released February 8, 2024
black 7" vinyl. cardboard sleeve with full colour & glossy uv print. incl. and 4 art prints. digital download-code.
META MEAT keeps adventuring on its peculiar unique path, pursuing its journey further in its self-invented world. step by step, stone by stone, record after record, meta meat visits some strange imaginary lands which are inhabited by odd rituals and enlivened with vivid dances.
this first 7" vinyl ep for ant-zen is a new chapter built again on mm’s dominant percussive instrumental abilities, using the tones and colours of varied hand drums, elaborating intricate rhythmic combinations which remain the source of their research and the foundation of their compositions.
this time in this ep called 'voices', each one of the four musical pieces is featuring lead vocal samples of different characters, issued from various cultures of our world. some of these voices articulate the clamour of rebellion, some whisper the poetry of nature, other evoke a spiritual quest or chant their ancient tales…
with this new release, META MEAT is giving voice and space to some authentic inspiring voices, no longer muzzled or invisible.
crédits
paru le 8 février 2024
META MEAT. hue [official video]
youtu.be/BfsvXY_lge0
somekilos: hand percussions, drums, electronic
phil von: electronic, sampling, field recordings, production
mixed at skamp studio vilnius
mastered by norscq
photos by thekla winzen
model: jules is jules
artwork by stefan alt
this is ant-zen act471
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LIVE:
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REVIEWS:
ALTERNATION (PL)
alternation.eu/meta-meat-voices,id,1608,recenzje.html
Meta Meat is a project as original in its sound as it is theatrical. After the well-received album 'Infrasupra,' it's time for a worthy successor. The EP 'Voices' is a true instrumental feast - the richness of the employed means and tools to achieve the final effect is breathtaking. The distinctive drums, inducing an almost ritualistic trance, are hypnotic and enchanting. The multitude of simultaneously flowing, ascending, and descending melodies, along with oriental and industrial notes, make 'Hue,' announcing 'Voices,' a truly magical journey of sensations and imagination, simultaneously attacking the senses. Huges Ücke and Phil Von have accustomed us to absolutely exceptional musical experiences, and this time is no different. Excellent material!
Author: khocico
Translator: khocico
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SOLÉNOPODE (FR)
solenopole.blogspot.com/2024/02/chronique-meta-meat-voices-ant-zen.html
Dans la galaxie musicale évolutive, META MEAT se profile comme un astre singulier, explorant les confins de son univers auto-créé avec une détermination inflexible. Chaque sortie du duo constitue un nouveau chapitre dans son périple, dévoilant des terres imaginaires parsemées de mystères et de rituels captivants.
Leur dernier opus, le premier EP vinyle pour le label allemand Ant-Zen, baptisé "Voices", nous entraîne plus profondément dans les méandres de leur création artistique. S'appuyant sur leur maîtrise des percussions, META MEAT tisse des rythmes complexes à partir d'un éventail varié de tambours à main, créant ainsi une toile rythmique vibrante et hypnotique qui sous-tend leurs compositions.
Dans "Voices", chaque piste est portée par des échantillons vocaux provenant de différentes cultures et évoquant une gamme d'émotions et de récits. Certaines voix expriment la rébellion, d'autres murmurent des poèmes de la nature, tandis que d'autres encore invoquent des quêtes spirituelles ou chantent des contes anciens. Avec ce disque, META MEAT offre une tribune aux voix authentiques et inspirantes, leur donnant une visibilité nouvelle et un espace pour résonner. Le duo nous transporte ainsi à travers quatre histoires rituelles néo-archaïques/électro-ethniques, où les instruments acoustiques se marient harmonieusement aux échantillons bruts et aux textures électroniques sophistiquées. Chaque morceau est une invitation à l'aventure, une plongée dans un univers sonore exaltant et original.
