BZDB - JUMP SHIP, SIT LEAN, BE STILL, STAND TALL

AD 93

£24.30

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: WHYT81LP
Barcode: 4062548101072
Release Date: 29 Nov 2024
Genre: Dance/Electronic/Classical

Jump Ship, Sit Lean, Be Still, Stand Tall is a collaborative LP from BZDB, comprised of Duncan Bellamy and Belinda Zhawi (MA.MOYO), that will be released via AD 93 on the 22nd November 2024. The record is a collection of sonic poetry setting Zhawi’s illuminating, elliptical words in dialogue with diffuse, explorative music and sound by Bellamy. Together they render these disparate forms into something distinct, melancholic and luminous, fluctuating between expansive contemporary classical arrangements and intimate layered vocal experiments. Listen to their first single titled Dancesing, which will be released alongside the announcement of the record on the 9th of October.

Belinda Zhawi (b. Zimbabwe) is a literary & sound artist based in London & Marseille, author of Small Inheritances (ignitionpress, 2018), & experiments with sound/text performance as MA.MOYO. Her work explores African diaspora research and narratives, and how art and education can be used as intersectional tools. Her literary and sound works have been featured on various platforms including The White Review, Vogue, NTS, Boiler Room & BBC Radio. She’s held residencies with Triangle- Asterides, France; Cove Park, Scotland; Serpentine Galleries; ICA London and was a Brixton House Associate Artist 2022 - 24. Belinda’s the co-founder of literary arts platform, BORN::FREE. Zhawi is working on her first full poetry collection.

Duncan Bellamy (b. Cambridge, UK) lives and works in London. Encompassing painting, photography, sound and music, his diverse practice explores the correlation and discrepancy of our present with the distant past. He is a founding member of Mercury Prize nominated Portico Quartet and has contributed sound work to the artist Hannah Collins audio-visual installation I Will Make Up A Song as well as to Hania Rani’s latest album Ghosts. Bellamy is working towards a solo exhibition and an album of new music.

TRACKLIST:
A1. DANCESING
A2. STOCKWELL
A3. JUMP SHIP
A4. SHIELD
A5. WATER
B1. TOMB
B2. DREAM SEQUENCE
B3. LA RECHERCHE
B4. HOLES
B5. YOUR ABSENCE