Clube da Mariposa Mórbida, by Akira Umeda & Metal Preyers

Clube da Mariposa Mórbida

by Akira Umeda & Metal Preyers

supported by

Axonberg ⛏️⛏️ comique sans ms Favorite track: Big Scud.

yintov love this, some of the most exquisite and unique music I've heard recently Favorite track: Hora Do Slime.

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.

€7 EUR or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Includes unlimited streaming of Clube da Mariposa Mórbida via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.

ships out within 10 days

Purchasable with gift card

€24 EUR or more

1.	One Eyed Weasel 02:49	buy track
2.	Big Scud 01:52	buy track
3.	Clube da Mariposa Mórbida 04:26	buy track
4.	Immolation Meditation 04:44	buy track
5.	Boi de Piranha 02:22	buy track
6.	Rato Gordo 02:48	buy track
7.	Cut Throat Mickey 06:20	buy track
8.	Hora Do Slime 03:27	buy track
9.	Olhos De Facão 04:20	buy track
10.	Gnomo Desagradável 01:13	buy track
11.	Ice Maidens Myriad Dream 05:28	buy track

about

Collaged from juddery electroacoustic rhythms, analog synth segments, environmental recordings, text-to-speech poems and what Akira Umeda calls "ghost sounds", 'Clube da Mariposa Mórbida' is a transcultural voyage into pure sonic fantasy. The São Paulo-based DIY maverick and former historian trades impressions and delusions with Nyege regular Metal Preyers, imagining gory VR avatars, lovestruck arachnids, supermassive black holes and the titular morbid moth club, absurd iconography that stains their warped, mutable soundscapes. Metal Preyers and Umeda starting working on this project following Umeda’s sprawling 'Gueixa', an hour-long postmodern mixtape made from 202 fragments of the artist's seemingly bottomless library of experiments. Spotting a similarity in the way they were both driven by collage and curation, Metal Preyers member Jesse Hackett embarked on four whirlwind months of exchange, sending Umeda audio snippets and concepts that the Brazilian eccentric would decode with Google translate. Umeda's contribution was more uncanny; listening to the sketches on repeat until the sounds created "evasive impressions" in his mind, he used analog instruments and text-to-speech software to recreate these phantom occurrences. "Specters are never clear and always shifting, so the experience of synthesizing them is similar to clay modeling," he explains. "To record these synthetic ghost sounds is like firing ceramic pots."

And the hybrid nature of their collaboration doesn't begin and end there. Both Hackett and Umeda work within visual art: Umeda has made films, ceramics and illustrations, while Hackett works on jewelry and sculpture with his father Bill, the proto-punk artist from the 1960’s best known for his mysterious occult like sculptures and for creating Keith Richards' iconic skull ring. Two of Bill's artworks are featured on the album art and shadow the record's themes, both carved in wood that's stained with a shellac dye made from old 78rpm records. Umeda and Hackett's music is similarly recycled, as if they're dousing fresh art with long forgotten colors. On the opening track 'One Eyed Weasel', decelerated Brazilian funk syncopations are twisted with weightless voices, orchestral flourishes and canned screams before being lowered into eerie beds of unplaceable white noise. Even at the best of times, it's difficult to pry apart what's real and what's synthesized; cyborg voices in different languages stutter around tangled, colorful musical threads: tablas, overdriven psych guitars, cryptic santur chimes and microtonal reed echoes. But Umeda and Hackett's music isn't an accompaniment to some post-Hassell Fourth World concept, it's a projection into parallel future where our patchwork of cultures, digital and otherwise, has been reduced to hazy memories.

On 'Boi de Piranha', defective temple bells punctuate blown-out spiraling beats and unsettling backmasked chatter, and ruffled, featherlight rhythms and mbira-like repeating sequences quiver through sleazy 4/4 architectures on 'Cut Throat Mickey'. Unfolding like a hypnagogic soundtrack to an unwritten queer post-apocalyptic noir, 'Clube da Mariposa Mórbida' retches and heaves in the glamor of decay; slithering electro-plated music box earworms burrow into 'Hora Do Slime', while on 'Olhos De Facão' humid synth sequences chew on bone-rattling acoustic percussion and dissociated traces of humanity. It's Akira Umeda’s and Metal Preyers most bizarre offering yet, a few paces beyond 'Shadow Swamps' murking shadows towards Umeda's kaleidoscopic concrète jungle.

credits

released July 11, 2025

license

subtotal
taxes calculated at checkout

about

Nyege Nyege Tapes Kampala, Uganda

Distribution & wholesale: distribution@nyegenyegetapes.shop

Orders ship twice weekly with tracking. Records are packed in whiplash mailers with extra cardboard protection.

US orders ship from NYC.
All other international orders ship from Belgium. ... more

contact / help

Contact Nyege Nyege Tapes

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Clube da Mariposa Mórbida, you may also like:

Gaudencia
by MC Yallah & Debmaster

supported by 163 fans who also own “Clube da Mariposa Mórbida”

on dit pas ckiki Axonberg ⛏️⛏️
go to album
Anyim
by Catu Diosis

supported by 135 fans who also own “Clube da Mariposa Mórbida”
go to album
The Afrorack
by Afrorack

supported by 132 fans who also own “Clube da Mariposa Mórbida”

One of my best findings in the last 3 years. An inspiring great album. Love it! Aksīts
go to album
Terceiro Mundo
by Nomade Orquestra

featured on Bandcamp Radio Aug 13, 2024
go to album
Vapor
by Bixiga 70

featured on Bandcamp Radio Aug 29, 2023
go to album
The Copan Connection: Bixiga 70 Meets Victor Rice
by Bixiga 70

featured on Bandcamp Radio Oct 9, 2018
go to album
ROCOCO RUINE
by Authentically Plastic

supported by 125 fans who also own “Clube da Mariposa Mórbida”

cocculine derrière le siège Axonberg ⛏️⛏️
go to album