Name: Chasing Stateless
Brand: Saint Abdullah, Eomac

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ZIQ450

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Green

Colour details

Sage Green

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-10-20

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5056321682444

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Green LP

Artist

Saint Abdullah

Eomac

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Planet Mu

Artist, composer, producer, DJ and label owner of Eotrax. Eomac is a multi-talented artist who has made a significant impact on the electronic music scene. With his unique blend of experimental soundscapes and hard-hitting beats, he has carved out a niche for himself in the industry.

Eomac draws inspiration from a diverse range of genres and artists including Lakker, Karenn, Blawan, Rrose, Ancient Methods, SHXCXCHCXSH, Stanislav Tolkachev, Restive Plaggona, Oake, SØS Gunver Ryberg and many more. His music reflects this eclectic taste by incorporating elements from various styles to create something truly original.

As the founder of Eotrax label, Eomac has not only established himself as an accomplished musician but also as a curator of cutting-edge electronic music. Through his label's releases and events he continues to push boundaries and support emerging talent within the industry.

Planet Mu is an independent music label that was founded in 1995 by Mike Paradinas. Originally starting as an imprint on Virgin, the label was created to release music from artists like µ-Ziq and others who shared a similar style. However, due to Virgin's lack of success in marketing this type of music, Mike Paradinas decided to establish Planet Mu as an independent label in 1998. It is at this point that the catalog numbers for releases under the name *ZIQ* began.

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Saint Abdullah and Eomac is a long distance, ongoing collaboration between New York based Iranian-Canadian brothers Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani (Saint Abdullah) and Ian McDonnell a.k.a. Eomac, based in Wicklow in Ireland. They tested the waters with their first album on Nicolas Jaar's Other People label last year, but 'Chasing Stateless' is their fullest expression so far.

The creative mindset behind the album starts with bravery and eschews escapism. Says Saint Abdullah's Mohammad, "As a collective, we exist to test the revolutionary possibilities within sound and sonic storytelling. As a means to finding a vision of the future and for building cultural dialogue today. Our belief is that the expressiveness of this vision should be pushed to its utmost limits to reveal anew. I always felt that the intensity of the middle eastern soul needs to be revealed more potently. Ian and the Irish have it too. I suspect most historically oppressed cultures do."

The music on Chasing Stateless avoids easy middle eastern tropes — "I think what we're proposing here is that you don't need to water down our culture, you don't need to take only the bits that fit your idea of who we are, what we are. You ought to take it in its entirety."

Musically, the album approaches established genres and re-orientates them towards middle eastern rhythm and melody with an iron soul. Songs are rough and intense. Rusty polyrhythms, daf drums wrapped in a thick coating of distortion or punchy kicks with micro-edited samples of middle eastern life spiralling across them. Mournful melodies are squeezed out until the music teeters on the edge of rhythmic collapse. Chasing Stateless is rough and energetic but also tender and reflective too. It's a human sound, utilising technology but not about technology. Sample heavy with expressions of anger, sadness and hope present and deeply felt.

The album's title speaks to a loss of collective societal imagination; of 'chasing status'. As Moh says "This generation, man, we're really good at putting up walls, despite all our openness. But where does this all lead to? What exactly are we chasing? This is where I especially love the name Chasing Stateless, because if all this continues, we indeed will end up stateless, society-less, community-less, neighbor-less. Just a bunch of same-sies, living in an imaginary bubble, where we all look / think / say / Chase the same things."

Chasing Stateless

Music GB

Discover Chasing Stateless by Eomac. A rough and intense album that re-orientates established genres towards middle eastern rhythm and melody. Label: Planet Mu.