vinyl 12" LP | Pierre Bastien & Michel Banabila - Baba Soirée

"You can imagine this music accompanying a masked performance of sound poetry in a Zurich cafe at some point between the wars, but after a while you find yourself settling into something mesmeric and hypnotic, because Banabila merges aspects of sound design and collaged samples with Bastien's Don Cherry-esque improvisations into a true fusion of the ambient and glitchy." (The Wire)

Release info:
Two visionary maestros, Pierre Bastien and Michel Banabila, unite in their first collaborative album, Baba Soirée. The veterans of electronic music bring their unique expertise to the table, resulting in a captivating fusion of experimental styles. Bastien’s mechanical loops and fantastic instrumental setups merge seamlessly with Banabila's sound design and impeccable skills of sampling collages. It's not a dance party, nor is it an avant-garde intervention. It's a soirée: a cultivated evening of sonic alchemy hosted by these two charismatic gentlemen.

Pierre Bastien is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a background in French literature. He has spent decades crafting an idiosyncratic world of experimental sound with his self-built mechanical orchestra Mecanium. It was most notably...  mehr

veröffentlicht am 27. Oktober 2023


All music composed by Pierre Bastien and Michel Banabila
Recorded in Rotterdam and Valencia
Produced by Michel Banabila
RotoMotor (Erbil Mix) featuring Salar Asid
Mastering and vinyl cut by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering
Cover photos by the artists
Cover design by TEOTH
Pingipung 083
(c) & (p) 2023 Pingipung
LC 09304Lizenz