4 + 3 = 1 Book 1: Subtle Energy in Poetry with a Beat With Eiliyas and Lynhan Balatbat - Helbock(2021)


In the beginning, there was the Mixtape: Mixtape Menage, a poetic-philosophic reading travel to verbalisations and sound reverberations, sets us into the musicality of electricity and its relational magnitude. Created, arranged and tuned by Eiliyas, and accompanied by a guest, the sessions sonorise-visualise notes loudly unheard-of.

In this first 4+3 RadioBook dedicated to Subtle Energy, Eiliyas is joined by curator Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, to manifest and enhance inscriptions by authors like Kodwo Eshun, Elise Kermani, RAMMELLZEE, and Saul Williams. They remind us of formulas of the living, encoded in subtle energies of hip hop and beyond. Or, to say it with Nikki Giovanni: it's poetry with a beat.