#nexcyia

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nexcyia -- things fall apart

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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

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NEXCYIA ~ Endless Path of Memory

How does sound evoke or explore the experience of otherness or modern anxiety? Put another way, how does music that explores those themes sound? Endless Path of Memory, the inaugural solo project by Adam Dove who releases music under the name NEXCYIA, which claims to explore both states, offers one answer. All the familiar trademarks of synthetic sound are here: scratching and scraping…

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NEXCYIA’s Endless Path Of Memory

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Post-Geography w/ Nexcyia 27th January 2022

Playing Experimental, Ambient, Drone. Nick Malkin hosts Post-Geography, featuring ambient and atmospheric selections, live from the NTS stud

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