STELLAR BANGER
STELLAR BANGER This beat noise quartet emerged from a collaboration at the Irtijal Festival for experimental music in Lebanon. Hailing from Beirut, Abed Kobeissy and Ali Hout are tackling Arabic music’s capacity to express urban soundscapes as an intrinsic part of its local aesthetics. The German based musicians trumpeter Pablo Giw and percussionist Joss Turnbull are working with the extensions of their instruments to the full means of sonic-intertwine, instrumental deconstruction and acoustic replay. |
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DATA IS
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Influenced by the absurd realities of a world overridden by COVID-19, far-right politics and bloody popular uprisings, the music might seem chaotic at first; but hidden within a multi-matrix of patterns, rhythms and colors, an elusive yet imposing structure begins to emerge, a pulsating musical bed composed of grainy, poly-layered pink-noise eruptions.
A case in point would be lead track “Data Is,” a bewildering example of musical defragmentation, overlaying sample shreds, stutters and tremolo patterns, unraveling as a sonic reminder of pre-existing musical idioms. The track inexorably builds up and climaxes into a giant cluster of pixels and dots; an audiophiliac prophecy of digitization, set to ghostlike incantations of astronomical objects and cosmic junk data. |
By incorporating digital effects to their instrumental work, Stellar Banger creates pulsating soundscapes of grainy-raw-and-poly-layered-pink-ecstatic-stutter.
After a number of tours and concerts in Köln, Nuremberg, Mannheim, Wuppertal, and Beirut, Stellar Banger will release their first EP "DATA IS" with Ruptured Music in May 2021.
After a number of tours and concerts in Köln, Nuremberg, Mannheim, Wuppertal, and Beirut, Stellar Banger will release their first EP "DATA IS" with Ruptured Music in May 2021.
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Abed Kobeissy (buzuq, effects)
Ali Hout (percussion, effects) Joss Turnbull (percussion, effects, samples) Pablo Giw (trumpet, effects) |