This holds true on ‘All the Lies about Dame Area’. Yet throughout these highlights and beyond, Dame Area establish their own voice, as vivid derivation becomes transformation and inspirations are redefined.ĭame Area have been accurately described as purveyors of combat music - ‘Música de lucha’ - rather than producers of dance music. Me sembra’ (‘Sometimes it seems to me’) is dreamlike and winsome, the sound of an auspicious horizon, hitting the sweet spot somewhere between Chris & Cosey’s ‘October Love Song’, the Dorothy ‘I Confess’ħ” on Industrial Records, as well as the finer moments of Martin Dupont and early Human League. Conversely, the disarming finale ‘A volte Gridlocked minimal synth mechanics are riven with insurgent noise and dub echoes on ‘La Nueva Era’ (‘The New Era’) while the fierce hedonism of ‘Innamorata del tuo Controllo’ (‘In Love with your Control’) evokes striking alternative histories Gino Soccio meets Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, the Italo years of Liaisons Dangereuses, Nitzer Ebb reworked by Bobby O. Across eight tracks, Dame Area assert an original, seductive idea of pop, laced with avant-garde subversion. The first of two twin LPs, ‘All the Lies about Dame Area’ illustrates one world within the wider universe of Dame Area, an album of paradox, which finds the duo at their most explicit and emphatic, but which also sees them detour, into some of their most experimental material to date. Upholding the assaultive intensity of their renowned live shows, Dame Area’s third album ‘Toda lamentira sobre Dame Area’ / ‘All the Lies about Dame Area’ nevertheless discloses unexpected developments, a work distinguished by innovation and classicism, discordance and melodicism, the grit of a basement club and the gleam of a radical discotheque. An artistic identity that embraces influence yet eschews compromise. Across two albums and several EPs for the likes of Mannequin Records, B.F.E Records and their own cult imprint / DIY organization Màgia Roja, Dame Area have executed an eclectic, discerning form of contemporary industrial music, deploying compulsive minimal synth and primal polyrhythms, as well as uniquely reconstrued elements of post-punk & EBM.
Crux – is formidable, volatile, unpredictable. The essence of Dame Area – the project of Barcelona-based duo Silvia Kostance and Viktor L. Influenced by Sgt Pepper's and Luke Abbott’s Translate LP, Samson pushed himself to new heights, completely reworking and re-recording some initial tracks when he realised he wasn't creatively extending himself far enough. His long-time collaborator Beatrijs De Klerck provides strings, Rachael Dadd adds subtle backing vocals, but its Will’s unique vision that gently comes alive throughout the album. Where previous efforts were informed hugely by his work with tape machines, here he uses more live percussion than ever before. Carey, through to The Album Leaf, Olafur Arnalds, and Do Make Say Think. Musically, Active Imagination bends subtly between folk and electronica, where little pulses of experimental flourishes sit next to Samson’s evocative vocals, and the record pulls many of its reference points from a number of the artists he’s shared a stage with over the years: from Bon Iver’s S. Worked on across the span of one entire year – from January of 2020 through to December – it’s comprised of nine beautiful new pieces, and sits as a richly layered meditation on the idea of belonging, identity and the search for home in the most unstable of worlds. "intricacy and tenderness recalling kindred spirits such as Nils Frahm and Sufjan Stevens" - The Sunday TimesĮlectronic / folk artist Will Samson performs live at The Glad Cafe in celebration of new release Active Imagination, the follow-up to 2019’s Paralanguage, released via Wichita Recordings.
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