Elvin Brandhi | OWsT (LP, White)

Big Tip! Xing presents the new LP OWsT by Elvin Brandhi, eighteenth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, including a collector's edition of 20 copies, each featuring bespoketalismans, painted by the artist in squid ink, to be worn as patches or kept safe somewhere to ward off misanthropists.

OWsT is a vociferous attempt to Shout The Self Out. Elvin Brandhi, artist and poet propelled by constant nomadic rupture in both art and life, screams her mind to explore the urgent contradictions of self and world, of language and meaning, relentlessly unlearning at the edge of words. In OWsT she extrudes her limbic dissidence keeping a raw tension through chaos, where the fumbling find its stratum of empowerment and can become more than its forlorn wondering: 

LanGuAGE! ContinuES to BE a FRantic FOCUS WHich CAN ONLY BenefIT from Internal ASSAULT. 
I try to OUT all of the words inside the HEAD. 
The struggle to articulate necessitates violence, bursts of inclination, gestures of intent that supersedes the capacity to express coherently. 
OWsT as a pretext for the form to disgorge, comfort zone extinguished awe against a lore. 
I am not I am KNOT. JOWST THE OWST OUT  OWST THE CELL”F OWT!

OWsT originates from a live recording session at Raum, Xing’s space in Bologna. Recorded on tape and re-manipulated by the artist several times, more than a transcription of the expulsion process (literally ‘oust’, poetically and phonetically ‘owst’) the album is a ‘retrospective spell’ where tensions and indecisions, resistances, deviations and relapses constitute the process of the archaeologist attempting to retrieve from sight the mangled contents of what poured out. Listening to Elvin Brandhi’s music can offer a chaotic and overwhelming experience.