(Un)familiar

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1.	Unintended Surprise 01:30	buy track
2.	Can't Find My Thoughts 02:20	buy track
3.	You Turned Into Water 03:25	buy track
4.	My Mind's Lullaby 01:18	buy track
5.	You Turned Into Water (TRSSX Remix) 06:38	buy track

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The name STMBL, moniker of the duo comprising of Munich-based visual artist and multi-instrumentalist Polygonia and African-based beatmaker M.O.T.O, is, in this age of ever more cynical and vapid cliches, perfectly appropriate. According to M.O.T.O, he had somehow stumbled onto Polygonia's Soundcloud, listened, and immediately reached out to her concerning the possibility of collaboration. Polygonia confirms this and says the same of her mutual discovery of M.O.T.O's music. Over the next couple of months, the two struck up conversation, friendship, and creation, finding much in common, from their shared interest in visual and sonic texture, to their pressing desire to make music that is both beautiful and challenging, or, as they put it, something decidedly (Un)familiar. Currently, Polygonia finds inspiration in the work of Jon Bap, Scott Xylo, and Rahm, the last of which M.O.T.O is also currently obsessed with alongside Clipping and JPEGMAFIA. The pair have brought their shared interest in voice, the use of recorded samples, and unconventional rhythm to bear on their first release on the Szatko Brother's run Krakow-Glasgow outfit Wodawater. While Polygonia describes the collaboration as effective and inspiring based on mutual agreement, M.O.T.O describes it as being as smooth as a magician's hands, a pleasure, and truly inspirational. With this debut project, both artists sought to stretch the legs of their shared taste for new experiments, loose thoughts, and various albeit fitting methods of sound creation. When asked what three things they hope someone listening to (Un)familiar might get out of it, in kismetically similar albeit slightly different ways, each said 1) positive confusion 2) frankness, openness, and courage for more experimental music and 3) astonishment.

The EP is accompanied by a remix from TRSSX for those urgent situations when rhythm and noise are the only solution.

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released September 25, 2019

composed and produced by M.O.T.O. and Polygonia

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