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01. Michaela Melian - Traverse Benjamin
02. Michaela Melian - Im Lerchenfeld
03. Michaela Melian - Esplanade des Chèvres
04. Michaela Melian - Tübingen
05. Michaela Melian - My Other Voice
06. Michaela Melian - Le Grand Orchestre de Kursaal
07. Michaela Melian - Nordwest-Passage
08. Michaela Melian - Märchenwald
09. Michaela Melian - They Say it's Wonderful
ARTIST
TITLE
music for a while
FORMAT
LP

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CATALOG #
A 048LP A 048LP
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RELEASE DATE
11/28/2025

With Michaela Melián's LP music for a while, a-Musik is releasing the first album by the visual artist, co-founder of F.S.K., and solo musician since Monaco (MONIKA 079CD), which appeared on Monika Enterprise in 2013. While her last releases, Electric Ladyland (2016), Music from a Frontier Town (2018), and Tania (2022) were created as part of exhibitions and sound installations, music for a while is Melián's fourth autonomous LP, characterized on the one hand by her unmistakable dreamlike sound along the interfaces between dark chamber music, solemn ambient techno, and cinematic sound art. As with her previous albums, there is also a wonderful avant-pop cover version -- this time of the track "My Other Voice" (1979) by the Sparks. On the other hand, music for a while, whose cover is adorned with Melián's photographs of the clouds above her new home of Marseille, spreads a comparatively ominous mood, thanks in part to the sedate, almost ticking drum sounds of co-producer Felix Raethel. Once again, the multi-instrumentalist, supported by Ruth May on violin and Elen Harutyunyan on viola, weaves her recordings of various string instruments -- cello, guitar, bass, and zither -- into fascinating, lurching, looping, and almost hypnotic soundscapes, but atonal synthesizer sounds in tracks such as "traverse Benjamin" and "märchenwald" open up the music to electroacoustic and experimental music. The concluding cover version of Irving Berlin's "they say it's wonderful" (1946) rounds off one of this year's most impressive releases in an incomparably groovy and melancholic way.