Landform (Wordsound Digital)
by Fujako
"Landform" was born in a small stone house studio in the burnt forests and mountains of Portugal, between paradise and the gate of hell, made from soundscapes and beats recorded on mostly acoustic instruments, created in an hostile -yet natural- environment. After the initial production phase in the woods, "Landform" was then haunted by the voices of several guests such as Sensational, Seraphim, Native, Cheravif and Scalper, as well as by the additional trash turntablism of DJ Urine.
The outcome of this sonic distillation process is a mutant hybrid of found sound objects, hip-hop and dub strategies applied to traditional asian instrumentation, and disembodied voices channeling phantasms from another plane. The isolation and possible "cabin fever" (cf. Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining") caused by being in a lonely house in the wilderness is present throughout the record, in an acknowledgement of the ultimately ungraspable entity of Nature and mankind's uneasy relationship with it.
Press article
FUJAKO ‘LANDFORM’ (WORDSOUND)
Now this is underground. On the subterranean-as-muck WordSound label (past players: fleeting Jungle Brothers member Torture (recording as Sensational), Prince Paul, and members of New Kingdom), it may be approaching the summer season but this dub and echo saturated outing sounds like its two producer protagonists haven’t seen even a fleeting shard of sunlight in years. Warped and twisted beats threaten to mutilate your speakers, distorted and fractured vocals flit in and out of the mix (including a cameo from one-time Fun-Da-Mental man Scalper), and just for misanthropic kicks the whole shebang’s coated in an extra layer of grime and grit a la RZA’s experimental chamber on ‘Sub Crazy9. Challenging, intriguing, and guaranteed to scare the pants off small children.
Tom Nook HHC DIGITAL
