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Rise Like Emerald Serpents by Dual Dialect

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Album Title: Wild Plants Cover the Abandoned Nuclear Site
Label: 4000 Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 00:22:40

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About the Album

This is an EP cut from Dual Dialect’s debut release. All the tracks on the EP tread the line of disintegrated beats with abstract horns and winds embedded with contorting ambience. It’s very interesting stuff and this is the closes “jazz” track on the EP. Here’s the EP spiel (thanks for listening/considering): orming in 2025, the Meanjin duo features saxophone/woodwind player Andrew Garton (Ghostwoods, The Francis Wolves, The Scornful Four), alongside Andrew Foley (Grids/Units/Planes, YEARNS). Together, their music combines glitchy, downbeat electronica with the fringes of jazz. Dual Dialect’s first EP, 'Wild Plants Cover the Abandoned Nuclear Site', evokes a strange narrative. Saxophone melodies unfurl like strange vines and beats crumble like decaying concrete structures. The instrumental EP abstractly explores themes of Pripyat, Ukraine. In 1986, the city was poisoned from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and then deserted. Today, nature has reclaimed the ruins, with green plants and wildlife engulfing the industrial landscape. In our contemporary backdrop with oppressive leaders, divisive politics, and oligarchic systems - cultivating organic forms of creativity and resistance are essential. Dual Dialect’s music embodies this ethos; blurring raw, glitch-hop beats and manipulated brass/woodwind melodies into untamed, meandering soundscapes of defiance and renewal.

Tracks

Emerging from Isotopes; Strange Gardens Grow; Rise like Emerald Serpents; Framed Destruction; Pripyat Transfigured

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Date featured

June 16, 2025

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