DIE DIE BE and Dimitri Barbati‘s collaborative art-rock single “Erased Faces” delves into identity, conformity, and the tension between imposed identities and liberation. Industrial textures, insistent rhythms, and layered voices shape its experimental sound, extending the project’s visceral approach to electronic experimentation and theatrical performance.
A brief chuckle opens the track, before diving into a steady intertwining synth pulse and percussive presence. Warbly effects linger underneath, while a spoken-word vocal spontaneity emerges thereafter. “Faux terrain represents a reality to me of me to be a me,” Liliane Bürli unveils with heady precision, thematically exploring identity and its erosion by means of institutional, ideological, or societal pushes to conform. “Character and drive in the body, gone,” the lyrics arrive with especially compelling qualities, capturing that erosion of self-identity.
The track then expands into an embrace of spacey electronic frequencies, sturdy rhythmic bolstering, and overall hypnotic atmospherics, before the spoken delivery returns. “Material distraction ruins spirits, spirits make dumb,” Bürli delivers with ghostly, multi-layered intrigue, asking “are you with me, still there with me?” thereafter, as if questioning the soul’s existing presence following tumult and attempts at external interference. A delectably avant-garde electronic art-rock production melds with resonating themes of identity and willpower, making for a memorable output from DIE DIE BE and Dimitri Barbati.
Photo Credit: Bujar Berisha – Middle of Switzerland
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
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