Dirty Beaches
Stateless
Zoo Music
Street: 11.04
Dirty Beaches = Colin Stetson / Zomes
Stateless is the instrumental follow up to Alex Zhang Hungtai’s impressive double LP released last year as Dirty Beaches. It consists of four songs and spans forty minutes with no drastic changes in mood, but with a lingering feeling of nothingness. Stateless takes me to a place that is free of associations and obligations, and it’s free of them by law, not by way of ignorance or dissatisfaction. Terms like drifter and lost in translation perfectly describe Hungtai’s cinematic instrumental style. Horn instruments resemble distant foghorns blowing through wet, ocean air, and synthesizers are used to the effect that they don’t register as electronic sounds, but more like organic noise being passed through the wind. Stateless reflects the collective feeling of those who don’t feel bound to any one place, and seek the permanent freedom of a place called nowhere. Get the album, and I’ll meet you there.
Video shot and edited by Alex Zhang Hungtai All footages shot on iphone 5s camera Title track for the upcoming album "Stateless" out Nov 4th, 2014 via ZOO MUSIC.