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Blade Runner Zero

from Rotte Interrotte by Cemento Atlantico

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06 - Blade Runner Zero (ENG)

There are five continents in the world, and then there is India: a country plunged in extreme contradictions, a sort of huge film set of a chapter zero of Blade Runner. It was the beginning of Kartika (the 8th month of the Hindu calendar) and I soon immersed myself in the magic of Pushkar, a sacred city born from the hands of Brahma. Thar camel drivers sprucing up their "Desert Ships" and wandering to Pushkar for the "Kartik Mela": 200,000 people, a market of 50,000 camels, stilt walkers and snake charmers. Incredible as it was, all this excitement was just the sideshow of a religious event that comes to life on the nights of full moon on the Ghat: a collective bath in the lake to purify oneself from sin, followed by a ritual with chanting prayers called Maha Aarti (adoration with fire). One of the most intense ceremonies I’ve ever attended.
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Voices and percussion of groups of musicians from the deserts of Rajasthan and neighboring Afghanistan were recorded during camel auctions. The outro of Blade Runner Zero was recorded on the last evening of Kartik Mela on the Pushkar Lake Ghat. Maha Aarti is a devotional Hindu ritual. The priest moves clockwise around the effigy of a tray with a lamp, usually with five wicks soaked in camphor and other objects, such as sacred ash, tulasi leaves, kumdum powder, flowers. The culminating moment of the adoration is the one in which camphor is burned, with its bright light and intense perfume. The gesture of the offering of fire takes place by placing the hands on the flames and then bringing them to the face and it’s accompanied by mantras sung and performed in praise of the divinity. Since camphor leaves no residue, its flame symbolizes both the incarnation of divinity and its transcendence of the bodily form.

06 – Blade Runner Zero (ITA)

Al mondo ci sono cinque continenti, e poi c’è l’India: un paese impregnato di contraddizioni, una sorta di enorme set cinematografico di un capitolo zero di Blade Runner. Era l’inizio del Kartika (l’ottavo mese del calendario Hindu) e presto mi immersi nella magia di Pushkar, città sacra nata dalla mano di Brahma. I cammellieri di Thar agghindavano le loro “Navi del deserto” e peregrinavano verso Pushkar per il “Kartik Mela”: 200.000 persone, un mercato di 50.000 cammelli, trampolieri e incantatori di serpenti. Per quanto incredibile, tutto questo fermento era solo lo spettacolo di contorno di un evento religioso che la sera di luna piena prendeva vita sul Ghat: un bagno collettivo nel lago per purificarsi dai peccati, seguito da un rito di preghiera canora detto Maha Aarti (adorazione con il fuoco). Una delle cerimonie più intense alle quali abbia mai assistito.

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Le voci e le percussioni appartengono a gruppi di musicisti provenienti dai deserti del Rajasthan e dal vicino Afghanistan registrati durante le aste di cammelli. L’outro di Blade Runner Zero è stata registrata durante l’ultima sera di Kartik Mela sul Ghat del Lago di Pushkar. Il Maha Aarti è un rituale induista devozionale. Il sacerdote si muove in senso orario attorno all’effige di un vassoio con una lucerna, di solito con cinque stoppini imbevuti di canfora e altri oggetti, come cenere sacra, foglie di tulasi, polvere di kumdum, fiori. Il momento culminante dell’adorazione è quello in cui si brucia la canfora, con la sua luce vivida e il suo profumo intenso. Il gesto dell’offerta del fuoco si svolge ponendo le mani sulle fiamme e portandole al viso, è accompagnato da mantra cantati ed eseguiti in lode della divinità. Poiché la canfora non lascia residui, la sua fiamma simboleggia tanto l’incarnazione della divinità quanto il suo trascendere la forma corporea.

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from Rotte Interrotte, released August 2, 2021

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Cemento Atlantico Cesenatico, Italy

A project by the Italian DJ/producer Alessandro “ToffoloMuzik” Zoffoli, born from the need to translate the travel experiences  into music. Kidnapping field recordings from nature, history, road and sacred places. Emotions engraved in the mind with occasional recording means, subsequently manipulated through electronics creating a truly unique and contemporary sound and of cultural melting-pot. ... more

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