Catalog Number: DBL31LP Color: Black Format: LP UPC: 5050580830660 Ardor or Entropy is Nzumbe's first album in nine years, following 2015's Titubeo. During this period, philosopher and artist Miguel Prado's sonic output has included synthesizing a sonic Gernika with his band HARRGA alongside Dali de Saint Paul, and crafting a hallucinatory sci-fi mythology for Lucrecia Dalt's latest album, !Ay!." Rewiring the conventions of chamber electronics and postmodern songwriting. Here it is presented A Spanish' song cycle on love and cosmological redshift. The distant echo of Tristan-and-Iseult's smoking gun where lovemaking becomes an enactment of entropy, a transformation between the dynamic and the static, the human and the fetish, illustrating the inevitable decline into chaos and stillness. A beached singing voice (beautifully processed by Rashad Becker) against electro-acoustic backdrops ranging from the caustic, viscous to the bonecrushingly dense worldbuilding shared by HR Giger, Ballard and Pynchon. Transcendental and psychotic vistas that boldly examine human fragility and the surrounding abyss of godlessness. --------------------------------- Artist: Nzumbe Title: Ardor or Entropy Label: Drowned By Locals Catalog Number: DBL31LP Year: 2024 Side A: Mirror Of TauromachyZone Of AlienationGreat Vitreous TactKarman Vortex Street Side B: Serpentine LinesThermocline Anake and EntropyErgosferaAsymptopia Composed, arranged and recorded by Miguel Prado Casanova Vocal processing by Rashad Becker Piano on "Anake and Entropy" by Michael PisaroPipes on "Mirror Of Tauromachy" and "Ergosfera" by Wojciech RusinAccordion on "Asymptopia" by Alfredo Costa MonteiroTrumpet on "Asymptopia" by Ruth Barberan Electric bass on "Asymptopia" by Dominic LashElectric guitar on "Asymptopia" by Daniel BennettPercussion on "Asymptopia" by Alex Lazaro Premixed by Miguel Prado Casanova Mixed, Mastered and Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker Artwork photos by Lua Ribeira (c) all rights reserved, 2024Design by Giovanni Murolo This album is dedicated to Patricia Special thanks to Patricia Fraga, Dali de Saint Paul, Mattin, Lucrecia Dalt, Laith Demashqieh, Lua Ribeira, Rashad Becker