Resina - Speechless [LP]

130701

£17.28

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: LP13-48
Barcode: 0600116134813
Release Date: 19 Nov 2021
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

Tracklisting:
SIDE A
1. Mercury Immersion
2. Horse Tail
3. Failed Myth Simulation
4. Darwin’s Finches
SIDE B
5. Unveiling
6. Manic
7. Hajstra
8. A Crooked God
9. Recall

Warsaw-based cellist/composer Resina (Karolina Rec) returns with a first standalone album in three years, taking a big step forward on a bold and brilliantly expansive record that explores ideas about language, the voice and the unpredictability of nature. Recorded by Resina and Michał Kupicz, with striking additional mixing & production work by Daniel Rejmer (Ben Frost, Björk, Foals, Girls Names), ‘Speechless’ is fluid and muscular, with wide dynamics and a dark and powerful dramatic weight. Across nine tracks, Resina’s cello, voice and electronics are set alongside drummer Mateusz Rychlicki, the 23-piece 441 Hz choir, with Magdalena Gajdzica playing flute (track 1) and Michał Fojcik adding field recording & sound design (track 4).

Removed from their regular, more refined classical contexts, cello and choir are subjected to electronic processing, expanded and deployed in a swirling, visceral sound-world, sometimes pushed into distortion and anchored alongside Rychlicki’s driving drumming. An amalgama[1]tion of noise, rock, ambient, choral and classical elements, ‘Speechless’ shifts from gossamer beauty to glowering threat; from pulsing minimalism to full-bore propulsive blow-outs. As well as moments of great beauty, it is shot through with shrieks and howls, cavernous bass drops, sirens and sudden pitch shifts. A bold and adventurous work that synthesises the very best of her previous two albums and packs a powerful punch, ‘Speechless’ is released on FatCat’s 130701 imprint on November 19th and will be available on vinyl, CD and digital formats.

• Recorded by Resina and Michał Kupicz, mixing & production work by Daniel Rejmer (Ben Frost, Björk, Foals, Girls Names)

• Previous support from The Guardian, Uncut, The Quietus, The Arts Desk, The 405, Vinyl Factory, Line Of Best Fit, XLR8R, Headphone Commute, NTS, Mixmag, Self-Titled, Electronic Sound, etc + on BBC radio from Elizabeth Alker, Iggy Pop, Tom Ravenscroft, Nick Luscombe

• RIYL: Hildur Gudnadottir, Gyda Valtyrsdottir, Oliver Coates, Lucy Railton, Colin Stetson and Ben Frost