Siamgda - Here And Now (2020)

HANDS welcomes Marc Fischer, who under his SIAMGDA guise has built a considerable following with his releases on Mind Plug, ant-zen and aufnahme + wiedergabe, and now for his 10th album joins the HANDS artist roster. Siamgda stands for a highly percussive, intensely rhythmic sound that culls from Eastern and Western musical traditions to create a unique and fresh approach of industrial techno and dark tribal electro.

Siamgda’s art is about identity, about authenticity, born from experience, music for the here and now. The use of tribal beats and ethnic sounds has a huge tradition in industrial music, and HANDS artists have repeatedly explored that territory. Siamgda relates, and at the same time doesn’t relate to that tradition, as his sound appears more homogenous than anything else: A hypnotic blend of primordial techno primitivism, mysterious vocals and chants, distortion and harsh electronics. Sometimes broken and psychedelic (“We are now”, “Sensory Salvation”), always intensely physical (“Tribal Blood”, “Resistance”), even outright dance floor bound (“Bimbara Bambara”, “Now!”) with a booming bass drum. “Here and Now” is a good hour of bottom-heavy rhythmic greatness; and since he likes to revisit his own work from time to time, complemented with two adventurous remakes of tracks from 2014 and 2017 respectively.
Lao Tzu said “There is a time to live and a time to die but never to reject the moment.” - live in the here and now!