{"title":"Ziur","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZiúr is an experimental producer and musician based in Berlin. Her music takes the form of soundtracks, guiding listeners through different emotional states while offering a glimpse into the underlying essence of each album. With her expansive and diverse soundscapes, Ziúr creates a unique blend of mechanical precision and human emotion. Her highly anticipated second album \"ATØ\" will be released on Planet Mu in fall 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"eyeroll","title":"Eyeroll","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe world has changed, we shouldn't try and pretend otherwise. While we were shut away in isolation our routines shifted, social patterns evolved, and our hopes and dreams were twisted into cobwebs we're still trying to wipe from our fingers. Ziúr tentatively approached this on her last album Antifate, an ambitious and complex hybrid 2 pop fever dream that looked back to a Medieval escapist fantasy as the scent of revolution seemed to hum in the air. But when restrictions were eased, she found herself staring down a discombobulated society that had trapped itself in a spiral of microwaved nostalgia and detached, narcotic repetition. \u003ci\u003eEyeroll\u003c\/i\u003e then is Ziúr's musical panacea, a tincture to wake us from our creative slumber and prompt external connection and reflection. It's a polyphonous hex that demands human interaction, and Ziúr's hand-picked alliance of collaborators - Elvin Brandhi, Abdullah Miniawy, Iceboy Violet, Juliana Huxtable, Ledef, and James Ginzburg - each provide distinct voices that together herald a bewildering sonic epoch. Ziúr's palette had to evolve to match the scope of the project, but it was pure necessity that informed the album's defining tone. Recording mostly at night, Ziúr was conscious of the noise she was making so developed a unique way to record organic percussion. Using a set of rototoms - low profile tunable drums - she scratched, scraped and gently tapped the skins to build up the undulating and unstable rhythmic backdrop for each track. It's the first sound we hear on the opener 'Eyeroll', rattling like lost marbles against Elvin Brandhi's primal croaks and screams. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd when Brandhi's twisted articulations form words, Ziúr matches the energy with chaotic thuds and serrated blasts of saturated electronics. \"I roll the shittiest cigarette,\" she squeals like she's about to start a mosh pit at Paris's GRM Studios. Without pause, Abdullah Miniawy takes over on 'Malikan', building on the promise of material with Simo Cell, Carl Gari and HVAD with corrosive trumpet blasts and charged, politically incendiary Arabic vocals. Inspired by pre-Islamic poetry and the Qu'ranic chanters he heard growing up in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, he spins labyrinthine stories that cross between the worlds, breaking down physical and spiritual borders simultaneously. Miniawy's scope is expanded even further on his second collaboration, 'If The City Burns I Will Not Run'. \"If it rains and the city drowns,\" he utters over gaseous electronics, \"I will not run away, but I will be anxious for the heart of one close to me.\" After a supple vocal turn from Manchester's Iceboy Violet on 'Move On' and a surreal interlude from poet- DJ-artist-theorist Juliana Huxtable on '99 Favor Taste', Brandhi returns with two more hyperactive collaborations: ,'Nontrivial Differential' and 'Cut Cut Quote'. On the former she slices into Ziúr's skeletal jazz eruptions, screaming and crooning interchangeably, fluxing between the rap battle and the cabaret. The latter is completely different meanwhile, with Brandhi settling into her role as front-woman and groaning dizzying improvised passages that sound like grunge crossed with psychedelic no-wave. Brandhi's spiky musical history has prepared her well for this collaboration; she's a prolific producer and has been using her voice spontaneously since debuting with father-daughter improv duo Yeah You in the mid 2020s. She's found an ideal foil in Ziúr, a producer who matches her restless energy and willingness to bend formality, and leaves an indelible mark on \u003ci\u003eEyeroll\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the album's most tender moments are from Ziúr herself, who winds the album down on 'Hasty Revisionism', growling over collapsible beats and cascading strings, and comes to an unexpected conclusion with country coda 'Lacrymaturity'. Its feverish amalgamation of country music and euphoric, experimental electronics might seem incongruous at first, but in context with the rest of the album is the only possible conclusion. With \u003ci\u003eEyeroll\u003c\/i\u003e Ziúr is making a firm statement about togetherness, humanity, and the renewal of hope when all seems lost. