Estrangeiro

Running Time: 5:32

Released On: "Noise Around The World 09" - Various Artists (31 tracks)

Label: Plataforma Recs

Release Date: 16th March 2023

Format: Download

Buy Link: Bandcamp

A second outing on the Brazilian label for A Bala Mágica (that's us in Portuguese), and great to have a track on their Noise Around The World series. Skit always gets excited when he knows it's going to be a noise project. That and when Sam buys him a sherbet dib-dab. But I digress. So, he goes running around the house straight away, desperately looking for any sound producing item we've never used on a track before, comes back excitedly clutching Sam's electric toothbrush. It's okay, she wasn't using it at the time.

"Uh uh," I shook my head, "we used that on It Is For Sleeps And Dreams."

"Fuck you," he replied, "Skit have different idea. No *bang bang. Textured and motioned drone. We use stereoscape. Spooky spooky." (*This is what Skit calls drums, bless him...)

I know better than to argue in these situations, so I nodded and got set up to cut some samples. We normally like to imagine a sound work as a journey, that's why our pieces often peak in the middle, but Skit was a man inspired for this one, explained that he had this idea on using cross-phasing in a way we hadn't previously. It's not bad, is it? We both decided the end result sounded quite otherworldly and dark, so what to call it?

Electric toothbrush >>> initials are ET >>> ET = alien >>> which in Portuguese is... da da!

CARK & CARL