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Worlding With Earth

by Slowfoam

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1.
Silk Song & Viridescence 06:24
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2.
Phantom Memories, Iambic Limbs 03:12
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3.
Dripping Marshes on Flower Skin 03:14
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Soft Montage of Hypotactic Logic 04:24
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5.
Playfully Rendered 03:27
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Relief Forged on Ancient Plateaus 03:13
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Apricate 03:56
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Sporadic Dawning 03:33
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I Left This Planet to Return a Mist 03:00
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Boomkat Review:
Slowfoam aka Madelyn Byrd's excellent Mappa debut is inspired by Donna Haraway's enduring ecofeminist theories, highlighting the beauty that lies between the artificial and natural worlds, using subtle-but-complex synthesis, instrumental elements and eloquent environmental recordings on a tip that will appeal if yr into West Mineral Ltd., claire rousay, Félicia Atkinson, Jan Jelinek.

‘Worlding with Earth' de-emphasises the perceived hierarchy of acoustic v synthetic sounds, intertwining them to generate something holistic that's gloriously forward-facing. While their sounds can be lumped in with the post-Jelinek sprawl of after-hours neo-ambient psychedelia, there are crafty deviations that nudge them into new territory, rolling from sparky, hi-BPM rhythms to a delicate gauze of warm, billowing pads and hypnotic vocal loops.

On 'Relief Forged on Ancient Plateaus', the Berlin-based artist lets crackling sounds grow from glassy, Bola-esque pads, eventually using faint, choral voices to bring the track back down to earth. On 'Soft Montage of Hypotactic Logic', Byrd splices chirpy dialog samples ("what am I?") into soupy sonics, building a virtual eco-dome out of fritzed jazz drums, toy synths and hissing field recordings. At times, their ideas rub up against those of label-mate Atte Elias Kantonen, but where Kantonen prefers to exist in a realm of pure fantasy, Byrd proposes a reality that's in harmony with nature. Their environment teems with life.

released December 6, 2023

Composed, recorded and mixed by Madelyn Byrd (Slowfoam)
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Recorded in London and Berlin in 2022 and 2023, with field recordings from Croatia, in 2020
Saxophone and Accompaniment by Sarah Allada

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
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Cover art by Johanna Bath
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Layout and text by Basia Strzeżek
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Photography by Zoltan Czakó

Released by mappa as MAP041 in 2023

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released December 6, 2023

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