Praed is the duo of Swiss musician Paed
Conca and Lebanese
artist/musician
Raed
Yassin.
With
three
releases
to
date
and six years of musical and artistic
collaboration, the duo
experiments with a complex and vast terrain of
sonic/musical influences
and geographies. Through a critical examination
of the relationship
between music and collective memory, Conca and Yassin
fabricate a
soundscape composed of dislocated audio fragments: vocal samples
stripped of their corresponding bodies, sounds freed of their images,
musical
abstractions here and there… Their third CD sounds like a
neo-noir soundtrack
set somewhere between Cairo and Tokyo. Punches,
screams, and bits and pieces
of conversations clash with booming
stretches of clarinet and double-bass rumbles.
Heavily invested in
drawing out the potentialities of sampling, the duo’s recordings
are
often offshoots of live performances in which radio transmissions, film
soundtracks, and vinyl create a synthetic musical tension filled with
whimsical
loops and melancholy tones.
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ME BABY
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