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Unknown City

by SabaSaba

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Fabio Viola Damn is this wonderful! Like the soundtrack to an imaginary noir film set on the night before the end of civilization. Favorite track: Night Plotters.
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Collapse 01:15
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Desert Cathedral 04:58
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False Speech 05:39
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Night Plotters 03:14
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Beszel 05:48
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Guarantee Safety In Our Cities 06:03
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Ul Qoma 06:06
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Wrists Free (feat. Jerome) 05:14
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Catatonia 05:17
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Creeping through an imaginary border, sidesteppin’ through the night like cyber phantoms eavesdropping on early morning machinery shifts, an industrial solstice for pagan mystics. After five years Torino’s mysterious SabaSaba are back with ‘Unknown City’ an imaginary soundtrack for a dystopian city: digital raga, horror Exotica, half-speed techno, metallic dub and organic electronics.

The duo of Andrea Marini (synth, guitar, electronics, tapes) and Gabriele Maggiorotto (drums, percussion, effects, programming) return with their most political manifesto yet, an intricate musical essay inspired by China Miéville’s novel ‘The City And The City’, examining border control, repression, an unknown city where people move like ghosts without personality and without communicating, monitored on sight by the authorities. SabaSaba’s personal OST is a whirlwind of analog and digital instruments colliding, textured samples, syncopated drums and spiritual synth sweeps often heightened by Ambra Chiara Michelangeli’s eerie viola playing, an ancestral force resisting under a cement tower, modulars gasping for air, endlessly reverberating into noir-soul and gray landscapes.

Like Miéville’s two imaginary cities Ul Qoma e Besźel, SabaSaba’s journey is cavernous, claustrophobic at times, but a clear sense of evasion and resistance breaks through, small flickers of light, like a cyborg calibrating himself - the hypnotic dub ambient of ‘False Speech’ - for an ecstatic liberation - the trance inducing ‘Wrists Free’ featuring UK industrial techno duo Jerome. ‘Ul Qoma’ unites Boards of Canada’s emotional detune, with On-U Sound’s terrestrial ground force, ‘Night Plotters’ kosmische elevation is chained to the ground, while ‘Guarantee Safety In The Cities’ fluctuates like a nightrider, eyes shifting left and right, a somber procession descending into grace and paranoia ; ‘Catatonia’ is a message of hope, off-kilter beats carrying solitude on an unknown path.
‘Unknown City’ is an album for dark isolationists but also for people trying to connect, striving for freedom, be it primordial, celestial or written in dust.

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released February 9, 2024

SabaSaba’s ‘Unknown City’ is released on LP/Digital by Maple Death. Music and production Andrea Marini e Gabriele Maggiorotto. Additional production Nick Foglia. Recorded by Paul Beauchamp. Mixed by Nick Foglia. Viola on track 2 - 3 - 6 - 7 -9 by Ambra Chiara Michelangeli. Voice on track 3 by Jonathan Clancy. Voice on track 4 by Emily Leon and Francesca Marongiu. Photos by Sophie - Anne Herin. Mastered by Brian Pyle. Artwork by Legno.

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