Any // Mega Mercy LP

カナダのアンビエント作家Anyが、2025年6月にイギリス・マンチェスターのレフトフィールド・ダンスレーベルsfericから300部限定でリリースしたレコードです。

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12" black vinyl.
Edition of 300. 

Tracklist:

1. Hebammerie 03:14
2. Mega Mercy 02:12
3. All I Said Was Where 02:24
4. That's Not My Bell 03:34
5. 2hrsn0nStopw0rship 02:32
6. Without A Doubt 03:08
7. Weather Like Tide 03:52

Text via the label: 

"Downbeat, dreamy charm by Greco-Canadian debutee Any, coming outta nowhere with a quietly compelling blend of harps and ohrwurm hooks including co-production and chops by Klein/Lolina spar LA Timpa. Think Astrid Sonne and Tirzah on the terrace with Sissi Rada, and sink into that warm embrace pronto.

Greco-Canadian artist Any was bedding down in a Cretan squat when the album's title, μέγα ελεός in Greek, boomed from loudspeakers next to a bonfire, courtesy of a midnight Orthodox church sermon. Moving to the sunny, ancient island had provided her with an escape from big city burnout, but she ended staying far longer than expected - years rather than months. It’s this prolonged sense of suspension that provides the album with its wandering spirit, using harp as an emotional core.

Listening to Breton music made on the Celtic harp from artists like Kristen Noguès and Alan Stivell, Any sketched out song outlines that were then tweaked by Lagos-born, Toronto-raised journeyman LA Timpa, who flew out to Crete last summer to put his idiosyncratic stamp on the record. Like the dusty songs on Astrid Sonne's 'Great Doubt, ‘MEGA MERCY' sounds as if its drum line was duped on dictaphone from an old beat tape, then spliced with field recordings and vocals.

Half sung, half spoken, she murmurs around the beat, not exactly over it, adding circuitous, boss-tuned harp twangs when necessary. It's music that's spartan rather than lo-fi; a sort of bare-bones reaction to electroacoustic experimentation and outsider folk. It makes perfect sense that an artist as thematically on-point as LA Timpa is involved - Any's instrumental vamps are roughly pasted around pinprick boom-bap snaps and crunchy foley denouements, eventually cooled into contemplative Nala Sinephro-esque meditations.

Sections bring to mind Tirzah's most psychedelic early excursions, with dry asides set against a slurping, off-axis beatbox loop and distant, barely-audible synths. The record is tied up on 'WEATHER LIKE TIDE', an instrumental callback to the opener, book-ending the album with a melancholy, humid kinda ambient folk, purposefully melting the timeline."

Artist : Any

Label : sferic

cat no : SFERIC17