In the summer of 2023 we welcomed a young @hellosulci into the Bricolage family with her debut, "Before The Echo".

Eighteen months later she returns with her sophomore effort, "Four Chambers".

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/four-chambers-bc091

The evolution of Sulci is clear on this latest set of tracks. There's a new found maturity and musicality. The album pulls in a plethora of influences and uses them to provide us with some more dancefloor friendly tracks, whilst keeping that distinct mellow vibe that Sulci has become known for. It's quite the combination. Rippling and rolling funk, melded into cosy ambience amid laid back vocal experiments.

"Four Chambers" starts off on a serene plain before kicking through the gears as we go and a more open minded approach to production has allowed for the vibrant and colourful elements to bloom into full focus as the warm, shifting percussion falls around them. There's also a celestial feel throughout as the ethereal vocals wax and wane among the numerous weaved melodies and pads.

Four Chambers (bc091)

Four Chambers

Sulci - Bloodsports (from the "Four Chambers" album)

Sulci - Libet's Delay (from the "Four Chambers" album)

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/vestige-leit-motif

"The word vestige is rich in nuanced meaning: a trace, a reminder, a residue, a fragment or relic of something that has been left behind, an echo from the past perhaps. There’s a time-stretching quality to this idea and things may not always be as they seem in the moment. As the artist explains, “This album is influenced by the many thousands of connections we have with so many people throughout our lives, big and small. These connections may be ephemeral and transient, or they may be long lasting and fulfilling. That all depends on the nature of the relationships we create and sustain throughout life, but either way we display a bit of ourselves in each interaction we have and leave behind a trace. A remnant. A vestige.”

Across its eight tracks, this concept is explored and imagined in musical form to superb effect. The trademark Fragile X production techniques of swirling and enveloping swathes of sound punctuated by moments of calm for reflection are fully utilised to create a powerful, at times almost theatrical, depiction of our journey through life. Waves crash against the rocks, the shoreline is weather beaten and battered, but then the heavens open and the light pours down.

There's something timeless and mysterious, even mystical, about the audio landscapes of 'Vestige' as there is with life itself. This is also reflected in the track titles. At times the mood can be brooding – 'Anam Cara', for example – while at others tingling with excitement as with 'Welcome Home'. The beatless aesthetic of See Blue Audio is also well represented on tracks live 'Seva' and 'Roots and the Tree of Life'. As 'Veni Vidi Amavi' closes the album, we're left with a sense of the wonder of life and how we are all just microscopic parts in the grand cosmos of existence."

Before You And I Were Us

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/four-chambers-bc091

Subject Matter

My remix of the Sulci track "Bloodsports".

Taken from the "Four Chambers" album.

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/four-chambers-bc091

Sulci - Bloodsports (Fragile X remix)

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/sarno-ultra-bc092

“Sarno Ultra” opens up a new musical chapter in the lives of Jon Worsley and Kayla Painter. Known for both their own solo material and their collaborative work in Jilk, these two underground stalwarts have come together for something entirely different on this new project.

Prepare for a sense altering trip that creates and traverses through a futuristic audio landscape and leaves no surface untouched.

Fractured vocals, intricate cascading rhythms, collapsing mechanical structures and pulsing textures carry the weight as we shift between moods and tempos with open eyes and ears.

There’s blasts of high energy percussion and glitch laden sound design that effortlessly mesh with the more melancholic sounds and brittle bliss that partners them. It’s an album that never sits still. Even in its quieter and warmer moments, “Sarno Ultra”, always keeps us guessing which exploratory path we’re headed down next.

“Sarno Ultra” is a debut album that drags you into a sonic whirlpool but embraces you while you’re there. Enjoy the experience.

Sarno Ultra

Sarno Ultra - Such Eyes (from the "Sarno Ultra" album)

Pattern Language

Totally Disconnected

P0lyRhythm - Where the Factories Dream

VICO - Feeling (Billbow Remix)

IT'S NEARLY TIME

Eduarda - Almendra Axel

Drifting in the audio void.  Somewhere between the chaos and the calm.
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Production (Fragile X) 
Label Owner (soundcloud.com/bricolage-g5)
Sleep Research as (soundcloud.com/leit-motif-sleeper)
The visible half of (soundcloud.com/futurendeavours)

Music released on Bricolage, Intellitronic Bubble, Waxing Crescent, Móatún 7, noci miste, Cue Dot, Neo Ouija, Soundtracking The Void, Disintegration State, See Blue Audio, Subplant, Triplicate Records, Tribal Pulse, Light At The End, Unstrung, Gorecki Productions, Neotantra, Soundscape Versions, BFW Recordings and Bath Dub.
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