{"product_id":"music-for-breathing","title":"Music For Breathing","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe've been writing new material as a trio since the first lockdown in the spring of 2020. \u2028An organic and electro-acoustic impulse that translates both mine and Eliete's need of self-archiving, \u2028re-inventing and auto-cannibalising Tetine's past, present and\nfuture in order to explore other aural \u2028landscapes and modes of composing intuitively, while at the same time, re-experiencing moments of our \u2028trajectory as a hybrid organism. \u2028\u2028\nMusic For Breathing was born as a respiratory, meditative, and improvisatory piece of DIY \u2028tropical-mutant-punk \"chamber music\" written for cello, voice, piano, organ and electronics. \u2028The work responds to the suspended acts of breathing and vertigos experienced in contemporary polluted\u2028 environments in political, social and philosophical transitions, whilst investigating the \u2028secret ontologies of inanimate objects and architectures, as well \u2028as the echoes and ethics of modes of operating things. \u2028\u2028\nRecorded during the intense period of heatwaves that hit London between July and August 2022, in \u2028a small studio set up in our flat's kitchen - so that we could capture the acoustic instrumentation \u2028(in particular, for the recording of cellos) without much\nnoise interference from the street - \u2028this vinyl version of the album comprises of 5 distinct yet complementary reflective movements. \u2028\n\nMusically and lyrically, it explores the atmospherics and syntaxes of time and space, voice, rhythm, \u2028as well as themes such as hearing loss, menopause, pollution and respiration. It builds an expanded suite of unexpected \u2028electro-acoustic textures through repetition, minimalistic motives, simple melodies, chromatic \u2028developments, free counterpoint and atonalism. Conceived as an ode to the poetics of slowness, \u2028the sounds you hear give continuity to the music we composed for the performance-film \u2028The Ether - Prelude No.1 over the first lockdown in 2020 as it simultaneously explores the warmth, \u2028melodiousness and power of the cello in conjunction with electronics. \u2028Music For Breathing evokes this transitory moment: a place and time where language runs out, \u2028communication and information lose their functions, sound and meaning do not correspond. Facts do not correspond to contexts. Spaced Out in Paradise. The last degree of the structure, the \u2028loss of memory. The lost voice.\n\n\u2028The album also features our 12-year-old daughter Yoko Afi on cello and vocals. It reflects \u2028a period of free sound experimentation influenced both by romantic composers of the late\u2028 19th \/ early 20th centuries and contemporary electronic music. The pieces you hear were composed, arranged, and recorded \u2028with the joy and melancholy of \"those who do not know\". In other words, \"with the arrogance \u2028of a second childhood\" as Derek Jarman once put it. 'Agile and candid as a child'(1).\n\n1) Manifesto da Poesia Pau-Brasil, Oswald de Andrade, Correio da Manhã, 18 de Março de 1924.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slum Dunk","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50460688679243,"sku":"2014724","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_f0dab460_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727236694","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/music-for-breathing","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}