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Release: July 7, 2023 Format: vinyl LP + digital Buy on Bandcamp / Kudos Stream via Spotify / Apple Music

«We find ourselves venturing into the depths of a rugged terrain. In our hands, we hold stones and minerals, each possessing its own distinct texture, weight, and sonic potential. It is through artistic touch and through the musicality of these earthly treasures, once dormant, that life is awakened.» - Sara Oswald & Feldermelder

The third collaborative album by prolific cellist Sara Oswald and electronic musician Feldermelder evokes captivating sensations, oscillating between sentiments of impending doom and tentative hope. A cerebral, highly immersive work that transports the listener from one landscape to another. Metallic resonances and sustained orchestral tones weave an entrancing tapestry of futurism and organic sound, incorporating granular elements and panoramic expansiveness. Sara Oswald & Feldermelder convey light and tension, with orchestral harmonic structures lending a sense of grandeur and continuity. This is enigmatic music, gradually unveiling concealed aspects and hidden truths. 

An inspiring component, Sara Oswald’s pure and melodic cello playing draws out emotive lustre, fluidly transitioning between colossal peaks, vibrant hues, cascading notes, and hushed echoes. Feldermelder invokes similarly elemental attributes in electronics which swirl and storm across the sound field; sculpted textures, fragmentary glitches and boundless atmospherics that warp the fabric of reality. The two musicians merge harmoniously, uniting transcendent acoustic sound and striking electronic forms. This contrasting fusion makes for unique and intriguing music, the cello’s warmth coalescing with electronic pulsation, creating a symphony of juxtaposition and upheaval. Their powerful, intricately woven electroacoustic architecture balances chaos and control, a labyrinthine proposition that holds both monumental soundscapes and remote sonorities within its grasp, as if envisaging the totality of a natural topography, from the vast scale of a mountain to the smallest grains of sand.

Trained in baroque cello and advocating improvised music, Sara Oswald is the perfect match for sound artist and electronic musician Feldermelder. She plays solo, composes for film and theatre and collaborates with musicians like The Young Gods, Pascal Auberson, Sophie Hunger and Julian Sartorius. Feldermelder is a polymathic creative whose artistry spans composition, sound design, installation, and coding. He is co-founder of -OUS and part of Encor.studio, a collective of artists who specialise in creating immersive audio-visual installations. Through his work, he explores the idea of secrecy and its impact on our lives, using music and sound to create a thought-provoking and absorbing listening experience.

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Written by Feldermelder & Sara Oswald Produced by Manuel Oberholzer Mastered by VFBM Cover Design by Isaak Rickenbacher

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SARA OSWALD + FELDERMELDER — DRAWN — OUS033 — digital EP

Release: June 19, 2021 Format: digital Order on Bandcamp / Kudos / Boomkat Listen on Spotify / Apple Music

«The way we approach recording music — starting from an inner and outer void, where there is just acoustical action and reaction — is an attempt to emulate and slow down the fleeting memories that occur during a near death experience. A scintillating recollection that is the essence of who we are, slowed down and enhanced in order to be captured.» - Sara Oswald + Feldermelder

Prolific cellist Sara Oswald and experimental electronic musician Feldermelder present a captivating experience that resembles the suspended timelessness of an embryonic world. The way in which the duo modulate our perception of time, across this EP of three distinct pieces, represents an impressive display of aesthetic power, enabling listeners to experience the here and now in a total, physical engagement, and to travel through endless, transitional states of mind. «Drawn» is a meditation, where process becomes form.

The first piece ‘Fishes in Histogram Waterfalls’ opens up a time-space where acoustic elements meet electronics; a fragile and organic encounter that nevertheless remains potent and precise. In this Sara Oswald and Feldermelder form resonant clouds of sound that hover and move discreetly.

The second piece ‘Volcanic Meditation Walks’ is more rhythmically defined, punctuated by repetitive accents and imbued with an enchanting, longing melody. Interspersed with heavy, phantasmal electronics, the track evokes a surreal passage across a scorched landscape, like a trek at the foot of Mount Etna.

«Drawn» reflects a dislocation of conventional temporality, and with the final piece ‘Short Term Memories’ the duo offer a denouement, where ‘the naked truth of our existence is revealed’, where every moment is again just another shift, another liminal state. Here they embody the perpetual flow of existence, where birth and death form a circle — where the same form never reappears — where every moment is unique. And where memory has its limits, because neither past nor future really exist.

___Tracklist

01     Sara Oswald + Feldermelder - Fishes in Histogram Waterfalls 02     Sara Oswald + Feldermelder - Volcanic Meditation Walks 03     Sara Oswald + Feldermelder - Short Term Memories

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Release: June 18, 2021 Format: digital

___Credits

All tracks written by Sara Oswald and Feldermelder Produced by Manuel Oberholzer Mixed and mastered by VFBM Cover by Manuel Oberholzer

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