GmbH: An Anthology of Music for Fashion Shows 2016-2023 Vol. 1

Witness (Guest on Earth Rework)

Live set for harmonica and electronics

Das Ende, Berlin - 10.05.2024

Live @Das Ende - 10.05.2024

'Attraverso un ricominciare - o qualcosa di sentito in precedenza'

by San Giorgio Cibernetico
live electronics nnniain
voice Matto Zoppi

artwork by Teresa Licciardi

recorded in Florence (IT) in 2023 for Biodiversità Records

released by Ruego, June 2025

I - (Vita Passata)

II - (Corrispondenza)

III - (Vita Presente)

Vega

Mesmerising dance floor tapestries from a singular experimental musician.

Can you reinvent the human voice? The oldest musical instrument in existence, our voices are the foundation of music as we know it, and few push its limits in electronic music today like Lyra Pramuk. On her masterful debut, Fountain the Berlin-based, US-born artist's voice was the only instrument. No drums, no synths—just her voice warped, synthesized and layered to achieve orchestral-like electronics.

Five years on from her breakout, Pramuk's practice has steadily evolved, with a continued interest in ideas of folk and futurism, and how technology can enable us to build community beyond boundaries of time and space. There’s a holistic nature to her artistry, one that extends seamlessly into her DJing.

As she explains in the Q&A accompanying this week's RA Podcast, she sees her work as "part of a continuum of sacred, folkloric, and communal music represented by many different subcultures and communities across the world."

It's an approach that, like much of Pramuk's output, feels explicitly choral in nature. The first voice we hear on the mix comes from Lonnie Holley, his woozy Southern drawl calling out, "Earth will be there to catch us when we fall." (Although, you have to wonder, if we keep flogging the Earth, will it?) 

More voices follow across an eye-catching tracklist, from the poetry of friends (Nadia Marcus) to esoteric French chantresses from the ’80s (Anne Gillis), while Pramuk wraps an extensive amount of her own forthcoming material around tracks from SD Laika, Leyland Kirby, rRoxymore and 33EMYBW, to name just a few.

By the end, voice and noise become indistinguishable—stammering, glitchy vocals colliding with an orchestra of instruments. The effect is mesmerising.

Unfolding as one continuous composition, RA.979 exists somewhere between an ambient set at Kwia and the main stage at Unsound, voices and textures blurred into a fluid tapestry of sound. It's a singular offering to the series from a singular artist.

@lyra_songs

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/980

RA.979 Lyra Pramuk

Hymnal

Rewild

Ending

One-off - Q*****n

“This mixtape for NXS is made entirely of a cappella voices, weaving together recordings from Archive of Voices and tracks by various artists where the only instrument is the human larynx — and that of other creatures. The mix was composed after I experienced a corneal abrasion in both eyes. I recommend listening to it in the dark, just as it was conceived, gently lying down, with closed eyes.” @nina_riv, June 2025

TRACKLIST:

1. Archive of Voices - Untitled
2. Archive of Voices - Untitled
3. Cristina Campo - RSI archives, audio excerpt 
4. perila - she wonder
5. Younes Zarhoni - A Bird In A Hand
6. Archive of Voices - Untitled
7. Meredith Monk - Environs 1
8. AGF - Liniendicke
9. Caroline Shaw, Roomful of Teeth, Brad Wells - Partita for 8 Voices: No.3, Courante
10. Archive of Voices - Untitled
11. Mobandi: Mo Boma, Berceuse - Pygmées Aka
12. Michèle Bokanowski - Scherzo
13. György Ligeti - Lux aeterna
14. Muslimgauze - An End

Photo: Claudia de Nicolò

Live @Das Ende - 10.05.2024

Matto Zoppi

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