Maritime skin, meren elävä nahka (cassette tape)
Split cassette with Jean-Michel Kampara
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C-38 w/ recycled blue shell, xerox on metallic silver cardstock j card
released 11 August 2025 from Hot Releases
Maritime skin, meren elävä nahka is a split album by two artists brought together by the Baltic sea. Both sides deftly elaborate on field recordings taken underwater with the same hydrophone in Ruissalo, Finland. From the same body of water and the same tool, two different experimental interpretations bifurcate, and a conversation develops. A fluid exchange reverberates not only between the two sides, but also within the tracks and their multifarious layers: the last sounds of a harp that Allesandre built in situ at Lump gallery—recorded moments before its disassembly, Kampara’s 12-string guitar, Allesandre’s grandmother’s harmonium, poems read aloud, the deliverance of a divinatory message, steps, legs, keyboards, fingers. What may be a distant storm could also be a face momentarily disfigured by the wind. In Maritime skin, meren elävä nahka, the past permeates the present as a soaked garment dries under the sun. Sound behaves like liquid memory, while listening and remembering meet in the act of floating. Our bodies and senses are half-submerged, pulled back and forth between water and air. Each track offers a new way to be received by water. Underneath all these permutations, the latent impulse is to let go and drift, to make space for the hidden sounds to come out and find us.
-Marta Núñez Pouzols
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