Nettle czyli po polsku pokrzywa to grupa założona przez Dj Rupture'a. Na powstanie tego albumu miał wpływ pomysł zrobienia remake'u filmu "Lśnienie" Stanleya Kubricka. Miejsce akcji tym razem miałoby znaleźć się nie w hotelu Overlook w Colorado, ale w luksusowym apartamentowcu w Dubaju. Warstwa muzyczna tego soundtracku do nieistniejącego filmu składa się z delikatnej elektroniki prowadzącej dialog z instrumentami strunowymi (smyczki, guembri, gitara) i głosem.

Nettle is a band project led by DJ Rupture. For this album, Nettle imagined a remake of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining set in a luxury hotel in Dubai, U.A.E. El Resplandor: The Shining In Dubai is their soundtrack for that nonexistent film. Cello, violin, guembri, guitar, and voice combine with digital processing to create a complex soundworld whose acoustic and electronic elements are in intimate dialog. Produced by arranged by DJ Rupture.
The album features photographs by acclaimed Emirati artist Lamya Gargash, who was the U.A.E.'s featured artist for the 2009 Venice Biennale, and liner notes by architecture writer Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG). This October the band will release a free set of audio software tools called Sufi Plug Ins (written in Max/MSP) that they built specifically for live performance.

Nettle began as a DJ Rupture's duo with Moroccan violinist Abdelhak Rahal and has since evolved into a five-piece. They have performed at Spain's SONAR festival, Rome's Maxxi Museum of 21st Century Art, and at Morocco's Cinematheque de Tanger, and have toured the UK and Belgium with Nass El Ghiwane.Nettle's work foregrounds issues of friction, translation, and displacement as necessary counter-narratives to the standard paradigms of 'cross-cultural exchange' and metaphors of mixing or hybridity.

Jace Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist living in Brooklyn. Performing as DJ /rupture, Clayton has toured internationally, DJ'ed in a band with Norah Jones, done tw.......
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