Arabie 79 - Arabie 79

''Arabie '79'' is a tape cassette released on Booma Collective, a record label from Montreal which puts out music straight from the apartments of the people behind it.

There is no information about Arabie '79 anywhere you could possibly look for such an unheard of artist, but at least the SoundCloud upload comes with a funny description written by him/her. According to the given story, it took 28 months, a goal which has been forgotten during the process, the gut that determined the whole 35 minutes and 21 seconds to fill an empty space in this world and some of the good old fundamental not-knowing-what-is-going-on for this project to reach its final result. Pretty much an outright recipe for something good to materialize.

''Arabie '79'' is split into Side A and Side B, the two lasting for 20, respectively 15 minutes of visions inducing, tactile stirring, so on and so forth music.

Side A is initially placed in an untouched natural environment, but quickly moves on to an electrified medium mixed with faint traffic noise and suppressed flute songs. Then all harmonies are veiled under a thick coat of heavy winds blowing erratically. Voices reach out from an old radio in the grotesque atmosphere of a deserted area. Percussion finally makes its way into the scene, mollifying everything around it. As the sharp percussion wears out too, the track turns into a view of Sun rays pointing down from the dense rain filled clouds. In its final part, Side A perfectly emulates the characteristic sound of BBC Radiophonic Workshop in a contemporary way. The very end crumbles any trace of poignancy through the assuring that the spectators enjoyed the performance.

The beginning of Side B is no fairy tale. But after the ghostly moments of unearthly voices, electromagnetic field and plasma waves sounds, it does delicately turn into one. After all, graveyards can be profoundly peaceful places. The second chapter is doused in deteriorated basic hip hop beats and ends with a picture of the sun and seagull feet taken from nearly the surface of the sea. After a dive into the depths where only roiled waves can be heard, the quest for disappearing descends into the last part. Here there is more darkness than water and more pressure than darkness.

Arabie '79 advises us to listen to his cassette while running (in the park or our apartments), cooking or washing the dishes. The only condition is to avoid playing it in your local spa since you might get sued for that. I'm wondering what it's like to hear this cassette in a spa...

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