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy bringing together such a wide but philosophically harmonic team of collaborators, she's conducted a body of work that speaks to the creative fringe in no uncertain terms. Now's the time to throw away what you think you know, and build bridges you didn't think you need. Now's the time for action. She may have spent her entire career avoiding the solipsistic trappings of \"queer art\", but by assembling a communal statement that questions so many normative assumptions about music, politics, and beyond, Ziúr has chanced upon her queerest album yet. 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Its rush of clear electronic beeps and tones, crunchy drums and cold metallic stabs share space alongside bell tones and marimba, dhol drums, r\u0026amp;b melodies and rich strings, as if the gritty distortion of \u003ci\u003eU Feel Anything? \u003c\/i\u003ehas given way to a bloom of colour. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Planet Mu","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50460645785931,"sku":"1074002","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50460646244683,"sku":"1074001","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c5ea7a8c-805c-4f9d-87be-4c01fe5a79cd_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727236018"},{"product_id":"u-feel-anything","title":"U Feel Anything","description":"\u003cp\u003eZiur is one of the most exciting producers to come out of the fringes of Berlin club music in the last few years. 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She’s sung, played guitar and drums and reduced club music to a burning cinder; with \u003ci\u003eAntifate\u003c\/i\u003e, her third album under the Ziúr moniker, she approaches electronic music without any preciousness or reverence to genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2019’s acclaimed \u003ci\u003eATØ\u003c\/i\u003e re-introduced songs to her canon, contorting her vocals over an undulating electronic backdrop. On \u003ci\u003eAntifate\u003c\/i\u003e, she takes this idea further, pushing abstracted pop forms into mists of digital euphoria and extracting unexpected instrumental flourishes from collapsing clouds of distorted rhythm. Electronic instrumentation is melted into acoustic sounds and vice-versa, creating a breathing organic universe that’s entirely Ziúr’s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan","offers":[{"title":"Green | LP","offer_id":50512896360779,"sku":"1117252","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/78654029-ebf9-4560-bc8d-b26472f4f3fd_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727909708"},{"product_id":"turn-liquid-into-dust-feat-kenichi-iwasa","title":"Turn Liquid Into Dust (feat. Kenichi Iwasa)","description":"\u003cp\u003eZiúr lines up with The Tapeworm for an exclusive cassette-only release featuring Kenichi Iwasa, exploring the electroacoustic realms. Invited to perform solo at Tarek Atoui's performance series at Kunsthaus Bregenz in October 2024, Ziúr decided to write a new piece for the occasion. This composition, 'Turn Liquid Into Dust', was then performed within the framework of Tarek Atoui's 'Waters' Witness' exhibition as an 8-channel spacial audio piece, transmitting sounds through the installation's structure – metal bars, stones, compost piles… Composed in London in autumn 2024, its principal source of sonic material is recordings of Atoui's instruments which Ziúr had recorded in his studio in Paris during the summer of 2024. In addition, she invited the Japanese woodwind player and virtuoso Kenichi Iwasa to join on all pieces, his contribution providing a binding element, tying the pieces together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tapeworm","offers":[{"title":"Tape","offer_id":51587040444747,"sku":"R5774-1550","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cover.ki_4b388981-6ecc-46cd-a10a-0ea58e2ce6d7.jpg?v=1743866364"},{"product_id":"home-13","title":"Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe notion of home isn’t precise, even a dictionary will offer multiple definitions. A home can be a place where you live, a place where you belong, where you originate from or a place where you’re given