Where is the Fire?, by Blindnight

Where is the Fire?

by Blindnight

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1.	Everybody Likes to Die Sometimes 02:32	buy track
2.	Fever w/ Disco Puppet 03:36	buy track
3.	Fruity Pie w/ Ustad Kitty 02:30	buy track
4.	Goldflake 03:01	buy track
5.	Magic Maybe 01:56	buy track
6.	Hardproblem 02:58	buy track
7.	Tobacco Juice 02:55	buy track

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Blindnight aka Suren Makkar has been closely associated with Consolidate in various capacities for a few years now: a designer, occasional performer, and a collaborator.

Where is the fire? is his first release for the label.

The EP at its core is a beat tape, rough around the edges, built on sample driven instrumental hip-hop aesthetics, where the coherent and absurd go hand in hand, the rigid and free collide, humour and meditation take turns to upstage each other. Blindnight’s choice of sounds and samples are always those that have vocal character. Manic laughter in ‘Everybody likes to die sometimes’ paints the city at night into a hardboiled soundscape. ‘Magic maybe’ is made complete with a catlike femme fatale.

Makkar also enjoys creating contrast that lead to absurd situations. Ustad Kitty’s social commentary on beauty culture in ‘Fruity Pie’ is complimented by the easter egg that is bit of the theme from Bojack Horseman. The stretched out scream juxtaposing the baby’s gurgle in ‘Fever’ (which features Disco Puppet’s ghostly vocals) has a sense of horror as well as comedy.

Where is the Fire? sounds like a series of handmade ransom notes made out of cut out letters from different magazines and newspapers. Makkar employs a visual, almost collage-like approach to making music where the designer and the producer merge, break boundaries and even compromise. As Suren jumps from motif to motif, the common thread becomes Makkar’s ability to displace sounds from the musical and sonic contexts - creating a soundtrack that sounds like a post 3AM youtube binge.

Blindnight Links
www.facebook.com/blindnight800
soundcloud.com/blindnight800
www.instagram.com/makkarman

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released November 19, 2017

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