SABASABA - Unknown City (Vinyl)

Creeping through an imaginary border, sidesteppin' through the night like cyber phantoms eavesdropping on early morning
machinery shifts, an industrial solstice for pagan mystics. After five years Torino's mysterious SabaSaba are back with 'Unknown City'
an imaginary soundtrack for a dystopian city: digital raga, horror Exotica, half-speed techno, metallic dub and organic electronics.
The duo of Andrea Marini (synth, guitar, electronics, tapes) and Gabriele Maggiorotto (drums, percussion, effects, programming)
return with their most political manifesto yet, an intricate musical essay inspired by China Mi ville's novel 'The City And The City',
examining border control, repression, an unknown city where people move like ghosts without personality and without
communicating, monitored on sight by the authorities. SabaSaba's personal OST is a whirlwind of analog and digital instruments
colliding, textured samples, syncopated drums and spiritual synth sweeps often heightened by Ambra Chiara Michelangeli's eerie viola
playing, an ancestral force resisting under a cement tower, modulars gasping for air, endlessly reverberating into noir-soul and gray
landscapes.
Like Mi ville's two imaginary cities Ul Qoma e Beszel, SabaSaba's journey is cavernous, claustrophobic at times, but a clear sense of
evasion and resistance breaks through, small flickers of light, like a cyborg calibrating himself - the hypnotic dub ambient of 'False
Speech' - for an ecstatic liberation - the trance inducing 'Wrists Free' featuring UK industrial techno duo Jerome. 'Ul Qoma' unites
Boards of Canada's emotional detune, with On-U Sound's terrestrial ground force, 'Night Plotters' kosmische elevation is chained to
the ground, while 'Guarantee Safety In The Cities' fluctuates like a nightrider, eyes shifting left and right, a somber procession
descending into grace and paranoia ; 'Catatonia' is a message of hope, off-kilter beats carrying solitude on an unknown path.
'Unknown City' is an album for dark isolationists but also for people trying to connect, striving for freedom, be it primordial, celestial
or written in dust.

Vinyl release of Sabasaba - Unknown City (Vinyl). Released through Maple Death Records and available on LP.