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Birmania

by Zpell Hologos

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    This album, "Birmania", has 6 (six) tracks, and 1 (one) 11 mins bonus track exclusive for Bandcamp buyers. Bonus track originates from the very same process from which this album come and in which has been built.
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Cocokyoun 10:03
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Sumprabum 08:35
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Pyapoon 10:57
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Xingoon 03:38
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Huni Kuyn 12:48

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More about Zpell Hologos: Zpell Hologos is Babe, Terror, and Babe, Terror is Claudio Szynkier. Ultradegenerate hyperorquestracionist ecoabstractèur grottosearcher jew from the transtropical new world.

Some coverage the album is receiving

www.latempestad.mx/silencio-selectivo-musica-ambient/ [La Tempestad]
www.onthefringesofsound.com/post/rounding-the-fringes-october-18 [On The Fridges Of Sound]
www.radioaktiv.it/zpell-hologos-birmania/ [Radio Aktiv]
brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12819:zpell-hologos-qbirmaniaq&catid=50:sound-bytes&Itemid=140 [on the Great Brainwashed]
www.bedroomdisco.de/2021/10/zpell-hologos-birmania/ [Bedroom Disco]
i.imgur.com/j9db931.png [Bandcamp New And Notable]
petalmotel.com/music-to-breathe-to/ [Petal Motel]
www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/obladada-soniko-07th-january-2022/?fbclid=IwAR3ApajjLE_WGdOR-UmnKEFnCinR65bCTIPY288W3xkeYXMy6D5tHnawmes [Obladada]
ruc.pt/podcast/dissolucoes/dissolucoes-68-27-02-2022 [Coimbra University Radio - Dissoluções]

"Birmania" is the debut album of the Brazilian musical project Zpell Hologos, and is scheduled for worldwide release on October 4th.

The album was conceived throughout 2021, an unforgettable year for Brazilians: the country became the world epicenter of the Covid19 pandemic, and its soul became disputed every day, in all spaces. The authoritarian militias, with a national project that seeks to de-democratize and implode the modern constitution ratified in 1988 ("The Citizens Book"), are approaching a final offensive, while the minority resistance takes to the streets for vocal and symbolic confrontation.

Amidst this climate, including lockdowns never very effective and arson attacks on the forests, the film "The Princess of Rangoon" emerged, a mysterious narrative journey through distant times and countries. The film is also a music album, "Birmania", and both stand as a sentimental return to the past. Not to the past of a country without laws and colonized by explorers (the Brazil of the 1600s so obsessively imagined and idealized by oligarchs, deforesters and landowners who captured since 2016 a big part of the nation), but to a land of technological and naturalistic dreams, a place colonized by a phantom nostalgia, inhabited by magical fauna and flora.

"In terms of music, it's a writting proposal with muffled, sketched synths, orchestras and pianos, but with a tender, warm and radiant feeling too. It is, I think, evocative of animals-- elements of great strength and inspiration. It's a kind of a hunt in search of a lost civilization, which is also a civilization of the future, which takes place with the help of these mystical and somehow redemptive forms of fauna, and with their correspondent musical ambiences. From that, came a film and an album", says Claudio Szynkier, author of both the "Birmania" album and the film "The Princess of Rangoon" (to be released later in 2023). "Birmania" comes with 6 videos whose image source is Szynkier's own film. "I have a chronic ear problem, which had a phase of stability, and then I decided to take the opportunity to dive into music again, but with a different outfit."

Zpell Hologos is the new incarnation of this adored Brazilian artist, Claudio Szynkier. Szynkier has a history as Babe, Terror that reached its peak in 2020, with the album "Horigozon", a milestone in experimental music of that year. Pitchfork and Guardian, which chose "Horizogon" as one of the best global albums of the year, were some of the vehicles to recognize the depth of Szynkier's work. Links: www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/23/the-10-best-global-albums-of-2020
pitchfork.com/features/overtones/climate-change-music/
babeterror.bandcamp.com/album/horizogon-2020

"We are at the end of something and the beginning of something else. There are the militias gaining power, making Covid19 to be permanent, and there are voices coming from the streets and from the forests, indians. It is a moment of anguish, torment and expectation. And I think that the new form of the world and of what is called Brazil is always where we haven't looked properly yet. There is a kind of a portal that connects the Brazilian rainforest and the Atlantic forest to the equatorial south of the Central African Republic, Gabon, and also to Southeast Asia, Polynesia, Myanmar, Thailand. They are all phisically similar. I kind of discovered this portal, this crack, this old door with open cracks for third-world transnational adventures. And I made the music of this thing, this meeting avenue, this bond.

No accident Brazil and Myanmar, for example, go through the same historical moment: far right sinister militia, a return to feudalism versus democratic constitution, versus openness to the libertarian journeys propitiated by art. From the idea of that portal came this album "Birmania", the film "The Princess of Rangoon" as well, the videos that are nothing but fragments of the film too. And this work when you put together is, like "Horizogon", which I made as Babe, Terror, a proposal for a redeeming and as-yet-unthought-out future", reveals the utopian Szynkier.

"Birmania" comes out worldwidely on Zpell Hologos Bandcamp.

(piece written in June 2021).

Joana Santos

journalist, PR manager and consultant for brazilian art projects
astronautaafricana@gmail.com

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released October 4, 2021

Claudio Szynkier (as Zpell Hologos): all instruments, sampler, voice, composition, production, moon melter machine
Thank you socialist God for helping me so nice. All the way and impossibily.

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Zpell Hologos São Paulo, Brazil

Zpell Hologos is Claudio Szynkier, who is also Babe, Terror, musical project born in 2008. Fourth global album of the year ("Horizogon") according to The Guardian in 2020. Best electronic albums of the year ("Fadechase Marathon") in 2018 according to Bandcamp.
zpellhologos@gmail.com

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