AT SOURCE
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Caterina Barbieri & Bendik Giske's At Source resounds music as wellspring, that which is essential and unknowable, and yet utterly primary. It finds two acclaimed composer-musicians building a world together in self-contained collaboration between analogue synthesis and an extended approach to the saxophone that conjures its own universe of sound. It is at once intimate and cosmic, drawing on the challenges and possibilities of their artistic exchange, tearing down technique to access all the expansive possibilities of their sonic meeting point.
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Caterina Barbieri and Bendik Giske - At Source
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Caterina Barbieri & Bendik Giske's At Source resounds music as wellspring, that which is essential and unknowable, and yet utterly primary. It finds two acclaimed composer-musicians building a world together in self-contained collaboration between analogue synthesis and an extended approach to the saxophone that conjures its own universe of sound. It is at once intimate and cosmic, drawing on the challenges and possibilities of their artistic exchange, tearing down technique to access all the expansive possibilities of their sonic meeting point.
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MYUTHAFOO
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"Myuthafoo" teases an ecosystem where technology and biology are intertwined, and where the past, present and future are part of the same essential narrative. Written at the same time as "Ecstatic Computation" and now presented as its sister album, “Myuthafoo” is based on the same creative sequencing processes that playfully unravel Barbieri’s deep-rooted interest in time, space, memory and emotion. Both cosmic and kosmische, this music gazes at the stars from an atemporal vantage point, relying on synapse-popping psychedelic logic as well as established physics."
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“At her best, Barbieri doesn't just make music; a wizard, she excites the air" - Pitchfork
“Caterina Barbieri twists the traditions of 20th century Minimalism into wiry, futuristic shapes. Myuthafoo draws the listener into a deceptively uncomfortable trance, an exploration of electronic music at its most mystical and alien.” - Bandcamp
"Like laser beams intersecting in the night sky, the edges of melodic lines fray into the silence around them, shimmering with invisible energies out into the cosmos." - The Quietus
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Caterina Barbieri is set to release a sister album of her 2019's acclaimed “Ectatic Computation”. “Myuthafoo“ will be out on June 16. Available as LP (black and red), CD and digital.
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"Myuthafoo" teases an ecosystem where technology and biology are intertwined, and where the past, present and future are part of the same essential narrative. Written at the same time as "Ecstatic Computation" and now presented as its sister album, “Myuthafoo” is based on the same creative sequencing processes that playfully unravel Barbieri’s deep-rooted interest in time, space, memory and emotion. Both cosmic and kosmische, this music gazes at the stars from an atemporal vantage point, relying on synapse-popping psychedelic logic as well as established physics."
PRESS RELEASE
“At her best, Barbieri doesn't just make music; a wizard, she excites the air" - Pitchfork
“Caterina Barbieri twists the traditions of 20th century Minimalism into wiry, futuristic shapes. Myuthafoo draws the listener into a deceptively uncomfortable trance, an exploration of electronic music at its most mystical and alien.” - Bandcamp
"Like laser beams intersecting in the night sky, the edges of melodic lines fray into the silence around them, shimmering with invisible energies out into the cosmos." - The Quietus
SPIRIT EXIT
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‘Spirit Exit’ is now out on light-years. Available on 2LP (Black and coloured vinyl versions), CD and digital.
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“The musical vortexes of Caterina Barbieri rewire time and space. Listening to the Italian composer and modular synth virtuoso has felt like traveling at light-speed and slow-motion all at once since 2017’s breakthrough double-album Patterns Of Consciousness. 2019’s acclaimed Ecstatic Computation pushed even further with the lead single “Fantas”, where a haunting melody hurtling towards its supernova climax felt like witnessing the life and death of a burning star. Far beyond any new age trope or modern synth trend, her music stands alone in its ecstatic intensity and cataclysmic emotional impact. Marking the debut album on her new label light-years, Barbieri now delivers her most profound work yet — a journey through inner-space as vast as a universe and as intimate as a heartbeat. The Spirit Exit opens and we fall in. “
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“If there is a broader aim of Barbieri's work then it's to break the bonds of forces that all too often hold us in stasis, that keep us closed off from the world. Her music is deeply psychedelic and, by extension, subversive; like nature its effects can't quite be narrowed down or predicted.” - NPR
For music that evokes empty clubs and shuttered churches, built on patterns dictated by a “mechanical fortune teller,” its humanity is its most haunting quality. — Pitchfork
We can’t know where the spirit goes, but as Caterina Barbieri’s music continues to stretch towards new dimensions, the journey feels every bit as thrilling and blissful as the possible destination. — Electronic Sound
[Spirit Exit] is Barbieri’s most personal album, one that draws on the transcendental structures of her earlier work while acting as an imprint of her own emotional state at the time. — Fact Mag
On Spirit Exit, Barbieri is closer than ever to club territory and the ecstatic. — The Wire
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‘Spirit Exit’ is now out on light-years. Available on 2LP (Black and coloured vinyl versions), CD and digital.
ORDER SPIRIT EXIT
“The musical vortexes of Caterina Barbieri rewire time and space. Listening to the Italian composer and modular synth virtuoso has felt like traveling at light-speed and slow-motion all at once since 2017’s breakthrough double-album Patterns Of Consciousness. 2019’s acclaimed Ecstatic Computation pushed even further with the lead single “Fantas”, where a haunting melody hurtling towards its supernova climax felt like witnessing the life and death of a burning star. Far beyond any new age trope or modern synth trend, her music stands alone in its ecstatic intensity and cataclysmic emotional impact. Marking the debut album on her new label light-years, Barbieri now delivers her most profound work yet — a journey through inner-space as vast as a universe and as intimate as a heartbeat. The Spirit Exit opens and we fall in. “
PRESS RELEASE ︎︎︎
“If there is a broader aim of Barbieri's work then it's to break the bonds of forces that all too often hold us in stasis, that keep us closed off from the world. Her music is deeply psychedelic and, by extension, subversive; like nature its effects can't quite be narrowed down or predicted.” - NPR
For music that evokes empty clubs and shuttered churches, built on patterns dictated by a “mechanical fortune teller,” its humanity is its most haunting quality. — Pitchfork
We can’t know where the spirit goes, but as Caterina Barbieri’s music continues to stretch towards new dimensions, the journey feels every bit as thrilling and blissful as the possible destination. — Electronic Sound
[Spirit Exit] is Barbieri’s most personal album, one that draws on the transcendental structures of her earlier work while acting as an imprint of her own emotional state at the time. — Fact Mag
On Spirit Exit, Barbieri is closer than ever to club territory and the ecstatic. — The Wire
