Manja Ristić // Sargassum aeterna LP

当店おなじみセルビアのバイオリニストManja Ristićが、2025年6月にギリシャ・アテネの実験レーベルRekem Recordsから200部限定でリリースしたレコードです。

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12" black vinyl.
Includes insert.
Edition of 200. 

Tracklist:

1. Wounded Sky 09:00
2. The Abyss 09:00
3. Sacred Land 10:01
4. Halcyon's Nest 08:40

Rekem Records:

"Rekem Records presents the new album by artist and researcher, Manja Ristić. A classically trained musician and composer whose work extends to dance, theatre and movie production, Ristić also focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to sound, field recording, and experimental radio arts. In the last decade, she has published sound art independently and through labels and publishing bodies such as LINE, mappa, Skupina, Unfathomless, tsss tapes, DASA tapes, and many more. In this most recent work she presents four ambient compositions, situated in what journalist Lujo Parežanin aptly describes as ‘listening-as-speculation’."

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From the artist:

"Sargassum aeterna is a programmatic four-track album framed by a fantastical narrative set in a dystopian future—the year 2221—where today’s social and ecological contradictions have reached their most extreme conclusions. Within this future world, we witness catastrophes largely of human making: disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field, a global war (North vs. South), destructive ocean mining, and the suspension of human rights. Amid the gloom, however, there are sanctuaries: the Scottish Isle of Arran, “home to the child-God Luka” (presumably depicted on the album cover), and the island of Mljet in the Adriatic, just southwest of Korčula, where “coralligenous species flourish, alongside insects, small mammals, and the few remaining traces of marine life.”

Manja renders this imagined world into sound with her signature subtlety and clarity, though her compositions are never one-dimensional. There is anxiety, but also tranquility; trepidation, but also melancholia. The sonic palette is deliberately sparse: field recordings that capture both the intensity and desolation of life by the sea, instrumental drones, and the ever-present hydrophones. The dramaturgy is mostly static, creating a suspended feeling—a sense of ominous stillness.

Sargassum aeterna is distinctly uncanny. It employs the technique of estranging familiar sounds to evoke a soundscape of a future that may have already begun to bleed into our present. The signs are unmistakable: the ecological crisis, the disregard for human life in the Mediterranean and along Europe’s borders, looming imperial wars, genocides committed with impunity, the steady rise of fascism.

Only the child-God can save us—him, and the unconditional gentleness of Manja’s music."

Artist : Manja Ristić

Label : Rekem Records