lord & dego: lord & dego 2
Francisco Espregueira
Matt Lord & dego have been cementing their impressive musical connection with high-regarded collaborative EP’s, released in the the past decade. Their new project, via 2000BLACK, follows up on the self-titled LP that came out last year and presents 12 tracks that feel like a dream come true for electronic jazz aficionados. Lord & dego 2 is an ode to the exploration of sound and rhythmic progressions, situating itself within the boundaries of jazz, boogie, broken beat and electronic music.
Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason” said Goya, and today we live with its complete absence. Murder and grief, destitution and corruption surround us. War. Democide and the madness of the lies that adorn it - a casual dispersal of humanity and lives put to the fire.
Where is joy? Where is hope? Music and Art are all that remain to salve the spirit, yet they are done. A Twentieth-century devotion that now only exists as an outfit, a thin layer worn as social currency. What was previously a mountainous range for pilgrims to climb is now a warehouse stacked high, lit by LED, every last shadow removed. Served online as a superficial ghost, reanimated by computer in St.Vitus dance - those warm corners where we used to reside now stark and scratchy - no place left to hide, no orange glow to spark cognisance. Right against the wall, held by the throat, we are only free in dreams. Yet Music still lives here - in reverie amongst the world of spirits and memory, recharging and recuperating, awaiting rebirth. So let the psalms of decades past instead serve as armour - dress yourself with these plates and reside here while storms rage outside. Here are 12 dreams to serve as armour. Take hope with lord and dego, sit here with us in the warmth and dream again, for in the words of Hughes “if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”.
Once again, Matt Lord and dego lead us ‘away from avarice and onwards to joy’. Available on vinyl, the format in which everything sounds better