Tribal Progressive Heavy Metal, by Normal Nada the Krakmaxter

Tribal Progressive Heavy Metal

by Normal Nada the Krakmaxter

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New Music Jason This album is my Feature Pick for the week ending 06/16/23 on my New Music page:

newmusicjason.wordpress.com/2023/06/16/the-new-music-im-listening-to-in-all-earnest-this-week-june-10-16-2023/ Favorite track: Tribal Progressive Heavy Metal.

IOTA Album of the year!! One billion <3 Favorite track: Dedicado ao sem abrigo esperanca ou quando a esperanca morre.

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1.	Beautiful Chaos 03:57	buy track
2.	Batida 8 02:26	buy track
3.	Batida Hard Trance 2 03:17	buy track
4.	Batida 2 Dance 02:27	buy track
5.	Tribal Progressive Heavy Metal 03:41
6.	Batida 27 03:15	buy track
7.	Nai Na Chi 03:00	buy track
8.	Alive 03:37	buy track
9.	Batida 28 02:33	buy track
10.	Dedicado ao sem abrigo esperanca ou quando a esperanca morre 04:51	buy track

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One of the most eccentric characters to emerge from Lisbon's musical underground, Teteu has operated under a variety of shadowy monikers including Qraqmaxter, CiclOFF, and Erre Mente. A gifted visual artist as well as a composer, he's known for developing a philosophical mythology with his drawings, mostly using a ballpoint pen to sketch out elaborate, anime-style projects. Normal Nada is Teteu's most enduring project, and a full eight years after the game-changing ep "Transmutação Cerebral" he has finally assembled his long-awaited debut album.

"TRIBAL PROGRESSIVE HEAVY METAL" materializes into Nada's meta-kuduro multiverse, developed from his deep knowledge of African and Portuguese musical forms. Years ago, he was an established archivist and genre historian, sharing archival material, mixes and rips alongside his original tracks, and while his online presence has faded, his rate of production hasn't. His tracks are rooted in Angolan kuduro and tarraxinha structures, but Normal Nada uses this only as a starting point, poetically overlaying and superimposing elements from trap, bass music, heavy metal and ambient sources to tell a story that's personal and unique.

Listening to the album is like channel hopping through an interplanetary animated matrix, blasting off from colorful opener 'Beautyful Caos' with its grinding syncopation, crash-landing on the subversive 'Batida Hard Trance 2' that dissolves awkward European dance tropes into industrial-strength Portuguese electronix, and scuttling towards the album's bizarre title track, that juxtaposes crunching, overdriven drones 'n tones with kinetic kuduro rhythms. 'Alive' is even more cacophonous, layering machine-strength orchestral hits over militaristic, rolling 4/4 beats and unsettled subs.

Born and raised in the Republic of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, Normal Nada migrated to Portugal at 13 and was based for many years in Lisbon's San Antonio Dos Cavaleiros housing projects, after previously having lived in the Algarve. Teteu's compositions are a spiked expression of Lisbon's patchwork of batida styles, making a direct link to West Africa's vibrant musical legacy. Now he's returned to Guinea-Bissau and his music reflects this outstretched knowledge and energy, with a 360 degree view of the world's complex assemblage of cultures and conflicts.

The album's somber finale is the best representation of his philosophy, a minor-key downtempo slow-burner that could sit comfortably alongside Actress or tarraxinha pioneer DJ Znobia. Called 'Dedicated to the Homeless', it shines flickering neon light on the world's unseen population, searching for hope where too many of us choose to look away.

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released June 16, 2023

Artwork - Normal Nada
Mastering - Declared Sound

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