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Astrid Sonne is a Danish, London based composer and viola player. Throughout her acclaimed discography, Astrid Sonne has been carefully crafting different moods through electronic and acoustic instrumental endeavours.
On her most recent album “Great Doubt” (January 2024) this skill is refined, now with the distinct addition of the composer's own vocal in the fore. The tone of each track is unmistakably Sonne’s, structured around contrasts through an impeccable sense of timing. Lyrics on the album are sparse, merely highlighting different scenes or emotional states of being, leaving the music to fill in the blanks. Yet they also form a pattern of ambiguity, consolidated through the album title, searching for answers through looking at how and what you are asking, questions for the world, questions of love.
The viola, a trusted companion since Astrid Sonne’s youth, appears effortlessly throughout the album, fully integrated into the sonic universe; through a pizzicato driven arrangement in the poignant track “Almost” or along with booms and claps in mutated cinematic stabs during “Give my all”, paraphrasing Mariah Carey's 1997 ballad. Yet the string section also gives way to explorations of woodwinds, counterbalancing the bowed movements with digital brass and airy flutes. Finally, beats and detuned piano are fresh additions to the soundscape, cementing how Sonne’s practice is always evolving into new territories.
Albert Yeh is a performer and composer from San Francisco who makes experimental electronic music. His music combines diverse influences ranging from the Western musical canon, electronic and electroacoustic music, and progressive rock. Albert’s solo work is currently focused on examining the intersection between musical procedures and processes and emotional states and qualities.
On his second solo release, titled Motors/Pulses, Yeh expresses the persistent dread towards the ongoing acceleration and break down of societal processes following the release from lockdown that is now present as a persistent undercurrent through our everyday lives. Motors/Pulses was composed during times of supply shortages, logistical failures, and economic and political uncertainty. The album takes inspiration from tape music techniques, canonic processes, and spectralism, but defies categorization in terms of style or genre. The album’s unifying characteristics are its intricate harmonies, complex rhythms, and richly textured soundscapes.