9T Antiope - "Shapeshift"

Thrilled to hear new work from the Iranian-French duo 9T Antiope out soon American Dreams Records. A duo that lives in the venn diagram between ambient sounds, broken jazz and electroacoustic experimentation. On Shapeshift the duo, drill into the fears of horror vacuum while building a dynamic world that seems to exist outside of the bounds of time and place. “For people like us,” the band says, “living in the in-between of two worlds we’ve lived in, the ongoing search for a relation between the world one used to know and the new world—at times, neither the origin nor the destination exist as a whole. New and old sounds, colors, textures and spaces overlap. Then the differences emerge, drag the two spaces apart,” and create thresholds. The title track illustrates these thresholds most prominently with the kh sound in Farsi, where vastly different meanings result from slight changes in pronunciation, language alone struggling to convey its depths. Other songs directly call out the complications of memory (“Let me forget…I no longer want to hear or smell or see”), flashbacks, or the difficulty of dementia and age-related decline.”