Aired on 29.03.26, 12:00pm
Quite a journey today, through genres, countries & continents, emotions and BPMs. This is how we do it in the house of Utility Fog.
Tonight at the top of the show I featured tracks from two big compilations of incredible Lebanese experimental music released by Tunefork Studios on Bandcamp to raise money for the millions of people displaced by Israel's invasion & now occupation of southern Lebanon. Land 01 came out in 2024, and now Land 02 and Land 03 have come out simultaneously. They're jam-packed with amazing music. There's a discount for getting all three, and it will go directly to supporting people in immediate need.
Antoine Ferris – shame’s coming ft. natacha kanga [Carton Records/Bandcamp]
I have the honour of having “discovered” French bassist Antoine Ferris before he was cool – where cool = released by the might Carton Records (that’s really cool!) A friend alerted me to the soundtrack to this beautiful black & white video which, as I described it 3 years ago, captures something of the joy of early Fennesz & Mego glitch-works for me, but it’s entirely made from electric bass – stuttery edits and pitch-shifts, and occasional outbursts of skronky distortion. That track, “Hount Orbe”, has been included on Ferris’ debut solo album [KAAARST], fitting in very well with the even noisier processed sounds, industrial-seeming beats and shocks of occasional beauty here. I’m looking forward to playing you more from this album, but the first single somehow drags the abstract bass destruction into hip-hop territory, made only more sinister by the guest rapping from Natacha Kanga.
Utility Fog teeters on the cusp between acoustic and electronic, organic and digital. Constantly changing and rearranging, this aural cloud of nanotech consumes genres and spits them out in new forms.
Peter Hollo curates each episode around a narrative of genre-plasticity, deep-diving into artist histories, side projects and influences. Challenging sounds are contextualised within musical movements, surprising connections are uncovered, unfairly overlooked works are revisited.
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