TIM.EXP-019 - Farida Amadou & Pavel Tchikov - Mal de terre - CS

MAL DE TERRE by Farida Amadou & Pavel Tchikov “MAL DE TERRE” is the first collaboration between Belgium-based bassist Farida Amadou & guitarist Pavel Tchikov. Roughly translated, “MAL DE TERRE” means “earth sickness”, or a kind of nausea one feels when connecting back to land after a long journey at sea (Tchikov also adds “It might also be construed as a nostalgic memory of a forsaken land.”), and certainly, a feeling of unease is threaded through the cassette’s two sides. Using bass, looped guitar, electronics & tape echo, the duo of Amadou & Tchikov channel the “ Désorientation”, or “disorientation” - something like “culture shock,” (for those times when culture shock isn’t enough to capture what you’re feeling) - and nervous excitement for a new place, coupled with homesickness & frustration for the old place, often attributed to “decountryfication”. Tchikov explains, “…It’s a spontaneous take on nostalgia of forsaken personal roots. We’ve both left our native c