Chino Amobi - PARADISO

WTF even is this? I have no idea what I just listened to but I'm pretty sure it's astonishing.

This went completely under my radar until it appeared at the top of The Wire's EOY list. I suppose Oneohtrix Point Never's Garden of Delete is the most obvious reference point but that doesn't do it justice. Huge slabs of hypercompressed electronic noise smashed together like toy robots, but everything from surf rock to Daft Punk to contemporary afropop to Edgar Allen Poe emerges out of the carnage at points.

Anyway let's give this its own thread because there's a hell of a lot going on here and most of it is exhilarating.

amazing album, only found it due to the wire's list too
reminds me a bit more of the stuff from this year like machine girl / fire-toolz more than OPN tho but can see yr link

also it's *paradiso :)

maybe some stuff like (from 2k17) blanck mass, prurient & even ninos du brasil comes a bit close too!

still haven't given this a listen but i did hear his 'airport music for black folk' album last year which was a pretty good serving of frought, paranoid, anti-ambient music

also it's *paradiso :)

Duly noted.

It definitely reminded me of this year's Blanck Mass album as well, clearly a lot more high-concept and wide-ranging through.

agreed

It is incredible. Quite easy to lump it in with a lot of this 'nightmare cut-up sound collage' stuff that I'm not so keen on, but this is transcendental. My only qualm is that I've got to be in the mood for it as it demands a fair bit of attention

'airport music for black folk'

wow @ this title.

Check out Dedekind Cut maybe? (It's Lee Bannon, totally effed up.. is there a lee bannon thread?

there are some bits that made me think of Lee Bannon, too

Surprised this is the first discussion of this here ... Lee bannon is definitely adjacent to this, as is melanin free, the whole non records thing, also the ptp crew which is less maximalist. Klein record feels related as well ...

this album is some good shit, btw

Excellent.

Surprised this is the first discussion of this here ... Lee bannon is definitely adjacent to this, as is melanin free, the whole non records thing, also the ptp crew which is less maximalist. Klein record feels related as well ...

Elisa Crampton too right, unless she's covered in the above?

new Rabit too.

Speaking of PTP, I listened through this whole comp yesterday and there is some worthwhile stuff (not to mention the cause):
https://purpletapepedigree.bandcamp.com/album/va-shine-compilation-for-puerto-rico

Elysia crampton and rabit otm

Also hella crucial / mystifyingly absent from ilm : Moor mother

Might also say killl alters and jpegmafia

Lotta this stuff seems on a Richmond / Baltimore / philly tip

But not to detract from the singular awesomeness of chino amobi ... sorry for slight detail. I'll say that he is amazing live - played the record fairly straight but it sounded huge and his vocals were commanding

Yes it's all heavenly

In terms of sheer sound, this is mightily impressive and, yes, original. Alas, the spoken word bits don't do it for me at all, even though I struggle to imagine this album without them. But then again, I tend to conceive of music as an escape from the reign of language…

gotta give props to y'all for getting this up there on ilm top 77 albums, i was looking for something to listen to and going in blind, right from the intro track i was like 'i don't care if this record turns out to be grindcore or weird ambient shit or all spoken word whatever, i'm in', and from there every track got crazier. really intense music!

his 'airport music for black folk' album last year which was a pretty good serving of frought, paranoid, anti-ambient music

― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, December 14, 2017 3:24 AM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love 'anti-ambient' as a descriptor

bout ready for another release chino

had the same thought a few weeks ago

he's apparently been finishing a degree and his art/writing project is going to have a music component soon-ish

this album works really well in the current climate

still growing into his newer stuff, but I listened to Paradiso two days ago and it still is an absolute great