Unsung is Samuel Savenberg’s (@gewissheit) first Album under his given name. Consisting of eight tracks, the LP provides a listening experience that is not a straightforward continuation of his previous Album Walls, Corridors, Baffles released on Präsens Editionen in 2019 under his S S S S moniker. Savenberg’s emphasis on fast dynamics, ever building tension and climaxes, the array of harsh kicks and industrial techno motives – it’s all gone. What remains is his detailed and structural approach to composition.

Unsung makes use of a variety of instruments to slowly build up sequences and melodies, interspersed with distortions and deviations. Strangely accessible in its alteration between vastness and intimacy, Unsung may be Savenberg’s most inviting project to date. It finds solace beyond the anger and despair, found on previous S S S S projects, in occasional and loose moments of euphoria and redemption. 

The music on the album is accompanied by a digital booklet with lyrics written by various authors such as Flora Yin Wong, Rainy Miller, and Rolf Laureijs. 

Unsung is available to stream and download.


Credits:

Written, arranged, recorded, and mixed between 2020-2023: Samuel Savenberg
Additional Trumpets & French horn: Hannes Rief, recorded by Max Rieger
Additional Percussion: Dominik Bienz
Mastering: Alexander Von Hoersten
Photography: Anna Zachariades
Layout: Nicola Tirabasso
Art Direction: Harun Gradascevic, Marc Schwegler

With support by Selektive Kulturfoerderung Kanton Luzern,
FUKA-Fonds Stadt Luzern

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Präsens Editionen was founded in 2011 to give home to zweikommasieben Magazin. Ever since a bunch of magazines, books, zines, records, tapes and oddities have been published.

zweikommasieben is a Swiss magazine that has been devoted to the documentation of contemporary music and sounds since the summer of 2011. The magazine features artist interviews, essays and columns as well as photography, illustration and graphics. In addition zweikommasieben curates and organizes a variety of events—for example Ebbing Sounds, a symposium that initially was held in the summer of 2018 in San Francisco, or the biennial London-based festival Oto Nove Swiss.