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The new album from Brazilian musician MYMK (Bruno Sres), Crack A Light will be released 4th February 2022 through Sounds et al.

Crack A Light is a record of restrained electronic compositions. Recorded in an intimate studio setting through a process of self-erected barriers, and challenges presented by the COVID pandemic. An attempt to focus creative attention, and explore new paths.

“Throughout my work, I’ve been trying to create more hurdles for myself, attempting to curb certain indulgent expressions that can come through uninvited.” – MYMK

During the global lockdown, Sres was able to work long hours in the studio, using rehearsal days to dive into ideas organically, eschewing his normal notation practice and relying on memory and impulse to lead the compositions in new directions. “No matter what barriers you put between yourself, the process, and the final output, the work will still completely expose you in the end. My music refers to the most vivid aspects of life, and it is this concept that I’m exploring within Crack A Light.” – MYMK

In contrast to the individualized recording process, the project as a whole is one of collaboration. The album is preceded by a single (A Gesture / Like All Mornings) that includes a video from visual artist Indira Dominici, and the album features the artwork of Italian photographer Jasmine Deporta.

“As soon as I saw Jasmine’s work, I immediately knew that it was perfect for this project. It alludes to different emotions working together, and also clashing with each other. Ideas that I was trying to explore through the music. There’s a narrative quality to her photography, as though she’s looking for a specific atmosphere, an environment that can create something akin to a dream, or a memory.” – MYMK


The album was produced by MYMK (Bruno Sres) in Brasilia, Brazil, and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll. The album artwork is by Jasmine Deporta.


https://www.soundsetal.com/project/crack-a-light/

Crack A Light

MYMK – Crack A Light [album sampler]

Release info:
On his first release through 6 Plusten Records, @MYMK produced a beautiful new introspective single as a response to this obscure period of time. »Runaway Harps« follows up on his LP The Amputees, released earlier this year through Portland´s avant-garde label @BeaconSound. This brand-new piece is folded into itself, sort of oriented to a conceptual threshold. Edited diligently during September to present a proper version where textures became filled with their own ghosts, the end result speaks to a liminal space between moments of cathartic anxiety and a calm and introverted state of mind.

Produced by @MYMK
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio (NY)
Artwork by Bruno Sres
Label: @6-Plusten-Records
Release date: Nov 1st 2021

Artist Bio:
Native of Brasilia, Bruno Sres is a sound artist recording under the moniker MYMK, in wich he dives into a repertoire of minimalism and doses of melancholia. Sres has released seven albums since 2015 through labels such as Low Kick High Punch (Berlin/Brazil), SØVN (France), Sounds et al and Beacon Sound (US). On MYMK, Sres works with collages, textures and sonic layers treated in a sensorial spectrum, being a compilation of synthesized sounds in process of desintegration or on the deconstruction of rhythms (or the complete lack of it). As a composer, Sres has grown accustomed to hearing sound as music: since his earliest memories, the things that have resonated with him have been the ones that have overwhelmed him in a sensory way. From Jeopardy (2015) to The Amputees (2021), the brazilian solo artist ‘uses sonic fragments like pieces of clay’ (Richard Allen, A Closer Listen), maintaining a close attention to textural detail.

In February 2022, NYC imprint Sounds el al is set to release MYMK´s next LP ‘Crack a Light’. The project will present the graphic work of the italian photographer Jasmine Deporta and an exclusive film by french diretor Indira Dominici for the upcoming single ‘Like All Mornings’.

Runaway Harps

MYMK - Runaway Harps

Auroras

Harem - Ino

Out 12/10/2015 (TWELFTH OF OCTOBER).

https://lowkicklabel.bandcamp.com/album/jeopardy

DOWNLOAD ALBUM

MYMK - Wanderlust (But I Can Sail Through It)

MYMK - Non Accolade

An hour of unreleased music from Vanessa Amara

05/02/2016 
06/02/2016 (feldman)
04/03/2017
viseu 14/07/2017 (live)
21/02/2016 / coomkeen 5
coomkeen 3
untitled 7
07/04/2016
coomkeen 2
coomkeen 7
chamber organ 11/10/2017
untitled 2
23/11/2017
coomkeen 9
cembalo 13/10/2017
16/03/2016
bells 03/12/2017
untitled 1

https://www.nts.live/shows/posh-isolation

NTS RADIO MIX

Vanessa Amara - NTS Radio Mix 12/03/2018

The latest album from Brazilian sound artist Mymk (Bruno Sres), Garlands will be released 1st February 2019 through Sounds et al. The album release will be accompanied by 11 videos created specially by renowned digital video artist Yoshi Sodeoka.

Garlands takes the listener through an expanding electronic soundscape, with digital glitch, distorted effects, and intermittent rhythmic elements fusing the album into a cohesive body of work. Each video heightens the experience, submerging the listener in a landscape where structure is often observed, and then lost.

Following the 2017 album release The Memory Fog (released through SØVN), Garlands was recorded and mixed in Berlin during July 2017, and mastered by Carl Saff. The artwork is based on visuals created by video artist Yoshi Sodeoka.

“The compositions on Garlands present a fuzzy haze that is somewhat familiar: a lot of my previous works have been exercises in bombast and sound pressure. But nonetheless, now I was working on revisualizing things and manipulating an array of braying rhythms and vivid timbres. All this figure drives Garlands into all different spaces and colors.”
— Bruno Sres, Mymk

soundsetal.com

Garlands

iTunes

Mymk - Garlands [album sampler]

GSD - ENTRANCE TO A NEW HOUSE

'Crack a Light' (LP/Cassette):
- Sounds et al: https://bit.ly/3SCMvWI

'The Amputees' (LP/Cassette):
- Beacon Sound: https://bit.ly/3tgTMiu

'Forays Into Clamor' (LP/Cassette):
- Beacon Sound: https://bit.ly/31BqWOa

Other releases also available at:
- Juno Records: https://bit.ly/3aE1k57
- Boomkat: https://bit.ly/2TY1huX
- Norman Records: https://bit.ly/30TT2Sr
- Atom Heart: https://bit.ly/2NeYZ43
- Bleep: https://bit.ly/3aMGCAk
- Discogs: https://bit.ly/2TWmF44
- Reverb LP: https://bit.ly/2RshDKE