The Quick and the Dead & Barbo Inject Q – The Lascivious Nymph, 2017
Abstract, Electro, Experimental music LP – Duration: 45′18″
Budapest, QAD Collective – Optimal Crew / Independent Release
The Lascivious Nymph stands as a unique, almost ritualistic imprint of Budapest’s underground sonic scene. The official release by the QAD (The Quick and the Dead) collective is not a conventional album, but rather a spiritual performance, a collective séance – a recorded improvisational sound experiment merging electronic music, spoken word, noise art, and surrealist poetry into a distinctive fusion.
Rejecting all constraints, the collective – consisting of DJs, electronic musicians, sound artists, multimedia artist and poets – immersed themselves in freeform improvisation using their own tools and mediums. The instrumentation blends analog distortion, lo-fi sound textures, digital loops, and synthesizers with fragmented speech, vocal samples, and site-specific field recordings.
Barbo Inject Q, aka Bónyai Barbara, brings a striking vocal presence to the album – oscillating between expressive shouts, abstract rap, whispering, or distorted shadow-voices. She appears as a kind of voice-collage entity: at times the narrator, at other times a possessed medium. Her improvised texts, real-time Kaoss Pad effects, and self-produced digital sound compositions seamlessly integrate into the sonic atmosphere while simultaneously disrupting it – emphasizing the tension between control and surrender, individuality and collectivity.
The album features guest appearances from Syporca Whandal and various other performers and producers, each contributing their own sonic character to the woven audio textures. Tracks like Lot in Sodom, Crooked God, or Soft Occupation draw on sacred, erotic, ironic, and political connotations through both linguistic and auditory symbolism.
QAD’s working method is rooted in spontaneity and attentiveness to the present moment. Each participant brought their own world to the sonic ritual – through instruments, text, samples, or pure atmosphere. Over the course of the process, the “I” gradually dissolves into a shared sonic experience – thus, The Lascivious Nymph is not merely an album, but also an event and a document. A trace of a creative era in which music functions as medium: spiritual invocation, collective dreaming, remembrance and transformation through sound.
The album’s dedication – “In memory of Boogie and Cin” – is an ironic yet touching homage: two figures who became mythological within the improvisations, sex gods dancing in an aquarium to Love Machine. This image encapsulates the essence of the album: playful, obscene, sentimental, and deeply personal all at once.
For Bónyai Barbara, The Lascivious Nymph marks a significant point in her vocal performance and sonic art practice. While her 1990s work was rooted in instinctive, archaic sound poetry, here a more conscious yet liberated sonic identity unfolds. Her collaboration with QAD serves as a bridge between ritual vocality, hip-hop, and experimental electronics – giving form to an organic, polyphonic, and profoundly personal soundscape.
Knotted Days (Jimmie Forte Remix) is from the The Lascivious Nymph LP, 2017. Vocals: Barbo Inject Q. Video directed by: Barbo Inject and baxgas
Lobotomie is from the The Lascivious Nymph LP, 2017. Vocals: Barbo Inject Q. Video directed by: baxgas
Soft Occupation / Puha megszállás is from the The Lascivious Nymph LP, 2017. Vocals: Barbo Inject Q. Video directed by: Barbo Inject Q and baxgas