After the Future by Tetine - Slum Dunk [SDM020]

After the Future

Tetine

A 11 track electronic album (48m 53s) — released March 24th 2023 on Slum Dunk

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Tetine - After The Future (Slum Dunk Music 020)

After The Future is Tetine's new album - a 11 track electronic/experimental album to be released on March 24th 2023 on Slum Dunk Music. In this release, Tetine's Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner are joined by cellist Yoko Afi, who becomes a third member of the group and contributes with compositions, arrangements, vocals and additional keyboards.

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We've been writing new material as a trio since the first lockdown in the spring of 2020. 
An organic and electro-acoustic impulse that translates our need of self-archiving, re-inventing and auto-cannibalising Tetine's past, present and future in order to explore other aural landscapes and modes of composing intuitively, while at the same time, re-experiencing moments of our trajectory as a hybrid and diasporic music organism.

As an album, After The Future derives from our vinyl Music For Breathing – a respiratory, meditative, and improvisatory piece of DIY 
tropical-mutant-punk "chamber music" written for cello, voice, piano, organ, and electronics. Recorded during the intense period of heatwaves that hit London between July and August 2022, in a small studio set up in our apartment, this album comprises of 11 distinct yet complementary reflective tracks.

Sonically and lyrically, After The Future explores the fluxes, atmospherics and mutations of time and space, timbre, voice, and rhythm through themes/subjects such as hearing loss, menopause, memory, oppression, immigration, air pollution, disorientation, death, futures (and no-futures), mythologies, ecologies, anachronisms and digital capitalism. It builds an expanded suite of unexpected 
electro-acoustic textures by making use of repetition, minimalistic motives, simple melodies, processed vocals, chromatic harmonies, free counterpoint, and atonalism.

Conceived as an ode to the poetics of slowness, suspension, and unfitness, whilst echoing an unconditional love for Beckett's philosophical theatrics of existence, un-communicability and non-performance, the record explores the warmth, melodiousness and haunted fluidity of the cello in combination with beatless atmospheres in tracks such as "And Still The Earth", "Music For Breathing", "Inverno" and Always at War"), or through electronics and voice in "After The Future [Eldorado A Vapor"], "Spaced Out in Paradise", "No Fim Da História", "Disorder of Desire". It also includes a re-recording of "Três Tristes Tigres [Circe em Paz] by Brazilian underground post punk band Divergência Socialista, originally written by Bruno Verner and marginal poet Marcelo Dolabela in 1988.

After the Future evokes the exhaustive and current transitory moment we live in: a place and time where language runs out, communication and information lose their functions, sound, sense and meaning do not correspond. Facts do not correspond to contexts. Spaced Out in Paradise. The last degree of the structure, the 
loss of memory. The lost voice. A nausea. It responds to the vertigos experienced in contemporary polluted environments through political, social and philosophical mutations, whilst evoking the secret ontologies of objects and architectures around us, and their echoes and ethics.

The pieces you hear in this album were composed, arranged, and recorded with the joy and melancholy of "those who do not know and discover" as Brazilian poet and anthropophagist Oswald de Andrade would say. "Agile and candid as a child". In other words, "with the arrogance of a second childhood" as Derek Jarman once put it.

Tetine, London, December 2022


BIOGRAPHY

Tetine are formed by Brazilian musicians/artists Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado who have been living in Hackney in East London since 2000. The pair met in 1995 in Brazil while taking part in the local underground art post-punk scene of São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, and since then, they have been producing a multitude of singular works and actions through the hybrid universes of performance art, music, film / video and poetry. With more than 20 albums released by different record labels in Europe and Brazil (Soul Jazz Records, Slum Dunk, Mr Bongo, Bizarre Music) and several 12-inch singles and compilations, Tetine have been performing in festivals, art galleries, clubs, cinemas and theatres around the world, as well as making appearances on radio shows and devising hybrid and experimental projects around their music and art.

The duo's presentations, performances, films, installations or other actions have been shown in renowned institutions, museums and cultural venues including the National Museum of Contemporary Art & Sternessen Museum in Oslo, The Wire's Adventures In Modern Music in Chicago, Gorky Theatre in - Berlin, Barbican Centre in London, Venn Festival in Bristol, Serralves Museum in Porto, Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, Palais De Tokyo in Paris, Liverpool Biennial, Bordeaux Biennial, Triennale di Milano, Atelier Claus in Brussels, South London Gallery in London among many others.

Tetine have also been instrumental in bringing the Brazilian underground music scene to the attention of the UK for a number of years. The duo compiled, produced and mixed the first ever album of Baile Funk (Funk Carioca) outside of Brazil - Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca Mixed by Tetine, 2004 released on Mr Bongo Records, as well as the acclaimed The Sexual Life of The Savages - an essential primer to early-80s Post-Punk from São Paulo, released on Soul Jazz Records in 2006. More recently, Tetine have also self-released a new collection of obscure post-punk cassette tapes entitled Colt 45 – Underground Post Punk, Tropical Tapes, Lo-Fi Electronics & Other Sounds from Brazil (1983-1993) on their own label Slum Dunk Music.

For more information, complete biography here: www.tetine.net

What makes Tetine so good is that their off-beat, messy quality makes them natural, seemingly effortless, and therefore beautiful.” - Vanessa Labi Urb, Chicago

Ingested with their history in mind, Tetine feels as playful as it is relaxed - soundtracking an artistic project that wears its authenticity, confidence and continuing need for experimentation proudly on its sleeve. Less ‘we do not give a fuck’, more ‘we do not need to give a fuck’ - a crucial difference in a music market riddled with attitude, desperately seeking substance. - Stuart Buchanan Fat Planet

“As far back as 1995, Tetine were gaining notoriety via their experimental fusion of performance, video and sound. Although that kind of creativity is still essential to their output, they are now very much a band; one that effortlessly fuses post-punk with the sort of sounds associated with Os Mutantes and the bass-fueled anthems of the favelas”. - Danny MacFadden Metro

“Like peeling back the layers of an onion revealing a pungent core and a sense of a reducing one to very real tears Tetine make music that when fully explored reveals much more then one-liners over kooky beats.” - Princess Julia Pix

Tetine are Feminists, un-followers and inventors of their own scene; an uncut diamond. If Art is really dead, then Tetine belong to a - Chickens on Speed

Tetine are the two downright crazy Brazilians, Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado. Well, we can confirm the latter is off her box anyway. We've just seen a postcard of the pair posing outside UK supermarket Tesco; Bruno pushing a trolley in a beanie hat, Eliete stripped down to a gold sequined bikini and red lipstick. It's not so much the outfit that convinced us she's raving mad, or the fact that's she wearing it outside Tesco. It's because she's wearing this get-up in England. We're talking wet, windy and ferociously freezing. Superb! Blending electro with carioca funk and rap, this album is dirty, gritty and utterly underground. - Elle J Small F Magazine

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