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QSS presents : DAL de Vivre

by Quarantine Sonic Squad

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    + Press kit attached detailing the DAL's militant actions and artists contacts [FR + ENG]
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about

support french DAL "cancel rent" initiative here : www.loyersuspendu.org

[FR]

QUARANTINE SONIC SQUAD est une communauté de musicien-nes de différents horizons formels et stylistiques, rassemblé-es sous cette seule et même bannière suite aux mesures de confinement radicales prises par l'État français en réponse à l'épidémie de COVID-19.

L'idée derrière le projet "DAL DE VIVRE" est née de deux contextes spécifiques qui sont les conséquences directes de cette crise socio-sanitaire globale. Tout d'abord, cette situation nouvelle et extra-ordinaire de confinement (temporaire mais non moins nécessaire) qui nous a poussé toutes et tous en tant qu'artistes, interprètes, producteur-ices, instrumentistes, DJs et autre professionnel-les de la musique, à repenser notre activité professionnelle à l'aune d'un repli spatial forcé. Puis en un second temps, la situation plus qu'alarmante dont souffrent les plus démuni-es de nos soeurs et frères humain-es, mal-logé-es, sans-abris et autres occupants de logements insalubres, rendu-es de facto incapables de se confiner sereinement. Cette précarité, déjà visible bien avant l'apparition du virus, est exacerbée par la gestion ultra-libérale des territoires habitables. Effet collatéral d'une époque où la privatisation des biens publics par certaines puissances industrielles et économiques tend à être rendue légitime par les institutions qui devraient pourtant oeuvrer à leur sauvegarde. Et dont les symptômes ressentis intimement, dans nos chairs, ne font que s'amplifier en ces temps d'urgence sanitaire.

Également conscient-es des engagements militants menés par le DAL (Droit Au Logement) afin de faire bouger les lignes sur ce sujet à une échelle plus globale, nous avons donc décidé de produire un objet musical qui viendrait soutenir leur lutte sur le plan financier (par contribution directe en achetant cet album) tout en constituant un relais aux différentes revendications d’urgence du DAL liées à la crise du Covid 19 : la réquisition des hôtels, meublés touristiques, logements et bureaux vacants pour loger les sans abris mais aussi très mal logés et victimes de violences conjugales et intra-familiales, le moratoire sur les loyers et les factures d’énergie, avec rétablissement et renforcement des APL, l’arrêt de toutes les expulsions...

L'évolution tragique de cette crise sanitaire frappe plus durement encore les classes populaires et les conséquences sociales à celle-ci vont être assez dramatiques (creusement des inégalités, scolaires notamment, perte d'emploi, impayés de loyers, expulsions massives..). Ceci nous pousse à porter un regard attentif sur les fondements de nos société rongées par le capitalisme et la sacro-sainte politique de l'offre, ainsi que sur la casse en cours des services publics qui affecte tous les corps du champ social. Casse menée tambour battant, réformes après réformes, par les gouvernements successifs à la tête de ce pays, qui fait pourtant toujours partie des six plus grandes puissances mondiales.

En tant que musicien-nes évoluant notamment dans des registres contre-culturels et underground, il est aussi de notre rôle de participer à cette chaîne de solidarité dont le DAL est un des organes vitaux, et permettre ainsi une meilleure conscience collective des problématiques liées au mal-logement. Se mettre en ordre de bataille contre ces politiques austères du territoire et des espaces de vies collectifs qui ne sont propices qu'au bien-être d'une seule frange de la population, jouissant de moyens financiers adéquats. Mais qui laissent dépérir ses semblables sur le bas-côté de la route. Sans cligner des yeux.

Malgré ce contexte tout à fait nouveau qui tend à interpeller nos consciences, nous avons produit cet album animé-es par des énergies salvatrices. Tous les morceaux qui le composent sont les produits du confinement et du bouillonnement de ses auteur-ices. Il comprend aussi quelques collaborations inédites d'artistes qui n'auraient d'aventure pas été amenés à travailler ensemble dans une autre temporalité, mais qui se retrouvent ici main dans la main pour créer un contenu musical solidaire et militant. Sa narration a été pensée comme un écoulement, qui vient tout du long se faire remuer par des vagues soniques aux couleurs variées qui, nous l'espérons, rappelleront à nos auditeur-ices à quel point la scène électronique française est riche musicalement. Par delà les frontières du genre et des querelles esthétiques de chapelle. Bonne écoute et bonne lutte !


