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Released on new label Trouble in Utopia, On Pause is Valiska’s most personal work to date, and consists of eight tracks that recount a series of life-changing events that occurred between 2016 and 2017. Charting this journey of loss and upheaval, the music is melancholic and at times painfully stark but does not dwell in dischord - with passages of optimism, hope, and even fleeting euphoria.

Out Oct 13 on Trouble in Utopia

Pre Order:  https://valiska.bandcamp.com/album/on-pause

As featured on The Line of Best Fit: www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/discovery/valiska-softness

On Pause

Valiska - Softness

Credits:
Amanda Palmer: Vocals & keys
Edward Ka-Spel: Vocals, Keys & Electronics
Patrick Q. Wright: Violin

Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel (feat Patrick Q. Wright) - Intro / The Unlikely Event / Pulp Fiction

At first, Valiska's music sounds bare. A few unembellished notes, uncomplicated phrases, basic lo-fi effects. But go just past the first track of the album, and you begin to understand, that in simplicity, there lies an honest sound. Its humble entry to the scene, where such direct and unpretentious music comes with virtue, is very dear, sweet, and precious.

Throughout the eight pieces of the album, the Poland born and now Calgary (Canada) based composer works with a limited palette of a synth, some haunting voice, and remnants of their sound, recorded on a tape loop, which shows the signs of disintegration, warping, hissing, and crackling in its unyielding wail. Such sonic impermanence seeps through the mood of this entire album, reflecting melancholy, sorrow, and some hope. A captivating, charming, and magnetic work.

This track is taken off Valiska's upcoming album, titled On Pause, out on October 13, on Trouble in Utopia, a new London-based label founded by Francis Redman with an exploration of sound as a focus for the upcoming releases.

TRACK PREMIERE : Valiska - A Pause

Morning Bells

ELECTRO - MIX

ROLLING DOWN

Reasons

Riccardo Margarolo: voice and synthesizers
Mauro Fasolo: drums and samples
Massimiliano Liverani: Guitars

Lies

Originally broadcast on NTS Radio live 14:00-15:00, Tuesday 9th June, 2020.

Tapes -Untitled (Cav Empt, 2018)
The Company Ltd. - The Barefoot (A Terrible Misunderstanding, 2015)
Mr. Partridge - I Sit In The Snow (Virgin, 1980)
Malvern Brume - A Still Sunken Road (Alter, 2020)
Cucina Povera - Haaksirikkoutunut (Night School, 2020)
Silvia Kastel - Ormi (Adult Swim, 2020)
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - A Liquor Of Daisies (excerpt) (Shelter Press, 2020)
The Pheromones - (I’m A) Paper Towel (Alter, 2020)
Kevin Harrison & Steven Parker - In My Eyes (Illusion Production, 1985)
Coby Sey - To (Self released, 2020)
Beverly Glen Copeland - Color Of Anyhow (GRT, 1971)
Loraine James - Lonesome (Self released, 2020)
Judy Nylon and Crucial - Information Rain (On-U Sound, 1982)
Grace Jones - Private Life (Post Remix) (Skam, 1998)
Kaval Yahudah - Soyguncu (ANA, 2019)
Moor Mother - Wolfsbane -Gifted (Self released, 2020)
Michael Ranta - Save Alchi  (excerpt) (Meakusma, 2019)
Karl Lindh - Djurgardsgatans Ogonblick (Low Company, 2019)

Lies

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