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The 10 tracks that make up Perennial Propaganda put forward an holistic understanding of the tropic that goes beyond the paradisiacal and touristy notions by which this region tends to be depicted.
For OVSICORI, “Tropic” means intensity; it’s a word that transports to dense environments of colliding sonic textures and unexpected emotions. From the menacing polyrhythms in opener Fruta de Pan, stopping by the dissonant crescendo of Coco, and going all the way to the enveloping cosmic drone of “Axiote”, the setting is fully inhabited through the imagined musical universes of local perennial plants, which gave name to the album’s central conceit: An electronic testament to botany and alternative agricultural practices.
The project was mostly recorded amidst the exuberant flora of Costa Rica’s Caribbean, and directly incorporates on-location registers of natural atmospheres intertwined with OVSICORI’s own impressionistic digital renderings. By existing in a liminal space between the worlds of field recording and punchier electronic music, the multi-layered compositions of Perennial Propaganda rethink the ways in which our relationship with the organic world can be represented. The songs are vibrant aural retellings that engage our senses in a primordial manner, well beyond the rigidness of scientific framing or the tenuous links of symbolism.
3D animation: Lucía Howell
Photography: Naza Quirós
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