exostrata, by I.C.G.

exostrata

by I.C.G.

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1.	Brachyura 02:38	buy track
2.	Prompters 03:36	buy track
3.	Aviccenia 03:51	buy track
4.	Aparelhamento Perpétuo 04:58	buy track
5.	Alioth 04:39	buy track
6.	Padrões Espaciais 03:46	buy track
7.	Petrified City 03:27	buy track
8.	Fosseis Digitais 04:16	buy track
9.	stt (I.C.G and TZUHAN) 04:44	buy track
10.	Recursadia 06:14	buy track

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exostrata is the new album from Brazilian producer I.C.G. It is a dense topology of abstract textures, organic tones, field recording detritus, decomposed samples, and manipulated soundbites. exostrata plunges through cumulative layers of diverse material; through petrified matter and sonic ruin to emerge with creeping cuts of darkside jungle and percussive meditations on the vibrant materialism of rejectamenta. The sound of exostrata is that of a heavy ambience; a sonic xenoarcheology dredging thick tangles of breakbeats and digital fossil musique concrète from the alienated core of the built world.

The tracks and the accompanying videos conjure humid and swamp-like alien environments: the speculative landscapes and post-natural ecologies that constitute a swelling trash continuum which now supersedes our lumpen biomass. While arts and music discourses abound with ambitions of ‘world-building’, exostrata acknowledges and explores the extant and incommensurable nonhuman lifeworlds emerging from organic putrefaction and digital decay. exostrata embodies the dark vitality that haunts entropy; the architecture of decay. By manipulating and processing soundbites until they saturate their own materiality I.C.G. imposes an interruption upon symbolic order - audio samples are extricated from any pretension of ‘original' context to be re-rendered among an uncanny landscape of desolate horizons.

exostrata is the 2nd release on the Most Dismal Swamp label.

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released January 21, 2021

Music, visuals and mastering by I.C.G

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Most Dismal Swamp is a model for curating, collaborating and convivial speculation; a modular and miasmic crew. Operating at multiple scales and registers, Most Dismal Swamp is an art project, a curatorial MMORPG, a fiction, a party, a mixed-reality biome and an independent record label.

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