#Nexcyia

[radiophd]

nexcyia -- things fall apart

[dustedmagazine]

Nexcyia — Exodus (Haunter)

On his previous album Endless Path of Memory, French-American, Berlin-based producer Adam Dove AKA Nexciya explored the hold of individual memory. Now he deals with the collective as reimagines his family’s move from Texas to Los Angeles in the 1970s. Exodus works like an oral history in sound, the narrative non-linear, discursive and often concentric. Shrouded details emerge as memory gives them shape through transmission. Dove understands the power of the unedited text. The diversions, asides and previously suppressed or ignored moments take on significance through sharing. He treats his family’s story as both his and not his. Passed along as the ineffable fabric of shared experience in which each has their place, he also implicitly connects his family’s experiences to the afro-futurist project of reclaiming Black memory and history.

Exodus unfurls as an undulating fugue as Nexciya creates an impressionistic soundscape that flickers inward but is touched by the outside world. Divided into 13 discrete tracks, Exodus flows like a single piece. Prosaic titles —“pond,” “meadow,” “relic,” “tears,” “ocean,” — give scant clue to the evocative associations and connections of the music. Dove treats the landscape as a living entity animated by memory. He captures the hope and dread of the emigrant journey as well as the drifting attention of the travelers. Caught between the familiar and strange, haunted by memories and focused on dreams of better lives. His music has a mercurial, shapeshifting feel. It oozes and writhes free of structure. Layers of intricately mixed synths and drones, punctuated by both natural and man-made samples. The burble of water, the wind in all its variations, the chattering of birds and animals. Voices emerge, excited, fearful, imposing. We remember this is a Black exodus across a hostile land. Most of all, however, the sense of space, Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier beckons beyond the desert with its the one road towns rusting in the shimmering heat, beyond the rivers, forests, and mountains. Then finally the great thrumming metropolis blotting the way to the ocean. Exodus culminates in the 10 plus minutes of “lineage” in which Nexcyia adopts a more pointedly frictive approach to his material. Here we feel the fault lines of history, psychology, and topography chafing, picking at wounds. The drones emanate from deep in the earth, a voice laments, the shimmering higher registers give way to scrape and squeak. It’s part reckoning, part lament, part purge. A reminder that history and memory are entwined and we can never completely free ourselves from whence we came.

Andrew Forell

[iamlisteningto]

NEXCYIA’s Endless Path Of Memory

[jphilspace]

Nexcyia & mu tate - Sans Titre

[13melekradyo]

13 Temmuz 2024 tarihli program kaydı.

Güncel drone/ambient kayıtlarından bir seçki // A selection of recent drone/ambient recordings. Download.

01 – Marine Eyes – All You Give (For Ash) 02 – NEXCYIA – Things Fall Apart 03 – Tom James Scott – Blue Mist 04 – Stormy Acres – Scaped 05 – Galati – It Was So Bright, It Was Almost Blinding 06 – Kinbrae – Increasing Daylight 07 – Fortresses – Are 08 – Zoltan Fecso – Mangroves 09 – Sinke Düs – Vastatio 10 – KMRU – Natur (excerpt)

[morethanmoodmaking]

Saturday, 2 March 2024

Intro by Nexcyia

[mendingmusic]

POST-GEOGRAPHY W/ NEXCYIA

TRACKLIST

RACINE

Trois Cent Trent-Trois Lettres Imparfaites

PERILA

Nat's Poems (With Nat Marcus)

BRIN, JOSIAH STEINBRICK

Nitewalk

FLORIAN T M ZEISIG (EXPUGNANTIS mix)

Aspire (Remix)

NEXCYIA

Heading Into The Ocean With Tearful Eyes

SPACE AFRIKA

Version 2

ULTRAFOG

Scent

PENDANT

KVL-LWQ Feat. Pontiac Streator

ALL LIGHT HITS U

To Life

HOAVI

Sosnovka Voices

MISTER WATER WET

Walking West

NEXCYIA

Soak

PONTIAC STREATOR

Lamp Fest

[dustedmagazine]

Nexciya — Endless Path of Memory (Pensaments Sònics)

Whether deliberate or not, the name Nexciya immediately recalls the influential Detroit duo James Stinson and Gerald Donald AKA Drexciya. Any sonic similarities are oblique at best. Even at their most ambient, Drexciya put beats and an aquatic mythology in the foreground. Adam Dove’s work largely eschews the confines of tempo for a sound lusher, more evocative and inward looking. You can hear traces of Drexciya’s oceanic keyboard sounds and imagine their rhythms kicking along over parts of Endless Path of Memory, but Nexciya concentrates on blurring the boundaries between inner and outer worlds. Free from conventional, tempo driven structure, his tracks shimmer and mutate like mercury rolling across unstable topographies.

“My Eyes Looked Dull and Sunken” develops with haunted gravitas. The music seems always on the verge of losing balance, distant echoes of children’s voices and what sounds like a trudge through thick undergrowth playing against pure, elongated keyboard tones that sigh with despair. “Bury it Deep Inside Yourself” uses bass tones that dissipate and regather, a rumbling backdrop that ebbs and flows like an incoming storm heard from beneath thick blanket, which offers neither protection nor comfort. The mood is not entirely dark, however. The glacial arpeggios of “Things Fall Apart” evoke growth rather entropy, as do the samples of birdsong and running water that Dove uses as counterpoint to his motile drones. When does he use recognizable beats on “Tales” and “Replica” they fracture and disintegrate on the former and dissolve into granular quicksand on the latter. It’s as if the tracks have organically freed themselves from structure so to as pursue their freedom to roam, or escape. As a metaphor for our attempts to regiment and shape memory, it is central to Nexciya’s project.

Endless Path of Memory is an elegant and eloquent reflection on the obstinate power of memory and its vital role in shaping our relationship to ourselves and the outside world. Nexciya finds both despair and joy in its persistence and by foregoing conventional structures allows his music to mirror memory’s mercurial nature.

Andrew Forell

[dustedandsocial]

Dusted&Social EP #21 (3-17-24)

Pictured: Anne Gillis

Nexcyia - Tales Down Under - All Ords Schatterau - Unsichtbare Spuren Sunk Heaven - A Time 4 Relief Cuntroaches - I Can (Still) Tell You‘re (Scum) Hannya White - Silver Cowboy erin hopes - no idea where im (be)headed Mana Raven - Note On Reliquology Valentina Magaletti - NOIAZ Rat Filth - B2 Pure Shit - Cleansed Jad Atoui, Jawad Nawfal, Sharif Sehnaoui - Sends And Returns Alison Cotton - The Letter Burning Mårble & Dolphin Hospital - Alhanaidze Crazy End Anne Gillis - Il vous reste Billy Bultheel - Foot Soldiers of the Fold - Snow Cycle Slender - Decay With Grace

Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/dustedandsocial/dustedsocial-ep-21-3-17-24

[13melekradyo]

18 Mayıs 2024 tarihli program kaydı.

Güncel deneysel kayıtlardan bir seçki // A selection of recent experimental recordings. Download.

01 – Philippe Neau – Forêts Solitaires 02 – Chelidon Frames – _line Voyages 03 – Nexcyia – Intro 04 – Flora Yin Wong – All My Dreams Are Nightmares 05 – Leslee Smucker – Fixed Hills 06 – Julien Bayle – Attractor 1 07 – NPVR – Raw To The Core 08 – Pedro Vian – Uróboros 09 – Luka Aron – Coda: III I V XV (excerpt) 10 – Dave Seidel – Homage to Hennix (The Electric Harpsichord Reinterpreted) (excerpt)