Lyra Pramuk shares a mix, premiering on AQNB today. The Berlin-based, classically-trained singer, composer, and performance artist is known for her haunting vocal tracks that are tugged out of the organic and into the ethereal realms by delicate electronic manipulations. Committed to the self-actualising potential of feeling, empathy, and listening — as well as a collective, affirmative action — the music is often transcendent and always beguiling.
“It’s probably the angriest or most intense mix I’ve made, but it’s quite empowered too”, writes Pramuk about this ‘Self-Assembly mix’ that includes music by contemporaries like Stine Janvin, Klein, Laurel Halo and Yves Tumor, alongside creative pioneers like Meredith Monk, Lena Platonos, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Psychic TV. Among the more unexpected elements of the selection are prodigious West African songs by Khalifa Ould Eide & Dimi Mint Abba from Mauritania and Aby Ngana Diop of Senegal, as well as some Scandinavian electro folk by Hedningarna. Together, the emotive synth experiments and DIY modular bursts dip in and out from distant voices speaking words that are both familiar and unfamiliar, as a fragile thread that ties the shared story of humanity together.**
TRACK LISTING
Caterina Barbieri – Information Needed to Create an Entire Body
Lena Platonos – Bloody Shadows from a Distance
Brockhampton – District
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Jigsaw Feeling
Vito D’Angelo, Vincenzo Ferrara, Pietro Vallone – Novena Di Natale
rkss – Bat and cathy leads, basses, top perc and fxes, great EDM melodies etc. Inspired by such top producers, as W&W, Showtek
Lyra Pramuk – unreleased
Lucky Dragons – Realistic Rhythm
Ami Yoshida (with Tamaru) – Torso
Nazif Celaj, Nikolin Likaj, Arap Celoleskaj, Fatbardha Brahimi – Vito, Ta Kam Silloine
Anne Gillis – Untitled 2
Bessie Jones and group – Sometimes
Klein – Explay
Meredith Monk – Trance
Laurel Halo – Moontalk
Khalifa Ould Eide & Dimi Mint Abba – Hassaniya Love Poem
The Knife, Planningtorock, Mt. Sims – Variation of Birds
Stine Janvin – Glitch
Isabella – Penchant Disenchant
Aby Ngana Diop – Yaya Penda Mbaye
Psychic TV – Sisuele
Arca – Think of (ft. Mica Levi & Massacooraman)
Yves Tumor – Let The Lioness In You Flow Freely
Tessela – Hackney Parrot (10_Ton_Mix)**
Lyra Pramuk releases ‘AQNB mix’ via the London-based publication on November 16, 2018.
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