Somekilos (alias Hugues Ücke, moitié de 2kilos andMore) et Phil Von (co-leader de Von Magnet) unissent leurs forces pour façonner l'identité sonore de META MEAT. Leur collaboration incarne la fusion entre la chair et la transcendance, entre le physique et le métaphysique. Leurs performances envoûtantes mêlent percussions organiques et sons électroniques, créant une musique à la fois primitive et futuriste, profondément ancrée dans le présent.
Avec « Voices », META MEAT démontre une fois de plus sa capacité à repousser les frontières de la musique électronique, offrant à son public une expérience sensorielle immersive et inoubliable. Que vous soyez un explorateur de nouveaux sons ou un amateur de rituels sonores, cet EP vous transporte vers des contrées musicales inexplorées, où la magie opère à chaque note !
Olivier Lehoux - (Fév 24)
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OBSKÜRE DIGITAL MEDIA (FR)
www.facebook.com/obskure.mag.fan
META MEAT | "HUE" (VIDEO)
À l'heure où sort chez ant-zen 'Voices', le nouveau format court de Meta Meat (alias Phil Von de Von Magnet + somekilos), le binôme dévoile une nouvelle vidéo : "Hue", de désert, d'immensité, de percussions, de voix, de lumière. Une musique qui vous emporte, crescendo irrépressible, et une vidéo à découvrir ci-dessous.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfsvXY_lge0
- (Fév 24)
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PRÉMONITION (FR)
www.premo.fr/information/Meta-Meat-presente-la-video-de-Hue-extrait-de-son-nouvel-EP-Voices/8219
Meta Meat présente la vidéo de "Hue" extrait de son nouvel EP "Voices"
Nous étions sans nouvelles de Meta Meat, le projet commun de Hugues Villette (2kilos &More) et de Phil Von (Von Magnet) depuis la sortie de leur second et excellent album "Infrasupra" en septembre 2021. Voici le duo de retour avec "Voices", un EP sorti la semaine dernière sur le label Ant-Zen, au format 7" et en édition forcément limitée, à découvrir en suivant le lien ci-dessous. "Hue", le premier titre du disque, a bénéficié d'une vidéo diffusée ci-dessus.
par Bertrand Hamonou
publié le lundi 12/02/2024
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VOX EMPIREA - DARK REVIEWS (IT)
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067611455538
by Max - (Fév 24)
Meta Meat is a collaborative duo-act founded in 2014 by French musicians Hugues Villette - aka the solo-act Somekilos - ( electronics / drums / percussions / acoustic instruments / vox ) plus the flamenco dancer, singer, performer and composer Phil Von ( electronics / drums / percussions / acoustic instruments / noises / vox ) with the intent on creating a unitary design with which to express an original electronic sound that possessed the following concept described by Phil as:
> "Both in touch with a true organic energy and with a perception of a transcendence".
The two protagonists come from experiences gained within projects - most of them French - belonging to various musical genres: Hugues was part of the Abstract, Electro, Post Rock band called [1] Kilo Of Black Bondage, of the Electro / Post Rock duo / Industrial / Experimental 2kilos & More, of the Krautrock / Noise / Post Rock / Ambient ensemble My Own and of the 'electro-flamenco' troupe Von Magnet, while Phil, as well as playing in the Von Magnet, was member of the Spanish IDM / Electro / Experimental platform Kònic Thtr and of the French 'remixing-arranging Von Magnet tracks' project named Spies Under Von Magnet Influence. The 'Meta Meat' effigy conceptually connects the origin of the 'meat' element to the overcoming of the 'meta', ideally illustrating the physicality of an act that moves body and soul into a higher dimension of liberation, knowledge and ecstasy that cancels basic instinctive nature inherent in Man.
