bod [包家巷] - Live in Paris (2022) [Hi-Res]

Following releases on Danse Noire, YEAR0001, Quantum Natives and Knives, bod [包家巷] returns to Pastel Voids for this release of an impassioned 2020 performance. Emotional material that plays elastic vocals - sung and screamed - off harsh noise, blissful piano and glossy electronics.

The Chinese-American audiovisual artist is at their most expressive here, structuring the set around a vocal performance that trips from harsh, guttural groans in the industrial opening section, to cloud-punching joyful euphoria and heraldic quasi-religious chorals, all the way to fractured trance-pop and emotional ambient. Anyone who's seen bod DJ won't be too surprised, "Live in Paris" has a disregard for structure and genre that feels stylistically lashed to the artist's haphazard mixing methodology.

Genre is nowhere to be found on the half-hour recording - it's just not necessary for bod's narrative, instead re-shaping cultural forms - pounding dance music, abrasive noise - to tell a disquieting narrative that's mapped out more precisely in the oblique press release. Religion, history, citizenship and tensions between East and West are signaled to and drawn out in vivid colors. It's quite the ride.

Tracklist:
1 01. bod [包家巷] - Live @ Underscope 20012020 (32:27)