Keeping away from people pretending to be others is the best! In terms of art, having very little knowledge of and/or almost zero interaction with the person trying to establish a variety of other aliases (especially in the music community) is SO healthy in terms of opinion and listener interaction. People can get very worked up about their aesthetic privacy, no matter how far you’ve figured out their shtick too. Thus, in the case of Brasil World Cup 2034, I only really know where wosX lives, and that wosX is the owner of Antifur, which I respect in terms of reappropriating “world music” — considering the variety of post-indigenous, out-of-body creativity being presented, while keeping far away from the label or owner’s Twitter pages (because that just spoils it all, y’all… keep clicking refresh on the Bandcamp).
Anyhow, since the gathering at End of World Race last year, wosX continues to impress on the levels of heavy production, haunting calibration, expert scaling, and skewed harmonies in Brasil World Cup 2034. And its literally topical. Like, I remember 2014 Brazil World Cup, watching it in a tiny box on the corn of my work computer, or in Atlantic City after being out in the ocean smoking joints all day on an inner-tube, going into a bar that’s on the brink of being evicted, viewing matches upon a tube-television, rooting for countries we don’t live in to WIN, staying the whole week in an abandoned casino, developing dark circles under all our eyes while laughing together and vomiting onto the beach off the boardwalk, apple pipes, talking to a cardboard cut-out of Trump in the trash next to a casino of his that’s foreclosing, etc. So, reconvene 20 years from now? Maybe.
Brasil World Cup 2034 is also proof that Dream Catalogue is unstoppable in keeping their ears open toward the atmospheric and world building. An umbrella entity that provides an open world for each release they dabble and publish. I only wish I knew about the Dream Catalogue radio station prior to 2014 in Atlantic City. But there’s always Brasil World Cup 2034. You can grip it on the reel too, as it’s (barely) still available physically. Scope below:
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