This was my submission for the Fanel Remix contest in March 2021. The original can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/fanelonline/stop-breathing-extract
and here: https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/0pr58QKh5mSu3y0PEec4rT
Fanel's soundcloud page is here: https://soundcloud.com/fanelonline

FANEL - Stop Breathing (Hirshy Remix)

	Vacuum Instability is a work for an ensemble of eight musicians. The title is derived from a news article related to the probable scientific discovery of the Higgs boson: "A concept known as vacuum instability could result, billions of years from now, in a new universe opening up in the present one and replacing it." - BBC News, 19th February 2013. The idea of the inner workings of the Cosmos always fascinated me, and the fact that the universe could 'renew' itself in such a way is just so surprising. I guess these ideas are very similar to ideas about music material's variation and contrast.

BBC Radio 3 live recording on the 15th of March of 2013 at BBC Maida Vale Studios.

Octet = BBC Symphony Orchestra players + Guildhall School of Music and Drama students

Richard Baker - conductor

<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3">BBC Radio 3 website</a>

Vacuum Instability

From the album Clear Language available September 22, 2017 from Western Vinyl

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A decade-plus on the road, near-constant musical output, and shifting creative priorities caused the revered Austin duo, comprised of multi-instrumentalists Rob Lowe and Michael Muller, to soberly assess the band’s future. What, in the form of Balmorhea, was there left to say? And did they have the energy to say it? 
 
Stranger, the group’s maximalist, genre-leaping full-length from 2012, had already seemed to trace the group’s farthest bounds. And, over the years, they’d worked with a roving cast of accomplished string and rhythm players to craft a glassy-eyed, sage-brushed, instrumental Americana that, while celebrated in The New Yorker, Pitchfork and The Atlantic, among myriad other press, and attracting the film, ad, and television worlds risked pigeonholing them for good. 

As they had in the beginning, in 2006, Muller and Lowe worked simply and with restraint, letting intuition guide them as they molded the 10 elegant, spacious gestures that comprise Clear Language.  A relaxed, clear-eyed sense of reflection flows gracefully through the album as these two old friends transmit unfettered meaning through simple sonic gestures that resonate with the cosmos as much as they echo the pulse of a human heart.

Clear Language

Balmorhea - "Clear Language"

Extract from the track Stop Breathing - out on the 27th of September
Album HUMAN - out in November 2019

Stop Breathing (Extract)

Much more than a radiant electro-pop music infused with Japanese culture, FANEL refuses to choose between her western indie pop background and her love for Japanese traditional music and culture.
This perpetual dialogue, this syncretism between extreme technology and traditions, FANEL injects it in her music by the fusion of organic traditional instruments (from Asia and Europe) and electronic textures, creating unique soundscapes.
She makes light of the languages, their rhythms and tones by singing in English, Japanese and sometimes in French. The one who can picture a western indie electro-pop artist composing a soundtrack for a Ghibli movie may have a slight idea of FANEL's sound. 

Her song Mén from her debut album Human recently featured in the MARVEL animated series HIT MONKEY.

After 2 EPs, an album released in Nov 2019, over hundred concerts in France, Japan and the UK, FANEL decided to build a new show with the Spanish photographer Joan Tomas called THE THIN PLACE. A video-mapping live show celebrating their attachment to Okinawa and their perspective as European artists ; a place where two worlds meet.
Solo on stage since 2023, FANEL offers a dancy and epic electronica vibe. 
A One-woman-band that moves your feet and gets your spirit on a trip.

Stop Breathing (Extract)

FANEL

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