Care by ZULI

ZULI presents an EP that extends the landscape of 2024’s LP “Lambda” on Subtext — comprising one remix and two original tracks that continue the creative conversation he began in his studio in Cairo five years ago, and developed in Berlin over the previous two years.

The emotive “Care” centers around a field recording of ZULI tapping on the neck of an unplugged guitar. The field recorder was at the other end of his home studio in Cairo, right by the window, so when a car-crash-turned-street-fight broke out, the whole thing was captured and integrated into the track. Every emotion seems to be equally present in this study of simultaneous restraint and maximalism, creating something uniquely melancholic and uplifting.

“Elysian Blue” explores production techniques employed in Lambda; simple melodies with a focus on slowly evolving textures, conjuring the peaceful tension of having left a significant event somewhere in the distance, while having its evaporating profundity escape description while welcome intrusive fragments of its memory alternatingly stab and caress the heart.

The other piece on the EP is a remix track from “Lambda.” Ludwig Wandinger remix of “Ast” featuring Coby Sey teases out the original’s R&B dna and mutates it into a hallucinogenic and soulful eruption of sensual experimentation.

Ludwig Wandinger is an experimental producer, drummer, composer and visual artist, based in Berlin. He has worked and performed with a variety of forward thinking musicians and artists such as Elvin Brandhi, Kianí del Valle, Luka Aron, Evita Manji, Grischa Lichtenberger, Brodinski, Female Pentimento, Yves B. Golden, Sara Persico, 645ar, Jim Black, Keith Rankin, the Notwist, Klahrk, the Berliner Ensemble, Kirke Karja, Dan Nicholls, House of Base, John Object, Zylva, Elias Stemeseder, Fausto Mercier, Petter Eldh, TAU, Roomer, Moran Sanderovich, Lucia Cadotsch, Nomi Sladko and many more.

His music has been released on genre-defying labels Light Years, Orange Milk Records, Gin and Platonic, Creamcake, 3XL, Mutants Mixtape, Acna Rusd and Average Negative, accompanied by collaborational releases and co-production credits for releases on PAN, A Flooded Need, Squama, Genot Centre, BMC, Ware and SFX.

Over the years he had the chance to go perform in Ecuador, China, Switzerland, Vietnam, France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Philippines, Canada, Poland, Indonesia, Iceland, Latvia, Austria, Romania, Finland, Estonia and Norway with highlight festivals being the likes of Jazz Fest Berlin, Moers Festival, Magnet Festival, A l´Arme Festival, Neue National Galerie, Berlinische Galerie, 3hd Festival, Punkt Festival, Jazzfestival Reykjavik and many more.

His multimedia art gets released under the moniker "kirschbluetenimwind" and has been presented at the "Digital Fog" exhibition at Urban Contemporary in Berlin 2022, the Keyframe Digital Art Festival in Vienna 2022, the Pop Up Gallery Berlin 2022, the "Mana Exhibition" in Shibuya, Tokyo 2022, as a part of the collective “1_1pr_f2r_sm” showcase at Art Basel Hongkong 2023 and at the exhibition "The Staircase - Nah...Nobody Home" in Prague 2023 by Proto Gallery Systems. In 2024 he got selected as a signature artist of the Monheim Triennale.