
As the world burns, some nice music still manages to take shape…and it opens our tenth compilation...
A distinctive working process had been developed in the course of making the Scald album this past year, thus Solace came together quite quickly. In a black room, we jammed the violin riff and immediately began adding keys and harmonics to it. The sub bass came out of Stormfield’s phone! A couple of sessions later, it was done. There's actually a full techno version of this, which you can hear during the Scald live performances.
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Beautiful, dark, restless visuals and soundscapes upon a massive slab of sub bass, Scald is the collaboration between classically trained violinist Aimée Mullen and Stormfield, audio-visual meddler from Combat Recordings. Meeting via a shared background of raves, dark rooms and fucked up sounds, their project pushes the extremes of harmonic noise but with a solid dancefloor discipline, combining string abuse, improvisation and distortion with gigantic subs and abstract technoid beat structures. Informed equally by Autechre, Basinski and Scorn, “Lacerations” was recently released on the Section 27 label, with remix work and a full album in the pipeline.