{"title":"Elaine Mai","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"home-2","title":"Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eElaine Mai releases a vinyl edition of her stunning debut album\u003ci\u003e Home\u003c\/i\u003e for Record Store Day '22 including remixes of No Forever featuring MayKay, Still Feel featuring Ailbhe Reddy and Go Slow featuring Sinead White.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed as ‘a euphoric breath of fresh air’ (Totally Dublin), Mai’s stunning debut \u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e features propulsive rhythms, stirring synth lines, and contributions from some of the most exciting Ireland-based artists on the scene, MayKay, Ailbhe Reddy, Sinéad White, and Loah. It’s a creative electronic work that has found many fans in its home territory with The Irish Independent charting ‘No Forever’ as one of their top 10 singles of the year and multiple glowing press reviews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe music of Elaine Mai is rich with lived-in experience. \u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e represents a patiently beautiful, immediately rewarding celebration of this rising Irish electronic artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Magical Music Sounds","offers":[{"title":"Green | LP","offer_id":50417230414155,"sku":"1145973","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2c726996-391b-46e9-ab2b-6f12819fb87a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726722602"},{"product_id":"rimorso","title":"Rimorso","description":"\u003cp\u003eRepossessed by the past, bitten once again and forced to relive drama, history, memories, tradition and roots. A past that needs exorcizing, bending and re-imagining in order to move forward and depend on. This is \u003ci\u003eRimorso\u003c\/i\u003e, Mai Mai Mai’s colossal mediterranean gothic album. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown for his incredible blend of Southern Italian Folklore, industrial drone, proto-techno and punishing miasmic electronic music, Toni Cutrone aka Mai Mai Mai approached \u003ci\u003eRimorso\u003c\/i\u003e with a clean slate. Following \u003ci\u003eNel Sud\u003c\/i\u003e (La Tempesta International, 2019) and his mediterranean trilogy \u003ci\u003eTheta\u003c\/i\u003e (Boring Machines, 2013), \u003ci\u003eΔέλτα\u003c\/i\u003e (Delta) (Yerevan Tapes, 2014) and \u003ci\u003eΦ\u003c\/i\u003e (Phi) (Not Not Fun Records \/ Boring Machines, 2017) the Roma based noise artist recreated his spirits of the past by collaborating with musicians and ethnomusicologists that work on the present, on traditions that are still passed on and morphing continuously, healing our nostalgia for a lost future. \u003ci\u003eRimorso\u003c\/i\u003e sheds the past heavy use of samples and sound manipulation in lieu of a human element: voices, percussion, lap steel guitar all embedded in a rich cultural heritage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom ‘Fimmene Fimmene’, a recontextualized protest chant of female tobacco workers in Salento, sung majestically by Nidi d’Arac prodigy Vera Di Lecce, to ‘Nostalgia’ where Beirut born Youmna Saba literally soars over a futuristic Arabic melodrama on the verge of ascension, ‘Rimorso’ is an album that treads black waters, were phantoms dance ceremonially, tip-toeing around the heart. ‘Sind’ revisits one of Faraualla’s (Puglia female quartet known for their repertoire of a cappella vocal polyphonies) pieces with techno outsider Cosimo Damiano and the vital percussion of the Ars Ludi ensemble; ‘Mediterranean Gothic’ sees Mike Cooper’s tropical exotica plunge into the abyss, witch hymns under a black sun rising; ‘Musica Nova’ loosely based on Musicanova’s ‘Pizzica Minore’, features Nziria’s neomelodic stratifications (Tullia Benedicta) hovering on a slow thump chopper, a pulsating techno serenade; led by the visceral voice of Maria Violenza ‘Secondo Coro delle Lavandaie’, an obscure gem of Italian folk music, mixes hypnotic voodoo drumming and an enchanting choir filtered through a Southern Gothic lens; album closer ‘Antiche Memorie’ is heightened by maestro and longtime Battiato collaborator Lino Capra Vaccina (vibraphone, gong, percussion), purveyor of cosmic sheen and placid elegance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRimorso\u003c\/i\u003e is Mai Mai Mai’s new ritual, turning absence into presence, dismissing nostalgia for consummation, an immersion into the temporal disjunction we are experiencing through the essence of human fabric.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maple Death","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50417639686475,"sku":"1151783","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50417640276299,"sku":"1151782","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/478e89be-c11a-4895-a042-fc915df471a1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726734310"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/elaine-mai.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}