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Yao Bobby & Simon Grab Live at Nyege Nyege Festival 2022

Simon Grab + Francesco Giudici ~ [No] Surrender

[No] Surrender is a manifest against social injustice that starts with a visual prelude. This is what dignity looks like. The cover is a portrait of Madame Rochat by artist Aline d’Auria. Madame Rochat worked as a concierge in a building for 40 years. The day she retired, the building´s owners asked her to move from the concierge´s flat. Her response: keep fighting for the rights of the working…

Simon Grab — Posthuman Species — OUS025 — LP

Release: November 8, 2019 Format: vinyl LP + digital Pre-order on Bandcamp

Mythology for the posthuman age.

From «The New Kind» to «Posthuman Wonderland», Simon Grab’s album «Posthuman Species» is a sonic journey through an astonishing land of fragile feedbacks, pulsating drones and opulent outbursts of noise. Recorded on a no-input-mixing setup consisting of low frequency oscillators, filters, analogue effects and a mixer patched with itself, the album sneaks up on dub and leftfield electronica from the side. Over time, the self-oscillating setup falls in and out of tune with itself, emphasising its transient nature. The album is a work of science fiction, telling the story of a time when «The New Kind» shapes its own wonderland. Swiss sound artist and musician Simon Grab explores new grounds by negating assumed borders. In his recent work, he focuses on reduction, and the peculiarity of self-referential systems. The album «Posthuman Species» follows his recent EP «Extinction» on -OUS. His «Diamonds EP» in collaboration with Togolese rapper Yao Bobby and Asian Dub Foundation’s Dhangsha releases on Bristol’s LavaLava Records in September 2019. Simon Grab’s recent works includes «Hirnmusik 1 & 2», in which he dives deep into musical imagery by transferring his sonic ideas directly from his brain to vinyl.

___Tracklist

01     Simon Grab - The New Kind - 3:01 02     Simon Grab - Apocalyptic Paranoia - 1:57 03     Simon Grab - Biomechanoids - 3:12    04     Simon Grab - Neurotransmitters - 4:05 05     Simon Grab - Transformation - 3:11* 06     Simon Grab - New Horizons - 3:17 07     Simon Grab - Observatory - 2:25    08     Simon Grab - Neurochemical Behaviour - 3:25 09     Simon Grab - Phase of Multiplication - 1:55 10     Simon Grab - Altered Sleep - 4:23 11     Simon Grab - Exposure - 2:44 12     Simon Grab - Metanoia - 3:07 13    Simon Grab - Posthuman Wonderland - 15:05*

*digital only

___Release

Release: November 8, 2019 Format: vinyl LP + digital

___Credits

All tracks recorded live through a «no-input-mixing» setup and produced by Simon Grab @ ganzerplatz Studio Mastered by Dan Suter @ echochamber Cut by Adi Flück @ Central Dubs Artwork + Graphic design by Hammer

___Shops

-OUS Bandcamp: https://simongrab.bandcamp.com/album/posthuman-species

Kudos: https://kudosrecords.co.uk/artist/36169/simon-grab

Bleep: https://bleep.com/release/155519-simon-grab-posthuman-species

Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/posthuman-species

Juno: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/simon-grab-posthuman-species/750017-01/

Redeye: https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/114864-ous025lp-simon-grab-posthuman-species

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Traxsource: https://www.traxsource.com/title/1212453/posthuman-species

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4lLXvIof1Cls7dkDCSnMYz?si=6sXav6NSR_23aNHbVDMFcg

Simon Grab is active in a wide range of contexts as musician, composer, producer and sound artist. 

The Zurich-based artist produces music & sound designs for feature films, documentaries, theatre and radio. In his live performances and installations, Simon Grab often uses the venue as an acoustic playground. He likes exploring new grounds by negating assumed borders. His work is rooted in dub and noise, and infused with an everlasting punk attitude.

-OUS works with Simon Grab on his long-term project «PULSE», a music project that focusses on audio feedback and self oscillating systems. «PULSE» live performances are raw, anarchistic and highly unpredictable. The project includes a series of live concerts, an audiovisual collaboration and an album that  will be released on -OUS later this year.

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