SUM by ali dada
Swiss intergalactic experimentalists lean on a Dadaist theme for their late-night, jam-inspired, and smokey beat laden trip to the cosmos.
Distilling surf rock, jazz and ambience, energised and patched together with spoken word samples, wind instruments and, blunted hip hop beats, ali dada’s album SUM is their invitation to ‘dadaversum’ - their eccentric universe of sound and emotion.
Featuring Orlando Ludens (guitar & ambient soundscapes), Rulla (beats & field recordings), Max Licht (brass & trombone) and many more, experimentation is the constant and SUM is the result of a ‘meta-level of jams and associative distillation’ always with a fluid sense of genre.
Whilst SUM clearly takes new and furtive steps, ali dada’s sound is wholly their own. Nothing feels rigid here and rules don’t apply. Improvisation lingers in the air, even after the last note fades. A series of sound sketches, dense in detail, stylistically rich, SUM gives licence to couch-melt, sungaze or for those used to wintry climes, add another log on the fire.
Tracklist
| 1. | abolish the police | 4:49 |
| 2. | start | 3:52 |
| 3. | sum | 4:54 |
| 4. | bern | 5:38 |
| 5. | ohnedi | 5:08 |
| 6. | tone print | 4:14 |
| 7. | arriv | 3:19 |
| 8. | federici | 3:44 |
| 9. | ui | 4:10 |
Credits
Orlando Ludens: guitar, bass, post-prod
Max Licht: synths, trombone, food, spaces, post-prod, heart
Sofia Sturm: harp on "ohnedi"
Häuserfrau: vocals & ukulele on "abolish the police", "ohnedi" & "ui"
t. bailey: vocals & bass on "tone print"
alienistcog, danger dave, exuberate: fieldrecordings
mishy misch, daniel imhof, irubo, sïanaïs und alle da da: advisory board & important allies
mfj rulla: beats, modular, soundscapes, synths, production
Produced by ali dada
Artwork by dankeliebs
Mastered at Schallzentrale
LC 24538
Catalog No. YNFND 033
© + ℗ YNFND 2024
License
All rights reserved.
Psychedelic guitars, lazy drums and soothing ambiences: ali dada subtract essences of surf rock, slow jazz, lofi-beats and ambient and build their own style out of it. In 2020 their debut-album was released on leveldva, followed by small flowers either self-released, on urban cosmonaut radio or drosssel. The following releases will be much different again, but still unmistakably ali dada.