{"id":41989,"date":"2019-02-13T17:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/dejots-holowez-is-a-sonic-diary-through-johannesburg\/"},"modified":"2020-04-29T08:03:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T07:03:59","slug":"dejot-holowez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/dejot-holowez\/","title":{"rendered":"Dejot&#8217;s Holowez is a sonic diary through Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21030 pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dejot_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dejot_1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dejot_1-759x542.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dejot_1-661x472.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dejot_1-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dejot_1-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Released on January 21st on Mouthwatering Records, the album traces monthes of\u00a0 audio recordings through the South-African city, like\u00a0pages torn out of a diary, shuffled like a deck of cards and then laid out on the table in new configurations.<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Memory is a creative act, not counting the input as catalyst it\u2019s almost entirely based on the faculties of the imagination.&#8221; That\u2019s how <em>Holowez<\/em>, the latest release from Swiss producer Dejot should be understood: as a creative negotiation between a sonic document of actual events and its human memory analog.\u00a0The project started with a hard\u00addrive of 40\u00adsomething songs that\u00a0the artist recorded during a 3\u00ad month long stay in Johannesburg back in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The production process turned the raw material into the final version of the record, revisiting\u00a0and\u00a0reshaping\u00a0the\u00a0initial\u00a0compositions\u00a0as\u00a0it\u00a0was\u00a0about\u00a0applying\u00a0some\u00a0of\u00a0this dub\u00a0logic\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0fabric\u00a0of\u00a0the actual\u00a0memories.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-test=\"textbox\">&#8220;I\u00a0started\u00a0to\u00a0build\u00a0an\u00a0imaginary\u00a0world\u00a0in\u00a0my\u00a0head,\u00a0a\u00a0mixture\u00a0of\u00a0what\u00a0I\u00a0documented\u00a0withmy\u00a0photos,\u00a0all\u00a0types\u00a0of\u00a0latent\u00a0impressions\u00a0and,\u00a0of\u00a0course,\u00a0my\u00a0memories.\u00a0 It\u00a0was\u00a0as\u00a0if\u00a0I\u00a0was\u00a0creating\u00a0a\u00a0different\u00a0take\u00a0on\u00a0reality,\u00a0and\u00a0this\u00a0reflected\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0music.&#8221; says Dejot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=614485426\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dejot.bandcamp.com\/album\/holowez\">Holowez by Dejot<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The album blends textured ambient works, evocative field recordings with lo-fi electronica, while evoking its South-African influences, sometimes through polyrhythms, sometimes through the sonic ambiances. It also features the strange and captivating Moonchild Sanely, and Zimbabwean artist Rober Machiri a.k.a Chi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u00a0wanted\u00a0to\u00a0make\u00a0something\u00a0mystical\u00a0and\u00a0visually\u00a0driven,\u00a0like\u00a0a\u00a0progressive\u00a0sequence of\u00a0scenes.\u00a0This\u00a0is\u00a0also\u00a0why\u00a0there\u00a0are\u00a0no\u00a0breaks\u00a0between\u00a0the\u00a0songs.\u00a0The\u00a0experience\u00a0of listening\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0record\u00a0should\u00a0feel\u00a0like\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0reading\u00a0through\u00a0my\u00a0diary.&#8221;\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dejot<\/p>\n<p>A month after releasing\u00a0<em>Hollowez<\/em>, Dejot unveils another full length, this time full of radio tailored bangers and vocals, called\u00a0<em>Uhujano,<\/em>\u00a0also recorded in Joburg.<\/p>\n<p><em>Holowez\u00a0was released on January 21st on<\/em>\u00a0Mouthwatering Records.\u00a0Order it on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/dejot.bandcamp.com\/album\/holowez\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h5>Read next: <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/chassol-having-big-fun-putting-the-world-to-music\/\">Chassol: having big fun putting the world to music<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bbdb74df-holowez-dejot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bbdb74df-holowez-dejot.jpg 700w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bbdb74df-holowez-dejot-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bbdb74df-holowez-dejot-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bbdb74df-holowez-dejot-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bbdb74df-holowez-dejot-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bbdb74df-holowez-dejot-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bbdb74df-holowez-dejot-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bbdb74df-holowez-dejot-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released on January 21st on Mouthwatering Records, the album traces monthes of\u00a0 audio recordings through the South-African city, like\u00a0pages torn out of a diary, shuffled like a deck of cards and then laid out on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[5200,5620],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[8403,8615,8620,8414,8618,8613,8609,8617,8610,8621,8435,8614,8508,8612,8412,8616,8611,8543,8438,8619],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41989"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41989"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}