claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmo // quilted lament TAPE [PRE-ORDER]

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アメリカ・テキサスのアンビエント作家claire rousayとGretchen Korsmoが、2025年6月にスロバキアの実験／オールジャンルレーベルMappaからリリースした共作カセットです。

物音を随所に散りばめたドリーミーなアンビエント・フォーク7曲を収録。

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Cassette in norelco case.

Tracklist:

1. find yourself in a hole on the beach 06:48
2. thick walls, thin walls 05:05
3. nothing to dread 03:45
4. kitchen duet 01:09
5. human imperfection 03:05
6. sunday morning 05:38
7. spiral branches 03:21

Mappa:

"Under the right conditions, half-remembered dreams can meld seamlessly into hazy present moments. Time spent alone can be an emotional blank canvas, and an opportunity to deconstruct sense and feeling; a patchwork of snippets both rooted in memory and abstracted from reality. The title of ‘quilted lament’ perfectly captures the way Gretchen Korsmo and claire rousay’s overlapping missions come together to do just this. Worn polaroid melodies and snatched everyday noises seem overheard through windows onto the street. They feel emotionally twinned, claire and Gretchen, it’s not always possible to tell where one ends and the other begins. Their musical thoughts and DNA are sewn together into a mini symphony of warmly embracing movements.

Built remotely between pre-existing friends in the underground music scene, the duo layered ideas onto audio files, and sent them back (and forth). And these luscious instrumentals truly do feel assembled by intuition, casually crafted with little need for guidance. “claire and I are both emo,” explains Korsmo. “We are both former texas-dwellers [too] and relate over both the woes and beauties of being in the American DIY experimental music scene.” Buoyant piano keys and hushed layer vocals tracks sit alongside a humming field-recorded scrapbook; a neighbour caught in a moment of private inspiration while street noise elevates; a private hymnal in the bathroom while the washing machine ends its cycle. Both artists take field sounds from a wealth of Zoom and Tascam recordings made in the last half-decade in Santa Fe, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Kamakura, Japan and elsewhere – from a baseball game announcer in Santa Fe, to the sound of a friend eating a juicy peach. At times, the bedroom walls seem to grow thin amid atmospheric creaks and disembodied whispers. Despite its very emo core, this is a recording engulfed in an intense sense of bliss, more at peace than we’ve heard either artist before."

Artist : claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmo

Label : Mappa

cat no : MAP057