Soil Music

Soil music, as I call it, is a term derived from our the style of music-making band, Orovada. It’s not jazz or nu-jazz, or nu nu-jazz. The name Orovada comes from a type of soil found in Nevada, which we decided to adopt when we decided to start gigging.

It’s not just a pun on ‘soul’. It draws inspiration from the botanic metaphors used by Deleuze and Guattari to explain their complex ideas. One such metaphor is the rhizome - a root-like feature that embodies a non-linear growth pattern. Unlike roots that point to a central origin point, rhizomes are chaotic and non-hierarchical.

These botanical terms were used by D&G metaphorically to create “an image of thought”. Their work, grounded in interrogating the foundations of psychoanalysis has been incredibly influential to my own thinking, both politically and musically.

Soil acts as an ’empty space’ between entities, wether they are roots or rhizomes. Soil music exists like soil does; between. On the one side is the mandate of tempo, which embodies the relentless flow of entropy (linear time; past, present, future), while on the other side is improvisation, indeterminacy, and ultimately chaos.

1. Warm Green Watersun
2. Tsingoi J’Ampelones
3. Toulouse
4. Baby Blue

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