This is how Hugues describes the birth of the project:
< "At the very end of 2014, I suggested to Phil that we should do a band where everything could be simpler, spontaneous and quicker than a troupe like Von Magnet was (without any negative ulterior motive) - both in terms of composition and live performance. As Phil was & is always very busy, I had to find a 'valid' reason to launch the project. So I contacted Gandi at the Elektroanschlag Festival in Altenburg in Germany and simply said to him: "You know 2kilos & More ( we 've already played at his festival ), you know Von Magnet, now we're putting together a duo with Phil, would you be interested in having us play? But on the other hand, I don't have anything for you to listen to or show". He thought about it and said yes. From that point on, we had less than two months I think to compose 45 minutes of music to play live, in April 2015… we didn't yet have the name Meta Meat". >
Since its foundation, Meta Meat's sound can be described as an ultra-modernized transposition of the evocative and ancestral sonances of Electro-Tribal, combined with the technologically minimal, experimental and stratified structures of Electro-Industrial: the result is an electronic-acoustic danceable, atmospherical music, predominantly instrumental, ritual and charged with powerful tribal-ethnic references, played through a voluminous presence of physical and artificial archaic midtempo-downtempo percussiveness, vibrant bass-lines, pulsing sequencer intermittences, transversal melodies of keyboards and laptops - almost entirely in the form of extended pads - and essential synthetic effects. Episodically, the songs may contain vocal samples of 'lost tribes' from remote lands of the world, or short sections of real chant belonging to Hugues or to Phil, more used in live performances.
This is how Phil sums up Meta Meat's music conceptually:
< We are not intellectualising anything, all our themes are inspired by our instinct and intuitions and mostly following a rhythmic research.
Meat Meat should be organic and stay somehow raw / raw, close to a body energy, although filled with a sense of a higher conscience, like in all tribal cultures." >
Meta Meat's discography mentions the following releases:
"Metameat" - debut-album ( 2016 ) / label: Ant-Zen ( DE ) - Audiotrauma ( FR )
"Infrasupra" - album ( 2021 ) / label: Ant-Zen ( DE ) - Le Label Beige ( FR )
"Voices" - EP ( 2024 ) / label: Ant-Zen ( DE )
The four tracks of the EP "Voices" thematically deal with the search for freedom, exploring electronic soundscapes even more full of elements belonging to even more ancient and remote populations, sonances that symbolically give 'voice' of that invisible and unknown part of Humanity who cannot express his anger, poetry and basic feelings. The tracklist is a succession of engaging and rhythmically-electronically dynamic Tribal / Ambient / Industrial songs, capable of transporting and making the imagination wander to distant and unknown places, in which spirituality and the primordial essentiality of human nature come together, generating a triumph of communicative acoustics, full of suggestion, to be internalized immediately and which overcome space-time barriers.
Tracklist:
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"Hue" > The low midtempo electronic drumming cadences a powerful ritualistic dance rhythm, intertwining with the arpeggiated punctuations of the sequencing, the sampled male-female tribal voices and the silvery trails of the synths.
"Acute" > The introduction is a dark, minimal filament of midtempo drum-programming rhythm under which alienating and dilated noise can be heard: the subsequent development energizes the sound through more structured and linearly segmented midtempo tribalistic dance percussive scores, rhythmically surrounded by bright sequencer hatchings , exciting loop micro-sections of vocals and a male shamanic sampled chant.
"Worth" > In the opening, a leading female voice with sloganistic inflections - full of rage, protest and rebellion - proudly incites a chorus of other voices who respond from the crowd with the same fervent tones, prolonging this form of systematic shouting for the entire duration of the song; at the same time, artificial uptempo drum-beats from ancestral ceremonial inducing dance are expanded, adorned with sequenced bass-lines, by monochromatic flows of synths and by sampled ethnic counterpoints of chant and fragments of tribal phrases.
"Glow" > A seductive Tahitian female voice describes with spoken words constellations contemplated by her tribe, in a highly atmospheric sonic context created through soft downtempo electronic drumming, clangs of orchestral cymbals and a colorless low pad that acts as a single chord, over which a obsessive archaic chant in loop, sequenced beats, synthetic noise and pale keyboard melodies.
