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by muqdisho

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Zugzwang is a compilation of songs I have been playing around from the end of 2020 to the summer of 2022. Sometimes they start with a weird texture. Sometimes they are shaped by the tape loops I make and the remaining sounds in them.

The name of this album came from the feeling I have about making music lately. It seems like every action I take makes things slightly worse. It started with the pandemic and social isolation. It got worse when one of my cats died, and getting covid didn't make anything easier.

But I wanted to rerelease something. So, here it is.

A few years ago, when I started exploring tape loops more, I started this personal challenge where I would release an album every 135 days. Forcing myself to do this made sitting down and playing something easier. To make things simpler to keep track of, I scheduled dates on my calendar, and today is the day to share Zugzwang.

Visually speaking, the images came from a Sunday walk in a cemetery close to my house here in Berlin. This is what the Alter Luisenstädtischer Friedhof looks like through a Soviet Smeina camera and a Revolog film.

Let there be drone.

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released September 11, 2022

Zugzwang was recorded in several different sessions between late 2020 and July 2022 at Casa dos Três Porquinhos in Berlin, Germany.

Produced, recorded, mixed, art direction, and everything else by Felipe Tofani.

Baphomet, Zé, Natasha, Bartô, and Nergal, sorry for all the noise. Thanks to Camila for her patient support. And Ciaran, thanks for using my music in your videos; it means a lot.

For Baphomet who wouldn’t care about any of this (2009-2022)


Zombi, Pye Corner Audio, Emma Ruth Rundle, Lucrecia Dalt, Author & Punisher, Disasterpeace, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe. Without you, this wouldn’t exist.

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muqdisho Berlin, Germany

MUQDISHO is harsh. But it is without aggression. It is bleak, but it is without fear. With it, Tofani yields the desire for relatability in favor of a faithful portrait of what it feels like to allow oneself to just free-fall into existence.

In somewhat direct & press-oriented words, MUQDISHO is the bleak, noisy, ambient head of a sound spear solely wielded by Felipe Tofani.
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