Remansum | TRS091
At last! After what seems like months working on the packaging for the new absolutely beautiful release from Berlin based Argentinian composer/ musician Mario Verandi…his new album Remansum is here! In Spanish the word “remanso” (backwater) comes from the Latin “remansum”…meaning the action of stopping and remaining in place…especially in an inherently idyllic place, where beautiful music such as this can be heard!
As Mario himself says about his new album…
”I had some material from past electroacoustic “academic” works that I know would be great to use in my ambient music. These were created through long manipulation processes of real sounds (objects and instruments). In other words they are custom made sounds. My basic inspiration for “Remansum” came from listening to and improvising on this sound material. The improvisations were on a piano, and I tried to find melodic patterns and harmonies that would go well with these sound textures. My music has many influences, and I could point in particular to the Impressionists (Debussy, Satie …), where the focus in on mood and atmosphere. I aimed to combine these impressionistic elements with sparse minimalistic melodies and distinct electronic sounds.”
As usual,TRS091 comes in two distinctly different physical versions. The deluxe, limited edition version, in an edition of only 75 copies, comes in the form of a hand made, 12” lathe cut record in an extensively handworked, heavy weight, recycled chipboard jacket. Each jacket has been uniquely collaged on the front with torn and reassembled photographs from a 100 year old book on travels in Spain, with each collage in the form of an original and architecturally modified and mysterious landscape. Each collage is then surrounded by a frame of tissue thin vellum that has been painstakingly individually sized, cut out, and meticulously applied. The vellum is then stamped with a set of vintage, pastoral French rubber stamps, and the artists name and title. On the back of each jacket are other abstracted corner sections of pastoral fragments with more extensive floral hand stamping, and each then has adhered to it a black 5’ envelope containing the factory pressed CD of the album as well, in it’s own cotton inner sleeve. Centered on this black envelope is a smaller antique envelope, also hand modified, and each of these contains a unique, negative transparency from a museum collection of the Arts of Antiquity. Each record then comes in its own protective poly sleeve.
The supremely clean sounding and highest quality lathe cut records were as ever manufactured by Michael Lawrence at Bladud Flies, in Wales, UK…
As usual the copies that you see pictured may or may not be the one that you receive as they are all uniquely different.
There is also a beautiful CD digipak version of this album in an edition of 120 copies. The design of these was made by photographing several negative transparencies though a dirty window, and then hand modifying them. These are some of the large negatives used in the deluxe version, that come from a museum collection of the Arts of Antiquity. So lovely!
This release will ship the first week of July 2020.
Mario Verandi is an argentinean-born composer, musician, sound artist and producer living in Berlin. He primarily works with new technologies as an aid to exploring and expanding the boundaries of sound, space and perception. His work is wide-ranging and includes electroacoustic compositions, media installations, live performances, music for dance, radio works as well as collaborations with artists.
He has won numerous prizes and been awarded several artist residencies, one of which brought him to live in Berlin in 2000.
