TRACKLIST
A1. Olivia Salvadori, Coby Sey, Kid Million – With All The Senses, Su Di Te M’Infrango
A2. upsammy – Programming
A3. Sepehr – Divooneh
A4. Levente – Read It
A5. Ece Eren, Stefan Prokop – Love Street no. 90
A6. Ben Bertrand – What To Do With My Male Body
A7. The Spy – Paradox
A8. Filmmaker – Broken Power Gloves
A9. Christos Chondropoulos – The Spell
A10. Zona Utopica Garantita – Loop Kraut
B1. Christos Chondropoulos – Love Song
B2. Galina Ozeran – Dvizhenie
B3. Lamusa II – Le Rêve (feat. Vittoria Totale)
B4. Solid Blake – Nyx
B5. Laurel Halo – Waves Goodbye
B6. Anna Vs June – Mirrormom
17. Brainwaltzera – Scratch the Sir Face
B8. Frank Rodas – Dial Up
B9. Black Dot – The Rainbow Children
B10. Anpanman – Adjustic High
B11. Fluctuosa – Lamponi
In 2022, Osàre! Editions founder Elena Colombi approached artists and musicians with a prompt: Every body, everyone needs love to flourish. In her book The Will to Change, the eminent author and social activist, Bell Hooks, invites men to excavate their innermost selves, challenging the way that patriarchal society limits their capacity for intimacy, tenderness, care and emotion. As hooks lays out, feminist thought and work requires the collective participation of all genders in order to realise a liberated world. How can we imagine cross-gender solidarity through music and art? And how can we tell sonic stories that facilitate our full potential as desiring beings? These are the questions that The Male Body Will Be Next starts out from.
The title of the record draws connections between hooks’ writing, a film by Rebecca Salvadori and Peter de Potter’s stunning photo series of the same name. In de Potter and Salvadori’s depictions, men’s bodies appear as vulnerable, naked and exposed.
Divided into two parts, the first instalment of The Male Body Will Be Next hinges on colliding energies – the melding of club dance floors and haunting ambient textures, agile techno and noisy experimentation.
‘The sun on my skin… it’s so warm and gentle,’ speak-sings Olivia Salvadori on ‘Su Di Te M’Infrango’, visualising utopias. Laurel Halo crafts a dreamscape spun from golden threads of synth and strings. Pensive and reflective, Ben Bertrand’s bass clarinet roams searchingly, its piercing tonality full of longing. Yet, in between these lucid, cinematic passages and spoken word, The Male Body Will Be Next finds space to dance together. Moving in fervent, rhythmic patterns, Sepehr’s ‘Divooneh’ pivots between tension and release. Filmmaker unleashes a wave of energy and The Spy delivers a potent take on vintage electro, the track title hinting at the double-bind of gendered expectations. Propelled between these eclectic styles, the record encapsulates the full spectrum of sonic expression.
