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COUNTER 034LP
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Magna Pia, aka seasoned producer, DJ, and composer Hüseyin Evirgen, announces his second full-length album, QUT, arriving on Inland's Counterchange label. After two steamrolling EPs of club tracks on the label -- now entering its tenth year of action -- Magna Pia presents his most complete and advanced body of work to date, weaving a dense narrative of drone, figurative synthesis, bass-heavy electronica, and abstract techno. Over eight tracks each referencing his rich cultural and musical background, you are treated to a unique overview of a producer at the crest of his art. The word "Qut" is an ancient positive affirmation, in one short word encompassing all that is scared, pure and good. The Old Turkic term meaning not only "good fortune" and "joy", but in shamanic circles, the "wonder of the heavens", permeates the roots of Evirgen's multi-heritage history. That Evirgen expresses his interpretation of this central theme through the marriage of bewitching melodies with atonal, experimental and rumbling electronics is a conscious comment on the distortions and mutations of our Modern Era. We now exist in the digital age of the Technosphere for better or worse, and must seek beauty where-ever possible. The opening "Prologue" invites the listener into a futuristic yet organic sound world, where lush stereo processing goes hand in hand with rumbling bass and subtly detuned drone languages. From the echoes of traditional Uyghur folk music, translated via synthesizers into a glistening slowdiving opus ("Qizil"), to churning dub-techno adorned with a symphony of evolving sine-waves ("Venus M"), Evirgen then deploys "X" -- a haunting experimental piece composed predominantly with his voice and electronic processing. The interweaving synth lines of "Gudanna" pierce the fog with a radiant and transcendent club techno bounce before the ode to the ancient Bronze Age goddess "Astarte" unfolds its snare-driven broken-beat formations. The title track "Qut" embodies by far the heaviest club track of the album, in a deadly, stripped-back moment of future-techno hypnotism. Dancing flames of purple-tongued synthesis are held (just) in line by a wonderfully tough throb of drums. With his "Epilogue", Magna Pia allows the spectral ideas and concepts laid out across the LP to connect and travel full circle, confirming our suspicions that this could be one of the most coherent and exciting works to emerge in the brave new field of introspective, and sensitive techno-electronic language.
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Up next on Arcing Seas is Magna Pia with his second EP after his 2016 debut Incantations on Counterchange (COUNT 007EP). Behind the alias is Hüseyin Evirgen, one half of Cassegrain. ARCS-05 has a clear focus of providing combative dancefloor trips, unorthodox sonic moods with subtle '90s techno references. The EPs track titles "Artemisia", "Semiramis", and "Akasha" pay tribute to three mighty ancient heroines of very different origins. Consequently, Magna Pia continues his interest in combining techno tracks with archaic symbolism.
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Incantations is the debut EP from Magna Pia - a solo project by Cassegrain member Hüseyin Evirgen. As Magna Pia, he introduces his own very personal image of techno - rich, textural and full of detail. Characterized by the kind of programming and nuances that only experienced, musically-trained producers are capable of, it offers a strong narrative throughout - from the low slung melodic churn of opening track "Dhul" to the mutant acid of "Nyx" at its epitaph. Over four tracks with four very different moods, Incantations is a masterclass in hardware only, high-end electronics - weird, melodic, hypnotic, banging.
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