NEW RELEASE. Ya Tosiba, LOVE PARTY

Publicat in: 18.06.2017, 23:32PM
Autor: Richard Constantinidi
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Etichete: Asphalt Tango Records, Love Party, Ya Tosiba, Zuzu Zakaria

YA TOSIBA
album "Love Party"
out 9 June 2017
(vinyl LP & digital)

Ya Tosiba is a young electronic music duo by Norwegian-Azerbaijani Zuzu Zakaria and Finnish skweee pioneer Tatu Metsätähti aka Mesak, that mixes old street poetry traditions from Azerbaijan with underground electronic beats. Their sound is inspired by classical Arabic and Persian music, Scandinavian electronic traditions and hip hop - a raw blend of analogue synthesizers, DIY elements and unpolished sounds, heavy electronic beats mixed with traditional instruments and rounded off by Zuzu's hypnotic voice. The lyrics of Ya Tosiba's first longplayer

YA TOSIBA
music video "N qədər"
shot, edited & directed by
Klinkowski Frères

"Love Party" are drawn from texts originating in the genre known as meykhana, an ancient local tradition and part of the wedding culture in and around Baku where meykhana acts are booked for festive audiences consisting exclusively of men. The texts chosen for "Love Party" attempt to describe resistance - no matter whether it is part of an imperialist past, of low and high local statuses or current stereotypes. Ya Tosiba combined these texts with slightly more Western-style musical compositions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLX0hAXlLdg