The 6 Mix with Nemone 🔊 (BBC 6 Music) - 3

Zero Point

A Shiver Sequence

Music for kō

Outline of a Distant Memory

Fort Romeau 'Insides' out March 31, 2015. 

Purchase at The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/music-vinyl/products/fort-romeau-insides

Fort Romeau - Lately

Muckle Doos

Gravitation

Not Included

I Against I

Encores 2

Talisman

SEQUENZA live at Paris Orly Airport : Out January 28, 2020  - Balani :  http://bit.ly/2RznT3w 

Pre-order : https://LumiereNoire.lnk.to/Balani 
Artwork by Hello Dune Lunel - www.dunelunel.com/

Follow Vassilena Serafimova on socials:  
WEBSITE - http://vassilenaserafimova.com/home
FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/VassiMusic/ 
INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/vassilenaserafimova/ 

Follow Chloé on socials:
WEBSITE - www.listentochloe.com/
FACEBOOK - www.facebook.com/listentochloe
TWITTER - twitter.com/ChloeDjProducer
INSTAGRAM - www.instagram.com/listentochloe/

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FACEBOOK - www.facebook.com/lumierenoirerecords/
BANDCAMP - lumierenoirerecords.bandcamp.com/
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INSTAGRAM - www.instagram.com/lumierenoirerecords/

SEQUENZA: Get to Know: http://bit.ly/2DqTFt2 - With FIP: https://bit.ly/2rN8C1R 

Electronic music producer Chloé and instrumentalist Vassilena are releasing Balani, an astonishingly original single, which heralds their first co-written album, on the cards for 2020.

Balani reveals the perfect synthesis of the two artists’ specific musical artistry: the intoxicating sounds of Vassilena's marimba arranged and shaped by Chloé's electronic production. The electronic beats and sequences which start out understated, wind around several percussion loops with added effects, all gradually escalating to culminate in a wild euphoria. 

Balani is up there with the craziest techno rushes before taking on a slow baleful rhythm to finish. It comes to a close as if exhausted but finally satiated by such an abundance of energy.

Flashback: to the end of 2016, at a recording for Culture Box, France Television's replay platform, the collective Sourdoreille invited Chloé and Vassilena to collaborate as a duo on a new live performance. Although the idea was originally for something ephemeral, the collaboration has been going ever since, both on stage and in the studio.

The chemistry between the two artists was palpable from the beginning, fueled by the personal affinity that developed with the “scholarly” Bulgarian musician, who is also artistic director of Bulgaria’s International Marimba and Percussion Festival and the Paris Percussion Group ensemble (with Jean-Baptiste Leclère): the rhythmic and ethereal character of the marimba marries perfectly with Chloé’s synthetic beats and textures.

In parallel with their own trajectories, the two artists developed their original machine/percussion repertoire as a duo with an invitation to Studio Venezia, part of the 2017 French Pavilion’s program at the 2017 Venice Biennale, designed and programmed by contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan. Chloé and Vassilena spent six days improvising and ended up creating original tracks and developing their "sound" in an hour-long live performance.

These foundations plus the enthusiasm for the project on stage prompted the duo to produce two tracks in 2018 for a vinyl released on Record Store Day as part of a Unik Session(produced by l'Adami and Radio France), recorded at the Maison de la Radio, on the principle that the recording would not be edited. This release already included a first live version of a very rhythmic track, Balani.

After more than two years of touring Europe, including appearances at major festivals (Musiq3, Days Off, Verbier Festival, Menton Music Festival), Chloé and Vassilena have been able to reinvent their own repertoire and perfect their style. At the end of November 2019, they were back in front of the cameras with the Sourdoreille collective for a live session at Orly airport, subject of a new Culture Box broadcast. At the same time Balani was released as a single on Lumière Noire Records, a final version which has evolved and matured with each performance.

Full Bio here : http://bit.ly/2EFLPge

Balani (Single)

Order

LN028S - CHLOE & Vassilena Serafimova - Balani (SEQUENZA debut album single)

Hedione EP

Longevity

Yearning for the Infinite

Let There Be

Transcendental Tree Map

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Max Cooper is an electronic composer, multi-disciplinary artist, music label founder and former scientist who has carved out a unique space in music and visual art.

He holds a PhD in computational biology at the same time as being the first contemporary electronic musician to perform at the ancient Acropolis theatre in Athens and one of the first clutch of musicians to produce in Dolby Atmos.

Cooper has enquired for over 15 years through music, collaborations, and his label Mesh, to explore the intersections between the arts and sciences with installations, performances, immersive experiences, online media, music videos and live events.  Anchored throughout is his emotive approach, connecting how ideas and forms feel, in a manner accessible to us all. 
 
As an artist synonymous with the evolution of club culture, Cooper honed his craft as a DJ with a 10 year residency at legendary Midlands techno event Firefly where he formed a foundational relationship with Architecture Social Club, with whom he still collaborates on extravagant immersive installations.

"I want to encourage the acceptance of electronic music as an art form like any other. Bringing electronic music and abstract audio-visual projects into concert halls, museums and galleries is liberating - the art world opens up doors to communicate in ways that aren’t possible elsewhere."
  
Pivoting from computational biology to electronic music might not seem like the most natural career transition, but for Cooper the commonalities are obvious:
 
"In both fields, you're in a sense, free. Free from the limits of living systems, free from the limits of corporeal sound. The only constraints are in your mind."

www.maxcooper.net 

Contacts:
Management: James Palmer-Bullock, The Wild Seeds - james@thewildseeds.com 
Label: Anthony Faulkner, Mesh – anthony@thewildseeds.com 
PR: Neil Bainbridge, Neighbourhood PR - neil@nbhd-group.com 
Radio: Matthew Maxey, Enganche - matthew@enganche.co.uk

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