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Following his acclaimed debut ‘Bayou EP’ on Disboot in 2014, Sunny Graves returns to the Barcelona-based label with ‘Erosion EP’ – a thoroughly meditated collection of work made up of four carefully constructed rhythmic, harmonic, textural and emotional explorations through which the UK/Latin American artist heads deeper into the dense and multi-layered territories he has become known to explore.

Instinctively, Sunny Graves has always attempted to reflect certain aspects of nature through sound. Part way through the process of creating the EP, he embarked on a journey which led to the Himalayan and Karakoram Buddhist regions of Ladakh. There he witnessed the effects of erosion in two of its most powerful forms – that which gradually affects the majestic, hostile and humbling landscape and that which rapidly affects an ancient culture now struggling to remain sane amidst the constant bombardment of Western ideals. The resulting sensations became reduced to a single image – a geometrically perfect, artificial form that comes between us and the surroundings.

The artwork is graphic designer Ariadna Serrahima’s visual response to that scene and speaks of a progressive disconnection from nature and the imposition and/or obstruction of our modern world and perception on it.

Upon returning from that journey, reasserted of the internal and external dualities that drive his work (i.e. permanence–impermanence, light–dark, organic–synthetic, subtlety–abrasiveness, action–reaction), Sunny Graves returned to the studio and in a more visceral manner proceeded to capture the instances in which frequencies collide and friction occurs, rigorously sculpting the layers of sound that make up the tracks on the record.

EP opener and title track “Erosion” seeps in with its drifting analogue synths, speaker-knocking kick drums, distorted bass tones, cascading arpeggio lines and grime-tinged percussion, building in tension to then release, whereas “Stone/Shroud” smashes ambient soundscapes, menacing staccato and spectrum-ripping synth lines against triplet inflicted drums. “Thunder” gradually escalates into an electro-acoustic storm with its disembodied voices, amplified cymbal scrapes, feedback, polyrhythmic percussion, noise and pummelling bass tones weaving in and out of each other, before developing into some form of ambient hardcore. And closing out the EP, “Falling Light – I & II” leads into perhaps the record’s darkest terrains with its spectral chimes, sustained bass drones, swelling jungle ambience and the artist’s first openly lyrical vocal experiments, giving way to serpentine arpeggios and culminating in a full-on percussive and multi-tonal wall of sound.

The EP was written, recorded and mixed in Barcelona during the summer, autumn and winter of 2015, mastered and cut by Sam John at Precise Mastering, pressed on 140g vinyl and is distributed by Unearthed Sounds.

Liner notes written in collaboration with Frankie Pizá.

All tracks written & produced by Simon Williams
Artwork & design by Ariadna Serrahima
Mix assisted by Fernando Ayesa
Mastered & cut by Precise Mastering
Catalogue #: DBOOT025
Format: 12″ vinyl & digital
Release date: 7th October 2016

12″ vinyl includes free MP3/WAV/FLAC digital download card.

All tracks written & produced by Simon Williams
Artwork & design by Ariadna Serrahima
Mix assisted by Fernando Ayesa
Mastered & cut by Precise Mastering

Further links + info –

https://facebook.com/sunnysunnygraves

https://twitter.com/sunny__graves

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Pau Encinas also known as Cauto returns after several years of apparent inactivity. His previous EP, 35/8, was published in 2011 via Disboot.
Since then until now, he has worked on several collaborations and remixes. One of the reasons for Disboots existence is to promote and release
young and local talent. Cauto, without exception, is an essential one of these.

From his first release on Dj Rupture ́s Dutty Artz in 2008, Pau has been developing his skills as a producer and talented musician rooted in his background in Catalan folk music. The culmination of his musical evolution is the crystallisation of his new Lp.

“Prova A Veure Si Ets Capac De Menjar Pedres” (Try to see if you can eat stones) is his latest work and first Lp where each word in the title is the name of a track, and each of these must be understood as an aqueous sequence rather than a kind of feature sound. In each of its 9 songs deep bass, jungle rhythms and organic textures abound which have little to do with
the barrenness of its title.

“Prova A Veure Si Ets Capac De Menjar Pedres” materializes two years of work created between Berlin, Barcelona and his hometown Banyoles. This beautiful Lp was recently presented live at Sónar 2016 in an all-hardware liveset where Cauto was accompanied by Dani Guijarro (Headbirds) long time friend and collaborator in other projects such as C156.

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