Lyra Pramuk - Delta [2CD]

Bedroom Community

£12.22

Format: 2CD
Catalogue No.: HVALUR39CD
Barcode: 5051142009456
Release Date: 24 Sep 2021
Genre: Ambient / Experimental / Futuristic Folk

'Fountain is too rich in scope and meaning to be reduced to just a salve, but there’s no doubt it’s an oh-so-timely reminder that the body is a site of infinite possibility' - 8.2 Pitchfork

On Delta, a dozen artists across four continents freely interpret Fountain across a double LP, again featuring Donna Huanca’s surreal artwork, and the unearthly graphic manipulations of Nufolklore Studios. Remaining faithful to Fountain’s presentation, Lyra’s curation reflects her commitment to stylistic diversity, with the old guard and the next wave alongside each other. Where some artists chose to rework existing works, others composed new material from fragments found across the record. The results showcase the very themes of wordless identity conflict and technological concerns that Lyra and her foremothers have projected.

PRESS:
RA news here: https://ra.co/news/75634
Pitchfork (US)
https://pitchfork.com/news/lyra-pramuk-announces-remix-album-shares-new-vessel-rework-listen/

Crack (UK)
https://crackmagazine.net/2021/07/lyra-pramuk-enlists-eris-drew-tygapaw-and-hudson-mohawke-for-fountain-remix-album/

DJ Mag UK
https://djmag.com/news/hudson-mohawke-eris-drew-kmru-more-remix-lyra-pramuk-s-fountain-new-double-lp

The Quietus (UK)
https://thequietus.com/articles/30183-lyra-pramuk-remix-album-delta

The Vinyl Factory (UK)
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/lyra-pramuk-taps-kmru-eris-drew-tygapaw-for-fountain-remix-album/

Inverted Audio (UK)
https://inverted-audio.com/lyra-pramuks-fountain-gains-remixes-from-kmru-caterina-barbieri-eris-drew-vessel/

Valgeir Sigurdsson marries elements of Lyra’s entire catalogue into work that combines the limitless highs of Sigur Ros and the steady pulse of The Knife. KMRU cloaks Lyra in a hazy film, soundtracking the depths of space embedded within the ghosts of jungle past. Gabber Modus Operandi expose the realities of artificial nature in a multicoloured rave dystopia. Eris Drew’s double opus takes the tenets of her philosophies into both ambient and peaktime expressions of the trip, the things that lead to the decision before, and the portals that can open up after.

Ben Frost dissolves Cradle’s deep and tremulous hymn in analogue warble, distressed tape spooling out of control and breaking up over the heavens, while remaining oddly serene. Heaven In Stereo conjures up post-rock with trap drums out of Gossip, buried in bass weight and dub space. Nailah Hunter and Tygapaw transform New Moon into an earthbound ode to nature and a pounding trance state induction, while Caterina Barbieri and Hudson Mohawke extract and amplify Tendril’s mind and soul. Vessel takes what feels like the entire album and builds it up to a frantic climax before subsuming into Enoesque pastoralia.

Alongside Delta, Lyra has collaborated with Spitfire Audio to develop Siren Songs, a free plug-in for their LABS series made from playable samples from Fountain, able to work across DAWs in multiple formats. By removing barriers to access, the listener can craft their own responses to the album’s themes, or use its language to express their innermost feelings in their own works.

Life and society emerge where water tessellates over land and provides fertile soil. The chances of evolution that made them interact as they did could have had meaningful environmental consequences had things developed differently. For Lyra Pramuk, that fertile geology provides the ground for her albums. Fountain was that burst of water and swell of energy that propelled her to critical acclaim. Delta is a new take on a traditional remix album, centred on transgenerational dialogue and global storytelling, and will be released again via Iceland’s Bedroom Community label. Projecting Fountain through prisms, wordless songs fractalize into lush creations that blossom with new life.

The ability to have such sheer diversity of material in one place is thanks to the global increase in accessible technologies, fueling an explosion of creativity and genre exploration that was thought of as unthinkable in our lifetimes. Like its namesake, Delta is a point where creative flows meet and triangulate, where global and personal folk histories are presented in novel ways, where transcultural collaboration is celebrated, where many worlds emerge from the depths below.

RIYL: The Knife, Spacetime Continuum, Lorenzo Senni, the soundtrack to Planete Sauvage, 3:45 AM by the front left speaker, 7:45 AM as light pours in and everything winds down.

PREVIOUS PRESS FOR 'FOUNTAIN'
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lyra-pramuk-fountain/

News on Pitchfork "5 New Albums You Should Listen to Now”: https://pitchfork.com/news/5-new-albums-you-should-listen-to-now-the-weeknd-zebra-katz-j-balvin-and-more/

Interview on The Quietus (UK): https://thequietus.com/articles/27984-lyra-interview

The GQ Style UK feature is online now: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/berlin-artists-2020

FACT featured the release in the list they made for Bandcamp last Friday: https://www.factmag.com/2020/03/20/bandcamp-artist-day-playlist/

Featured in “The 10 best vinyl releases this week” on The Vinyl Factory (UK): https://thevinylfactory.com/features/10-best-new-vinyl-releases-this-week-21st-march/

Review on The Quietus (UK): https://thequietus.com/articles/27992-lyra-pramuk-fountain-review

Featured on "best new albums in March” column on The Vinyl Factory: https://thevinylfactory.com/features/best-new-albums-march-2020/

Gossip featured on SPEX (Germany) playlist: https://spex.de/die-musik-zur-zeit-fuer-den-maerz-ist-da/
They will feature the album as album of the week!

The interview on Missy Mag (Berlin), previously featured on their March issue is now up on the site: https://missy-magazine.de/blog/2020/03/18/wir-koennen-die-zeit-einfrieren/

Featured on Spring Music Preview” column on A Closer Listen (UK): https://acloserlisten.com/2020/03/19/spring-music-preview-2020-experimental/

SIDE A / CD1
Lyra Pramuk 01 Offering - Valgeir Sigurdsson
Lyra Pramuk 02 Witness (Selfless Rework) - Colin Self
Lyra Pramuk 03 Constructs of Still - KMRU
Lyra Pramuk 04 Tendril (Midnight Peach Rework) - Hudson Mohawke
SIDE B
Lyra Pramuk 05 Returnless - Kara-Lis Coverdale
Lyra Pramuk 06 Tendril (Germinative Rework) - Caterina Barbieri
Lyra Pramuk 07 Fountain (ars amatoria) - Vessel
SIDE C / CD 2
Lyra Pramuk 08 Sugarcube Revelations - Eris Drew
Lyra Pramuk 09 Everything is Beautiful & Alive - Eris Drew
Lyra Pramuk 10 Cradle (Patience Rework) - Ben Frost
Lyra Pramuk 11 Kaca Bulan Baru - Gabber Modus Operandi
SIDE D
Lyra Pramuk 12 Gossip (Catalyst Rework) - Heaven in Stereo
Lyra Pramuk 13 New Moon (Distant Shores Rework) - Nailah Hunter
Lyra Pramuk 14 New Moon (In Pisces Rework) - Tygapaw