{"id":4103,"date":"2021-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2021-09-05T00:02:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T07:02:19","slug":"soundwave-75-complex-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/soundwave-75-complex-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUNDWAVE : 75 : COMPLEX HOLIDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s guest deejay is Robert Farrugia<\/a>, co-founder of Complex Holiday<\/a>, an itinerant label for inside-out ambient and sound art tomfoolery.<\/p>\n\n

I\u2019m usually fastidious about tracking how I come to know guest deejays on Soundwave. Unfortunately, my initial conversation with Robert began on Facebook Messenger and that chat is lost to the ether. Well, really, Facebook has that conversation stored somewhere. But it\u2019s as good as gone for me.<\/p>\n\n

Whatever lead me to Robert, I\u2019m glad I invited him to join us.<\/p>\n\n

What you may or may not know is that I get the mixes you hear months in advance. I usually enjoy it for a week or two before I move on to listen to the next guest deejay\u2019s mix. I\u2019ll also re-listen to the mix a few weeks before their show is released. I listen to the mixes a lot<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

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Robert Farrugia, Photograph by Chris Vella \/ Storbju<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

Robert\u2019s mix was a welcome companion for the last week. Nationally, the U.S. is caught between wildfires and hurricanes. Internationally, the U.S. has left Afghanistan. And on a personal note, the was my kid\u2019s first week at high school. While our area is 75% vaccinated, I\u2019m still anxious about how this will work out. Within the first week there\u2019s already been a report of a student with COVID-19. Robert\u2019s mix felt like an echo of how I\u2019ve been feeling about all of it.<\/p>\n\n

There\u2019s a tension that builds up early in Robert\u2019s mix that unravels nearly halfway through before exploring different sonic territory. The mix ends hauntingly and somberly.<\/p>\n\n

That feels right.<\/p>\n\n

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Michael Donaldson<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

See you then!<\/p>\n\n