care; it can be a physical space, a land, a people or even a person. The concept isn’t completely universal, but everyone possesses a unique idea of what home means to them. On her fifth album, Ziúr considers not just what home symbolizes from her perspective, but the word’s resonance to the diverse community that surrounds her, and how their stories have impacted her over the years. Indeed, it’s the first time she’s felt it necessary to examine her own nationality. In the past, she’s deliberately avoided labelling herself as German, feeling disconnected from her country’s politics, culture and even the German language itself. In 2025, the idea of Germanness is in flux and progressives are under attack from all sides. The country’s politics aren’t only being turned inward by the growing throng of far-right voices, but by scared moderates, opportunists and those blinded by comfort, willing to ignore hatred to maintain their privilege. Stepping up to provide a different narrative, Ziúr scours her soul, writing and singing in German for the first time and proposing growth and evolution, not fear and regression. “I never considered being part of Germany,” she explains. “But I am.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA solemn mood permeates the album’s opening track ‘Brown is the Color’, and Ziúr sings in measured, slow-motion breaths over noisy synth oscillations and doomed piano flourishes. Already, it’s a significant departure from her last run of releases, veering away from the frenetic, satirical chaos of 2023’s Hakuna Kulala-released \u003cem\u003eEyeroll\u003c\/em\u003e or its fantastical, dubby predecessor \u003cem\u003eAntifate.\u003c\/em\u003e Ziúr pulls on real world insights here, tracing her oldest, dearest musical inspirations to present her origins to anybody who might be listening. “Cold world is holding up,” she laments with a metallic crunch. “To let go of your heart, let me go.” And her voice emerges from the shadows completely on ‘Tame’; unprocessed, Ziúr sounds naked and vulnerable on ‘Tame’, curving her precise words around broken, lopsided rhythms and jangling new wave guitars. It’s pop music in its own way, inverted and reconstructed to fit snugly into her well-established sonic landscape. On ‘No Yawn’, brittle, downsampled hi-hats and industrial scrapes ping-pong around distorted riffs, provided by James Ó Ceallaigh aka WIFE; “You fail to sugarcoat your half-ass attempt,” she deadpans, “to build your promised wonderland on quicksand.” Even the beatless ‘All Odds No Chants’, a collaboration with Elvin Brandhi and Sara Persico, reveals another room in Ziúr’s autobiographical suite, mirroring György Ligeti’s enduringly influential choral works with its gnarled, dissonant vocal harmonies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe key to \u003cem\u003eHome,\u003c\/em\u003e though, lies underneath the album’s central track, the first Ziúr has written in German. ‘Im Bann Der Wehenden Fahnen’ (in the spell of flags waving) directly tackles the country’s muddled political landscape – its complex history and its dangerously hypocritical present. “ne Geschichte die ohne Herz beginnt,” (a story that begins with no heart) she opens. “dessen strömendes Blut unweigerlich abwärts rinnt” (whose streaming blood runs unstoppably backwards). We know exactly what she’s talking about as Ziúr recounts a bleak repetition of events, pairing her words with bar room piano chords and jazzy drums that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Notwist record: “Wenn die Moral der Geschichte geschickt kaschiert wird wird in der Gunst der Stunde Wort für Wort neu etikettiert” (when the story’s moral, so neatly concealed, meets its moment to be relabeled word for word). It’s refreshing to hear such confident, poetic German words, and Ziúr sounds free-er than ever before examining her uncomfortable relationship with Germany in her native tongue. And this openness carries the whole record, whether she’s crying harsh truths over damaged orchestral scrapes on the album’s goth-y title track, or duetting with Manchester’s Iceboy Violet on ‘Through the Trees’. On the former, Ziúr’s voice soars, echoing hypnotically over unsettling analog distortions and gnarled strings. It’s one of the eeriest and most beautiful tracks she’s penned, camouflaging its broken electronics with ghostly moans and theatrical punctuations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy inviting in her own demons, Ziúr has been able to write her most personal album. 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