OUA_BF by squncr

OUA_BF consists of two tracks, born from the encounter of a personal archival collection and an unpredicted event. This event – a terror attack in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) on 15 January 2016 – triggered a memorial and emotional process that connected two very different temporalities and questioned the relationship one develops with a place. A once foreign place, progressively loaded with personal memories, feelings and life events...

HA_HA (track1 + a downloadable text) is based on a short field recording realised in one take, at night, as an urgent need, a few days after the attack.

Wend Paanga D (track2) comes exclusively from materials recorded on cassettes from January to February 2000, in the north of Burkina Faso (today an inaccessible region, because of the terror threat).

This is the remastered version of an EP originally released in 2016 for Bordille Records, label created by François Larini and Julien Bayle.

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"What does a city sound like after a terrorist attack? Are the differences palpable or barely perceived? François Larini climbed onto a roof to record the sounds of Burkina Faso after attending a funeral for a friend. Through this aural lens, he ~ and by extension, the listener ~ listen for danger as well as hope. The birds still chirp. The traffic still passes. Is life still good? The act of creation provides its own response." (Richard Allen, A Closer Listen, December 2016)

squncr sound practice is focused on ambient, drones, tapes, field recording, improvisation and archives balancing between personal narrative and ethnographic documents.

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