Damian Dalla Torre // People Pleaser LP [BLACK]

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Tobiraインストアショーケースでも素敵なライブを披露してくれたドイツ・ライプツィヒのサックス奏者Damian Dalla Torreが、2026年6月に同国ミュンヘンのSquamaからリリースしたレコードです。

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12" black 180gram vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. Intro / Sprouts 03:00
2. Longitude 07:28
3. Nacre 01:58
4. Chives 06:20
5. Bupi 02:07
6. Slant 04:15
7. Loops 01:52
8. Tenki Ame ft. Manami Kakudo 04:35

Text excerpt from the label:

"...People Pleaser begins in that quiet shift of confidence.

The title stayed with him for months before he committed to it. “It was a working title for a long time,” he says. “I didn’t actually think I would use it. But this term also felt somehow relevant in connection with the phase of self-negotiation during the development process. Some aspects are related to pressure, others are positive.” The ambiguity felt right. Rather than presenting it as a statement, Dalla Torre leaves it open, an invitation rather than a confession. 

He began writing the album in December 2024, shortly after completing his previous record. Finishing an album, for Dalla Torre, is a process of release, “you get really into it, maybe too detailed, you might try to please. In the end, I learned to be at ease with my own way of expression. The moment you release your album, it takes on many different bodies of perception, a life of its own, so that it can simultaneously meet or break expectations, and I learned to sympathize with the loss of control over it.“

At the centre of People Pleaser is collaboration. Guitarist Bertram Burkert, whose playing stretches from classical delicacy to electric abstraction, joined Dalla Torre in the studio for an intensive three-day session, recording a wide palette of textures that would become the backbone of the album. Vocalist Laura Zöschg, a key live collaborator, harpist Babett Niclas, organist Felix Römer, tape experimentalist Markus Rom, marimba and vibraphonist Volker Heuken and Japanese artist Manami Kakudo also contribute, creating a sound that feels intimate yet expansive.

Dalla Torre’s process remains distinctive. “I have a quite chaotic archive,” he admits. “All the recordings I do, I internalise. Sometimes I have a sketch and I remember another recording somewhere and I feel like, okay, that could be the same tonality, the same vibe.” Rather than composing in straight lines, he assembles. Fragments, field recordings and live performances are layered gradually into something cohesive over time. “It’s more like archive work.”

Geography continues to shape his sound world. Birds recorded in Leipzig sit alongside rain captured in Kobe, Japan. During a summer residency high in the Italian mountains at 2,500 metres above sea level, he and his collaborators recorded surrounded by elemental sound. “There was just a stove where you had to make fire to cook,” he recalls, “on one track you can hear the fire crackling in the background.” Rather than removing ambience, he integrates it. “I really got into field recording. The power of integrating ambience into the music is huge. My phone is always on record. I go through life just listening.”"

Artist : Damian Dalla Torre

Label : Squama

cat no : SQM039

Release date : 12th June 2026