In the novel there is a moment “employees” of the Danish author Olga Ravan, where you ask: what happened to the ground and why is this still a person? The plot plays on a spaceship, consists of interrogations protocols with an opaque main character: inside, and the longer you read, how they describe their daily life, the more the humanoid blurs the humanoid. The situation is similar to the Hymnal, the new album of the musician Lira Pramuk, living in Berlin.
In addition to many other levels, the music of American transformers flashes: also a search for a person in non -human. You should know: Pramuk, who is already singing in the choir of his controversial colleague, US Holly Hurndon, is a master: in vocals. Pramuk is sometimes perceived by a whisper, since a sound hiss is created, so that an unheard of sound signature is created, voiced by “ah” in this sense.
Pramuk likes to introduce the effects of alienation of his own voice, and then leave the individual fragments of the layer around the layer and thus creates fragile skeletons that are destroyed for several seconds. The voice is mainly used in Pramuke as a leitmotif and instrument. The sound of the sound of Pramuke always moves along the border with human ability and at the same time marks a kind of transitional rite to the humanoid.
However, while in the novel it is equal, the view from the cosmos is directed to Earth, the opposite occurs in the music of the “anthem”. He threw the album, said Pramuk in advance, also an astrological view of the world. You can reject this as an esoteric behavior of a new age, to perceive this prospect seriously as Pramuk himself.
Lira Pramuk: “Anthem” (7k! Records/pop.sill)
And so you can ask her: in what relations are we, people, are we in space in space? Why not, at the time when the Megalomaniac Tech Millionaires from the silicone valley has long been stuck on colonized Mars after they put the Earth?
Listening to plants during germination
Pramuk sets in motion thoughts of destruction, and in the best case, she strives for resuscitation. In her music, not only something that is scientifically like, but also somewhat deeply secular. Perhaps music can be called promising nature. Although the voices are incomprehensible, you think that you can listen to the plants in the first song “REWILD”.
“REWILD” means something like renutation and contains the desire to restore what is destroyed. The basis for this is to make the process of growth of stems and kidneys audible – to ensure the arrangements of the strings of Pramuk of the sonar quartet. At a time when Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky music were shot into space, this is also.
From a purely musical point of view, the music of Pramuke explores the boundaries in the interaction between the vocal setting and arrangements of strings. On Babylon, he catches and roars, in the background of a tactful flake, an incomprehensible temple and all overlapping bass, which sounds more and more menacingly than you have to endure it. Finally, “gravity” even creates a kind of atmosphere of the ends, which creates a sound layer around the sound layer – from increasing the load and pipes.
The sky clarifies between these two songs, gives a clear idea of the sun’s rays. The lines suddenly sound affirmative on the Meridian, and Pramuk sings at least for a short time. Your lyrics as a stuttering sound poem: “Licking the sun / licking strength.” A performive connection between man, sun and earth as a conciliatory moment. That is why, ultimately, this may be possible in this great sound landscape called “Anthem”.
