonically snips to be steak-knived by sudden air horn then serotonin seeping a garbled melody. This is ace, it’s energy infectious, the percussively bulleted ‘Esplumeor’, over-driven and driving. I’m hearing imprisoned vocals or clangers, then they suddenly pull an euphorically burnt serenade from out of their sleeves.

Loving all these super-hard beats and surfing electronics, a liberating glow to be drawn into, a percussively shunted space getting messy with the cross pollination, grabbing plenty of esoteric inspiration. This groups feelers are all over the place past / future / fantasy - cauldron boiling a reactive mythology on their own terms. This was what music was like before that ‘talent show copy shop’ banished originality.

The prog-a-tron-like sliver of ‘El Tuco’, name-checking the oafish bandit from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as the tune skin-slips on stapled, fruiting frictions followed on by this sped up highland jig full of braille bumped pins and waspy warp.

I’m thinking Boredoms eclectic, then the loose n lovely Faust inspired motor of ‘Wizzarding’ topples that impression, jibber worms in maggoting sonic scribble, gets me cursing those lazy journo pens we like to herd our sonic experiences into. Truth be told I’m usually into gloomy insecurity with a more than a dash of darkness but I’m finding myself an eager convert to ABRACADABRA’s inventive glare. It’s gun slinging enthusiasm bruising me out of my dirge-loving complacency as that spire quake-caked rasping guitar and slamming bite of ‘Spleen’ apple-cores a sibilant post-rock sunset, that leaves ‘Rondes Et Chansons’ glitchy European folk-scene to woo me to the finish line. A playful pinch of neon paganism rupturing in a spin-washed elasticated whir-ration - What’s not to like."

- Michael Rodham-heaps

credits

released June 12, 2023

Music ▲ Heloise Thibault *electronics* & Olmo Guadagnoli *drums*
Recorded and mixed ▲ Manuel Duval at La Grange Cavale 2021
Post prod & mastering ▲ Camille Jamain at Studio de L'Atelier
Production ▲ Zamzamrec & La République Des Granges
Artwork ▲ Emy & Gaspard *Arrache-toi Un Oeil!*

))) TO THE SPIRITS OF THWDS (((

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Distribution ▲ KURONEKO
Portraits ▲ Julien Bettoli

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EXPERIMENTAL WEIRD MAGIC MUSIC ((( Record label created in 2011 in Bristol (Uk), now based /\ in France. Dreamlike, free electronics, avant-garde explorations published on cassettes and vinyls. Distributed by Kuroneko (EU), The Business (US) and Rwdfwd.
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discography

Dieu Lune et La Grenouille

Apr 2024
Six Crossings

Mar 2024
APOCRYPHA

Feb 2024
ABRACADABRA

Jun 2023
Solstices

Mar 2023
𓇕

Oct 2022
Kaûma

Jul 2022
LP 12" AUTUMN'20

Jun 2022
Collection Particulière

Jun 2022
Ifera

Apr 2022
BOUSTROPHÉDON

Mar 2022
S☉N RISE / S☉N OF THE SUN

Feb 2022
OTIUM_CREATURES

Dec 2021
replicare

Dec 2021
Alarmante

Oct 2021
LA CONSOLATION DES VIOLETTES

Sep 2021
BLISS WAVES (FROM THE HEART REALM)

Jun 2021
Kabukichō

Mar 2021
Hello Sunny

Feb 2021
LULLABIES

Dec 2020
For Joy

Nov 2020
Prepared Rain

Oct 2020
United Color of Black Metal

Jun 2020
fume flamme ce feu me dit-il

Mar 2020
GNOD/ZOHASTRE split

Feb 2020
Corps-pi

Sep 2019
Tendresse, Encore

Jul 2019
LE COURONNEMENT DES SILEX

Apr 2019
Super Barbu

Feb 2019
Dream Of The Sleeping Stones

Nov 2018
The Greedy Raven And The Four Branches

Oct 2018
Pan And The Master Pipers

Apr 2018
Brumas, Nieblas, Neblinas

Mar 2018
ZIM ZUM

Feb 2018
Out / In

Jan 2018
Spacelight Shines Through Us

Oct 2017
New Primitive

Sep 2017
cheesy dreamin'

Jul 2017
Zohastre /\ Nibul

Jun 2017
Monstre_Compilation

Nov 2016
"Sciences et Voyages"

Nov 2016
X

Sep 2016
Vista Kula

Jun 2016
Hverir

May 2016
Quark Star //\\ Etoile Etrange

Apr 2016
MY FATHER MY SUN

Nov 2015
TONE MANTRA

Jun 2015
Oboustranně dvoudílný

Apr 2015
ADVENTURES IN MODERN MUSIC

Mar 2015
Dream Drafts

Dec 2014
JUPITER

Nov 2014
We Are One

Oct 2014
ユーフォー

Sep 2014
Naive I-V

Jul 2014
Astral Voyages

Jun 2014
((*(**////\\\\****

Mar 2014
Mental Transmutation Music

Mar 2014
Andreas Brandal and Urthsla

Feb 2014
SNAKES ON A PLANE

Jan 2014
O.T.A. On The Air

Nov 2013
))) fire is queen (((

Oct 2013
APHELION

Oct 2013
"PHEASANT"

Aug 2013
The upward-downward path

Jun 2013
I WILL ATTACK YOU

May 2013
Plan Z

Apr 2013
Mount Koscuisko

Mar 2013
≶ ≷

Feb 2013
JOY THIEF

Jan 2013
Sonic Birds

Dec 2012
TIM DRAGE

Dec 2012
First Takes

Sep 2012
SUPER RACKET GO ZONE!

Jul 2012
shimmering reflections of the endless myriad moment

Apr 2012
African Witchcraft

Mar 2012
remintonoise

Mar 2012
002

Nov 2011
003

Nov 2011
ZAM ZAM

Oct 2011

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