Conclusions:
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Emphatic, refined musicality, full of charm, magic and great scenic effect, that of the duo-act fully reaches the listener's senses, mesmerizing, magnetizing and dragging him into an imaginary sonic Universe composed of primordial danceability, tribal cultures, mysterious rites, odes to Nature, transcendence and ardent desire for subversion on the part of remote civilizations that have remained silent for too long. The drumming - the main column of the entire architecture of the project's tracks - stimulates the psyche by inducing hypnotic trance, while at the same time urging the body to a frenetic, all-encompassing movement, made more intense by the electronic, keyboard and vocal complements expertly inserted into the whole. "Voices" is an essential release for admirers of conceptual technological sound inspired by themes of fundamental human value: it encloses and metaphorizes in its essence all the words never uttered or ever heard by those who have no possibility of expressing themselves, pronouncing them with a liberating spirit and directly reaching the sensitivity of the aware listener. Top expressiveness and evocativeness, subtle energy that captures with surprising immediacy, open minded sonicity: this has always been the extraordinary 'Meta Meat effect'.
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OBSKÜRE (FR)
www.obskure.com/meta-meat-voices-ep-ant-zen-2024.html
Emmanuël Hennequin - (Fév 24)
Phil Von (Von Magnet) + Somekilos (2kilos &More) - nouvelles échappées chez ant-zen. Une musique vitale et qui vous transporte... où vous voulez...
Une musique du voyage. Un trip. Meta Meat, alliage percussif et synthèse d’ambiances, porte en lui un mouvement, une puissance rituelle. La substance, comme toujours, fait plus que vous inviter : elle vous happe par ses boucles, sa répétition. Les voix émergent mais ne narrent pas, elles incarnent une posture. Pas de repère narratif non, mais un fond, à notre sens, existentialiste : exister par ce que l’on fait, à la manière dont opèrent nos deux protagonistes principaux – et à la manière de ces voix qui chacune à leur façon, sans que l’on sache vraiment d’où elles viennent, prennent posture, dégagent aspiration. Le son est hypnotique, pictural, et du flot jaillit parfois l’intériorité ("Glow").
Somekilos (2kilos &More - percussions, batterie, électronique) et Phil Von (Von Magnet - électronique, sampling, field recordings, production) sculptent une matière d’évasion, ethnicité transportant les souffles de vie. Musique de machines et de mains, musique d’intuitions, musique de la condition humaine.
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SANCTUARY.CZ
sanctuary.cz/88746-meta-meat-navratovem-ep-zkoumaji-ruzne-podoby-lidskeho-hlasu
Pavel Zelinka - 30/03/24
Meta Meat na návratovém EP zkoumají různé podoby lidského hlasu
Francouzská dvojice se svou hudbou vyráží na cestu kolem světa.
Meta Meat - společný projekt dvou francouzských elektronických hudebníků a skladatelů: Somekilose a Phila Vona - jsme měli možnost obdivovat v Praze na Audiotrauma festu už v roce 2015. Už tehdy dvojice kombinovala temnou elektroniku s hromadou perkusivních a jiných nástrojů a snažila se docílit onoho propojení fyzična s přáním povýšit naši živočišnou jednoduchost k vyššímu vědomí bytí.
Po dvou albech a hrsti singlů se dvojice znovu hlásí o slovo s EPčkem "Voices". Klasický sound Francouzů, to znamená propletení elektroniky s perkusivní a industriální estetikou, je zde konfrontován s dalším výrazným elementem - hlasem. Každý ze čtyř hudebních kusů obsahuje hlavní vokální vzorky různých postav, pocházejících z různých kultur našeho světa. Některé z těchto hlasů vyjadřují křik vzpoury, některé šeptají poezii přírody, jiné symbolizují duchovní hledání nebo zpívají dávné příběhy…
EP vyšlo péčí vydavatelství Ant-Zen, a to 8. února 2024 v digitální podobě a limitované edici na sedmipalcovém vinylu. Obě varianty jsou dostupné níže, na Bandcamp profilu labelu.
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