Tracklist for Dissonant #20 (08/01/2024).
Dissonant goes live every first wednesday of the month at 8PM CET via Radio Vacarme.

Marta De Pascalis – Cut Off Horizon
Sky Flesh (light-years, 2023)
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Lau Nau – Hyperiidea
5 x 4 (beaconsound, 2023)
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Dax Pierson – I Slay The Pain
Nerve Bumps (A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction) (Dark Entries, 2021)
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Leila Bordreuil – Drowning Towers
IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE (radio.syg.ma, 2023)
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Mariam Rezaei – GLASS BASTARD (ft. Teresa Winter & Bobby Glew)
BOWN (Heat Crimes, 2023)
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Astrit Ismaili – Miss Kosovo (ft. Mykki Blanco)
The First Flower (The Performance Agency, 2024)
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Lady Blacktronika – Hold My Hand (Octo Octa’s Sapphic Trails In Bloom Mix)
Trablonika Daly (Gudu Records, 2023)
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Peggy Gou – Six O Six
20 Years Of Phonica (Phonica Records, 2023)
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Hannah Holland – People Power
Family Drama Vol. 1 (Super Drama, 2020)
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Maelstrom & Louisahhh – I’m a Whip (ft. Brodinski)
May the Rage Burn a Path for Joy (RAAR, 2024)
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Le Tigre – Dyke March 2001
Feminist Sweepstakes (Mr. Lady, 2001)
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M I M I – Cloud 9
Maloca, Vol. 2 (Maloca Records, 2023)
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Polygonia – iunua
GLYPHS : WOOD (QEONE, 2023)
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A.Fruit – Nostalgia
Hyperboloid 2024 (Hyperboloid Music, 2023)
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Clara! – Brillo
Pulso (AD 93, 2023)
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Ma Sha – Are They Back
PRIMARY FOREST 01 (C.E.E., 2023)
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Nídia – 95
95 MINDJERES (Príncipe, 2023)
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SHHE – Eyes Shut
SHHE (One Little Indian, 2019)
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NÂR – Baba Mimoun
Elsewhere VXIII (Rocket Recordings, 2022)
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Annelies Monseré – Shells
Mares (Horn Of Plenty, 2023)
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Youmna Saba – Tareeq طريق
Wishah و​ِ​ش​ا​ح (Ruptured Records – Touch, 2023)
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cerpintxt – Volunteer To Have Your Spine Removed
IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE (radio.syg.ma, 2023)
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Lea Bertucci – Of Shadow and Substance (ft. Henry Fraser, Lucia Stavros, Matthew Evans & Lester St. Louis) (excerpt)
Of Shadow and Substance (Cibachrome Editions, 2023)

Marta De Pascalis – Sky Flesh (light-years, 2023)

Marta De Pascalis releasing her latest record ‘Sky Flesh’ on compatriot Caterina Barbieri‘s label is no surprise. As soon as the first notes resound, you are bathed in that same arpeggio lushness. Like Barbieri, De Pascalis also limits her instrumentation to one item this time, the Yamaha CS-60. A leaden, analogue synthesiser from 1977 that, in its limitation, feels like an acoustic instrument. Barely programmable, worthless presets and anything but heat-resistant. An instrument that challenges the user, and De Pascalis was only too happy to feel those beads of sweat trickling down. It leads to mostly short songs where a baroque abundance defines the melodies. In the first three, headed by opening track ‘voXCS60x’, she reveals the reverberating and oscillating malleability of that Yamaha CS-60. After which, on the dreamy ‘Yueqin’, she seems to master the machine in a different way. Exploring and playing exchanged for a wistful composition in which she exposes the soul of the machine. Technology versus the maker. Technology versus emotion. She continues on that momentum with ‘Glider’ and ‘Harmonices Infinity’. To search again for delirium with ‘Commas Light’ and ‘Cut Off Horizon’ between the exuberance of the musical tones she extracts from her machine and the minimalism you’d suspect from De Pascalis. ‘Sky Flesh’ is an album that demands constant attention in all its oscillating generosity. Intrusive but rewarding. And for that, some of the responsibility also lies with closing duo ‘Làsciati’ and ‘Equal To No Weight At All’. The experimentation and zeal has died down. The sweat gushes off the machine. The upbeat meandering melodies of before are tempered by a harmonic calm. The Pascalis is working towards an end. As refreshing as that first rain shower after an intense heat.