Semantic Radiation

by Zebularin

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1.	Jubelperser 10:15	buy track
2.	Bapho 04:22	buy track
3.	Supplikant 03:19	buy track
4.	Orka 02:19	buy track
5.	Vaccimal 02:11	buy track
6.	Flores 06:40	buy track
7.	Voespiek 12:23	buy track

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In a way, the bizarre shape and texture distortions featured on the cover of Zebularin’s new tape Semantic Radiation are not just appropriately subversive visuals that correspond to equally subversive music, but also a statement about the band itself. A fragment of the back of someone’s head cut to resemble the head of some draconian acolyte (Kobolds, anyone?), a dark photograph of someone curled up in bed that has been mounted in such a way that its own spatial logic no longer makes any sense, the sky of a landscape panorama unravels and twists impossibly toward something even higher—it all reeks of the same approach the Stuttgart collective takes to produce their music: stretching, cutting, and dissecting the conventional in favor of the new and unpredictable, stuffing large clumps of strangeness where they most certainly do not fit. It’s as if the listener is shown the tangled mass fibrous wires that hold together the group’s most “normal” instrumental elements (drum kit, woodwinds, Rhodes), allowed to witness the surges of sonic electricity as they move throughout the network in the form of line-in electronics, industrial clatter, and other scientific tabletop conjurations from Yoshihiro Kikuchi and bandleader/composer Daniel Vujanic. “Supplikant” and “Vaccimal” focus almost entirely on these in-between sounds, unfurling into beautiful, buzzing storms of electricity and emotional catharsis, while longer tracks like “Jubelperser” and “Flores” drag the lens much further back, capturing spacious, diverse, room-filling interactions that echo the best of early improvisatory units (even though Zebularin’s material is not improvised). Perhaps the titular concept is literal, and these volatile, enigmatic pieces are the toxic residue left behind when one spends too much time thinking about what music means. No idea why anyone would want to do that in the first place, though… some nerd shit for sure. (Jack Dawson)

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released January 29, 2021

limited edition tape out on Cruel Nature Recordings (Cat.Nr.:CN155)

“Semantic Radiation“ was performed and arranged by Zebularin:
Daniel Kartmann: drumkit + percussion + vibraphone
Peter Bone: piano + rhodes piano
Yoshihiro Kikuchi: electronics
Ekkehard Roessle: woodwinds
Heiner Stilz: woodwinds
Daniel Vujanic: electric guitars + electronics + synthesizers + found sounds + audio manipulation
musical direction by Daniel Vujanic

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