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Polonius - You Didn't Hear It From Me
Polonius - You Didn't Hear It From Me
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Format: LP
Catalogue No.: SOUK013
Barcode: 5065004291415
Release Date: 18 Apr 2025
Genre: Reggae / Experimental / Collage
Full page feature in Wire Magazine (March 2025, Issue 493) 'the freak audio series continues with the lysergic You Didn't Hear It From Me which combines dubbed out sampledelia and metallic beats with ghostly saxophone soaked in an acid bath'
Polonius AKA Egyptian-French artist Seif Gaber, whose works spans a decade of “science fiction archeomiragical time travel" explorations and is an important piece of the healthy electronic/far out mosaic in Milan.
With a considerable number of releases under his name, both self released and through such likeminded labels as Ikuisuus, Goaty Tapes or Sun Araw's Sun Ark, Polonius grand vision encompasses a myriad of languages culled from kosmische travelings, exotica's dreamlands, soundtrack psychedelia, spiritual jazz escape routes and transmuted beat science to convey them into a sonic fiction where all these trails intertwine in a cosmological soundscape filled with wonder and speculation.
Building on last year's more beat-centric excursions of his self-titled vinyl debut on Stoned to Death, Polonius' first entry into the Discrepant extended family via Souk finds him dwelling deeper into rhythmic mystic extrapolations through a series of hallucinatory tracks. Conveying jungle's kinetic energy, dubwise meditations on bass weight, collapsing beats, globetrotting percussion accents and synth-driven night drives, 'You Didn't Hear It From Me' finds Polonius with a strong sense of purpose and direction, reconvening bits and pieces from the netherworld into a more urban scenario, not quite any we can stand or dance on. Just dream of.
All tracks written and produced by Polonius
Artwork by Giuseppe Salis
Layouts by Polonius
Master by Daniel Baes
LP TRACKLIST:
1. Creases of Desire
2. Incense Puma at the Foot of the Staircase
3.The Pauper
4. Snake Eyes
5. Velvete
6. Mosquito Boat
7. Setanakam Acid
8. Elephant
9. Cold Sweat
10. You Didn’t Hear it From Me
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Pressed in Spain
SOUK013, Discrepant, P+C 2025