[ENG]

Quarantine Sonic Squad is a community of musicians from different stylistic and (in)formal backgrounds, who have come together under a single banner, in response to the radical confinement policies adopted by the French State in response to the COVID-19 epidemic.

The idea behind the “DAL DE VIVRE” (“A Hunger For Life”) project is born out of response to two specific issues which are direct consequences of the global social and health crisis.

First of all, this new and uncharted situation of prolonged confinement (temporary but nonetheless necessary), which has pushed all of us, in our capacities as artists, performers, producers, musicians, DJs and other roles within the music business, to rethink our own professional activities against the backdrop of the loss of our workspaces. And secondly, we are more and more aware of the increasingly alarming situation of the most vulnerable of our societies, those who are homeless, living in difficult circumstances, or occupants of unsafe housing. Those who have been effectively unable to quarantine themselves in safe conditions. Their precarious position, which was already in evidence well before the epidemic, has been exacerbated by the neo-liberal policies enacted in relationship to housing by the current French government. Yet more collateral damage in an era when the privatisation of public goods and space by industry and business has become the new normal. And during this health crisis, the consequences of the charge to economic liberalization are felt even more keenly.

Our awareness of activism and activities of DAL (Droit Au Logement) in this area, who have worked tirelessly to fight against these tendencies on a national level, has inspired us to produce music in order to provide direct financial support to their cause. Each purchase of this compilation - priced pay what you want - will directly fund their various actions and activities, many of which are now in urgent need due to the current situation: requisition of hotels, tourist buildings, empty and vacant housing and offices in order to provide shelter for those who are homeless, victims of domestic or familial violence, or otherwise living in unsafe or unsuitable accommodation. DAL’s work has also expanded even further under the current situation, as they lobby for a moratorium on rent and all other domestic bills (electricity, gas…), a reinforced and reinstated program of financial aid for tenants, and the end of all forced evictions.

The tragic manner in which this pandemic has unfolded show that is hitting the lower classes harder than ever, with dramatic consequences to expect (widening inequalities, particularly in school, loss of employment, unpaid rent, mass evictions, etc.). All this should push us to think deeply about the societies we live in. The pillars on which we founded our nations have been progressively eaten away at by capitalism and the reverence for demand side economics, as well as the continued destruction of our public services which affects every member of the body politic. This destruction has been led to the steady beat of a drum, reform upon reform, by multiple successive governments at the head of this country, which is nonetheless one of the six most powerful and prosperous of the world’s nations.

As musicians who have learnt, practiced and developed our craft under the auspices of the counter-culture and as part of the underground, we feel that it is also our role to participate and show solidarity with the activities of vital organisations such as the DAL. We do this not only to support them financially, but also to raise public awareness of the problems linked with housing at present. We place ourselves at the front line in the fight against austerity politics and modes of public life which only serve to benefit a small minority of the population who have sufficient financial means, whilst leaving the rest to rot on the side of the road, without so much as a turn of the head.

Despite the current situation which has at times threatened to overwhelm our own thoughts, we have produced this compilation, dosed with life-saving energy. All the tracks included on it are the products of the individual confinement and the bubbling creative of its authors. It also includes several unprecedented collaborations between artists who, in a different time, might never have worked together, but are found here hand in hand in the service of solidarity and activism. Its sequencing has a narrative and flow, which throughout its length stirs up sonic vibrations of various colors and tones which, we hope, will remind listeners of the richness of the current French electronic scene. There’s no room here for genres or aesthetic quarrels amongst diversity.


UN TOIT, UN DROIT

TAKE CARE
STAY HOME
DO MUSIC
KEEP HELPING

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released May 1, 2020

Artwork & press release by DMT
English traduction by Phil Bloomfield
Vocal mix on Soft Matter's "Zero" made by Son Of A Pitch, mastered by Phonograph
Haxo's "Laps" mastered by TBS
Kaval's "Powerplant" mastered by Qant
Disconscience's "Festa Alla Finestra" mastered by Hugo Douster
Ashyl's 'Headlock" mastered by Skwig

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Quarantine Sonic Squad Paris, France

QSS is a community of musicians and producers acting on a wide-range scale of the electronic landscape. Gathered under lockdown due to COVID-19 epidemic to create some militant material. In order to help the french association "DAL" in their fight against bad housing problematics & supporting the rent cancel during the pandemic, at least. ... more

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