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1 | Slows O'er | 7:14 |
| 2 | Pond Clack | 2:52 | |
| 3 | It's Worse | 4:02 | |
| 4 | Banishment | 3:08 | |
| 5 | Sling-Shotting | 3:55 |
Following the cancellation of their Central European tour as a duo in June 2020, Shakeeb Abu Hamdan and Sholto Dobie, together and apart, unveil a remote sonic partition between their respective abodes in Lebanon and Lithuania. Letting a melange of new and archival material wind around each other, swell back and forth and coalesce into a nebulous mass, they tease the temporality of real time improvisation, opting instead for a near mythical, ghost-like exchange.
Sholto Dobie - Sholto Dobie was born in Edinburgh and lives in Vilnius. He regularly performs in events, using loose structures, site specific methodologies and an array of sound sources including home-made organs and bagpipes. Over the years, he has explored ideas related to folklore, environment and a sonic phenomenon. He is based in Vilnius where he co-organises the artist run space Studium P and curates a regular event and radio series for local and international experimental music called Progine. He has releases everywhere, with music on labels such as Mappa, All Night Flight, Kashual Plastik, Infant Tree, Takuroku, Penultimate Press and Thanet Tape Centre. A release with GLARC is planned this year (GLARC 0000000000000000000000000YETTOBEDETERMINED)
https://www.instagram.com/sholtodobie/
https://sholtodobie.bandcamp.com/album/23
Shakeeb Abu Hamdan is a musician and visual artist based in Paris. He performs with an unorthodox setup of drums, bells and cymbals which he augments and amplifies with surface transducers, microphones, pitch and rhythmic modulation effects and modified megaphones. His performances are structured but leave space for generative accidents and improvisation in response to the instabilities of feedback manipulation and the unpredictable interactions built into his instrumental system.
He has recently shown work and performed at Beirut Art Centre, Real No Real Festival (Madrid), GMEA (Albi), Fylkingen (Stockholm), Les Instants Chavirés (Paris) and Cafe OTO (London).
