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Double LP version. Ice blue vinyl; edition of 500. On Delta, a dozen artists across four continents freely interpret Fountain (HVALREKI 017LP, 2020) across a double-album, again featuring Donna Huanca's surreal artwork, and the unearthly graphic manipulations of Nufolklore Studios. Remaining faithful to Fountain's presentation, Lyra's curation reflects her commitment to stylistic diversity, with the old guard and the next wave alongside each other. Where some artists chose to rework existing works, others composed new material from fragments found across the record. The results showcase the very themes of wordless identity conflict and technological concerns that Lyra and her foremothers have projected.
Valgeir Sigurdsson marries elements of Lyra's entire catalog into work that combines the limitless highs of Sigur Ros and the steady pulse of The Knife. KMRU cloaks Lyra in a hazy film, soundtracking the depths of space embedded within the ghosts of jungle past. Gabber Modus Operandi expose the realities of artificial nature in a multi-colored rave dystopia. Eris Drew's double opus takes the tenets of her philosophies into both ambient and peak-time expressions of the trip, the things that lead to the decision before, and the portals that can open up after. Ben Frost dissolves "Cradle"'s deep and tremulous hymn in analog warble, distressed tape spooling out of control and breaking up over the heavens, while remaining oddly serene. Heaven In Stereo conjures up post-rock with trap drums out of "Gossip", buried in bass weight and dub space. Nailah Hunter and Tygapaw transform "New Moon" into an earthbound ode to nature and a pounding trance state induction, while Caterina Barbieri and Hudson Mohawke extract and amplify "Tendril"'s mind and soul. Vessel takes what feels like the entire album and builds it up to a frantic climax before subsuming into Enoesque pastoralia. Alongside Delta, Lyra has collaborated with Spitfire Audio to develop Siren Songs, a free plug-in for their LABS series made from playable samples from Fountain, able to work across DAWs in multiple formats. Fountain was that burst of water and swell of energy that propelled her to critical acclaim. Delta is a new take on a traditional remix album, centered on transgenerational dialogue and global storytelling, and will be released again via Iceland's Bedroom Community label. Projecting Fountain through prisms, wordless songs fractalize into lush creations that blossom with new life. Delta is a point where creative flows meet and triangulate, where global and personal folk histories are presented in novel ways, where transcultural collaboration is celebrated, where many worlds emerge from the depths below. Also features Colin Self, Kara-Lis Coverdale, and Tygapaw.
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On Delta, a dozen artists across four continents freely interpret Fountain (HVALREKI 017LP, 2020) across a double-album, again featuring Donna Huanca's surreal artwork, and the unearthly graphic manipulations of Nufolklore Studios. Remaining faithful to Fountain's presentation, Lyra's curation reflects her commitment to stylistic diversity, with the old guard and the next wave alongside each other. Where some artists chose to rework existing works, others composed new material from fragments found across the record. The results showcase the very themes of wordless identity conflict and technological concerns that Lyra and her foremothers have projected.
Valgeir Sigurdsson marries elements of Lyra's entire catalog into work that combines the limitless highs of Sigur Ros and the steady pulse of The Knife. KMRU cloaks Lyra in a hazy film, soundtracking the depths of space embedded within the ghosts of jungle past. Gabber Modus Operandi expose the realities of artificial nature in a multi-colored rave dystopia. Eris Drew's double opus takes the tenets of her philosophies into both ambient and peak-time expressions of the trip, the things that lead to the decision before, and the portals that can open up after. Ben Frost dissolves "Cradle"'s deep and tremulous hymn in analog warble, distressed tape spooling out of control and breaking up over the heavens, while remaining oddly serene. Heaven In Stereo conjures up post-rock with trap drums out of "Gossip", buried in bass weight and dub space. Nailah Hunter and Tygapaw transform "New Moon" into an earthbound ode to nature and a pounding trance state induction, while Caterina Barbieri and Hudson Mohawke extract and amplify "Tendril"'s mind and soul. Vessel takes what feels like the entire album and builds it up to a frantic climax before subsuming into Enoesque pastoralia. Alongside Delta, Lyra has collaborated with Spitfire Audio to develop Siren Songs, a free plug-in for their LABS series made from playable samples from Fountain, able to work across DAWs in multiple formats. Fountain was that burst of water and swell of energy that propelled her to critical acclaim. Delta is a new take on a traditional remix album, centered on transgenerational dialogue and global storytelling, and will be released again via Iceland's Bedroom Community label. Projecting Fountain through prisms, wordless songs fractalize into lush creations that blossom with new life. Delta is a point where creative flows meet and triangulate, where global and personal folk histories are presented in novel ways, where transcultural collaboration is celebrated, where many worlds emerge from the depths below. Also features Colin Self, Kara-Lis Coverdale, and Tygapaw.
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Lyra Pramuk's debut Fountain explores a post-human, non-binary understanding of life. Lyra Pramuk fuses classical training, pop sensibilities, performance practices and contemporary club culture in what may best be described as futurist folk music. While the American operatically-trained vocalist and electronic musician is perhaps previously best known for her work with musical collaborators such as Holly Herndon and Colin Self, her debut album, Fountain, will be released via Iceland's Bedroom Community label. Created entirely from her own voice, although often shaped and structured by electronics, Fountain is an emotional, sensual, and devotional journey. The title is derived from her family name, Pramuk, which translates from Czech as "well spring" or "fountain". Often wordless, these songs evoke a new wholeness sustained by the ritual force of drowning, immersion, cleansing, and bathing -- also referred to in the album artwork by acclaimed visual artist Donna Huanca. Fountain plays with the perception of music, rhythms, speech, body, and the relation between technology and humanity, exploring a post-human, non-binary understanding of life and the fragile ecosystems it depends on. The work documents a healing that is still in process, and a full circle-moment that reunited Lyra with her sound engineer twin brother, Ben, for the final mix, which they completed in tandem. As a vocal activist and member of the queer community, Fountain's creation also coincided with a personal rejuvenation for its author. Its completion culminated in the live premiere of the album material at Unsound Festival in Krakow in 2019, where she performed through a multi-channel array designed by Ben Frost, opening for Sunn O))) and Roly Porter. A closer collaboration with Frost on a soundtrack for a new film project will be announced later in 2020. Her performance at Berghain in January for CTM Festival in her hometown of Berlin promises an even more confident and joyous realization of the album's song cycle. Lyra moved to Berlin in 2013 as a DAAD postgraduate study scholarship recipient, following her degree at the Eastman School of Music in New York. Since then, she has also been awarded residencies at Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm, Open Port Club Residency in Tokyo and Sapporo, and Future Music Lab of the Atlantic Music Festival in Maine. Her interests also encompass writing, poetry, and fashion, where she is sometimes called upon as a model.
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