sama recordings pres. s c h w e b e n #17
April 16th, 2025 

Westbahnstudios 
Preysinggasse 5 
1150 Vienna 

w/ 
VOICE ACTOR live a/v (Stroom, UK) 
AMBIENT ANIMAL
SOLO ISA

kindly supported by Stadt Wien Kultur / MA7

Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/lduRg4kbcv4

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VOICE ACTOR (UK) 

VOICE ACTOR’s music buzzes like a brain. It vibrates, oscillates and turns strange stimuli into electrical waves. Their 2022 album Sent From My Telephone sometimes felt less like music than neural entertainment: a gargantuan sketchbook, nearly four and a half hours long, blending spoken-word poetry, distorted samples, and noirish drones. That epic transmission confirmed Voice Actor as one of the most mysterious acts on Belgian’s outsider-music label Stroom led by Ziggy Devriendt aka Nosedrip. 

In January 2025 Noa Kurzweil aka VOICE ACTOR released Lust (1) together with obscure Welsh producer Squu – an album which gracefully alternates between sensual ambient with soft gestures of two-step /garage and downbeat/dub. Though more compact than her debut, the new album’s hazy blend of blown-out ambient and indecipherable murmurs taps into a similarly delirious dream state. Even in its vaguest and most abstract moments, Lust (1) possesses sharp expressive powers. It mimics that state of good sex when thresholds explode and all logic flushes out.

Kurzweil renders words beautifully, in a tactile and onomatopoeic way. Her voice abstractions glow even more keenly, as she forfeits meaning to phonemes. 

We are delighted to welcome her to Vienna on April 16th for an exclusive A/V performance at Westbahnstudios. 

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/lust-1
https://www.nts.live/shows/voice-actor
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/sent-from-my-telephone

SOLO ISA 

Solo Isa (1/2 of Bara & Isa) is a Vienna based musician. She co-hosts the (currently on pause) radio show Sad*Crab Radio and is working on "new songs from meraviglia" (a collaboration with Verschrin), solo material as well as new material for Bara & Isa.

https://soloisa.bandcamp.com/album/new-songs-from-meraviglia-bootleg-tape
https://baraandisa.bandcamp.com/album/ii-2
https://soundcloud.com/hkcrlive/sadcrab-radio-w-solo-isa-22122023


AMBIENT ANIMAL 

Different atoms - from gently floating to wildly pulsating - dance for similar desires. Electronic ritualism that creates an exoplanetary dream world between contemplation and escalation. Sama Recordings label founder Benedikt Guschlbauer aka Ambient Animal lives and works in Vienna. 

https://soundcloud.com/ambientanimal
https://samarecordings.bandcamp.com/

sama recordings pres. s c h w e b e n_16.04.2025_Westbahnstudios_Vienna

Solo Isa (dj set)
recorded at sama recordings pres. s c h w e b e n 16.04.2025_Westbahnstudios_Vienna
Cover Artwork: Isabella Bock 
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sama recordings pres. s c h w e b e n #17
April 16th, 2025 

Westbahnstudios 
Preysinggasse 5 
1150 Vienna 

w/ 
VOICE ACTOR live a/v (Stroom, UK) 
AMBIENT ANIMAL
SOLO ISA

kindly supported by Stadt Wien Kultur / MA7

Video Teaser: https://youtu.be/lduRg4kbcv4

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VOICE ACTOR (UK) 

VOICE ACTOR’s music buzzes like a brain. It vibrates, oscillates and turns strange stimuli into electrical waves. Their 2022 album Sent From My Telephone sometimes felt less like music than neural entertainment: a gargantuan sketchbook, nearly four and a half hours long, blending spoken-word poetry, distorted samples, and noirish drones. That epic transmission confirmed Voice Actor as one of the most mysterious acts on Belgian’s outsider-music label Stroom led by Ziggy Devriendt aka Nosedrip. 

In January 2025 Noa Kurzweil aka VOICE ACTOR released Lust (1) together with obscure Welsh producer Squu – an album which gracefully alternates between sensual ambient with soft gestures of two-step /garage and downbeat/dub. Though more compact than her debut, the new album’s hazy blend of blown-out ambient and indecipherable murmurs taps into a similarly delirious dream state. Even in its vaguest and most abstract moments, Lust (1) possesses sharp expressive powers. It mimics that state of good sex when thresholds explode and all logic flushes out.

Kurzweil renders words beautifully, in a tactile and onomatopoeic way. Her voice abstractions glow even more keenly, as she forfeits meaning to phonemes. 

We are delighted to welcome her to Vienna on April 16th for an exclusive A/V performance at Westbahnstudios. 

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/lust-1
https://www.nts.live/shows/voice-actor
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/sent-from-my-telephone

SOLO ISA 

Solo Isa (1/2 of Bara & Isa) is a Vienna based musician. She co-hosts the (currently on pause) radio show Sad*Crab Radio and is working on "new songs from meraviglia" (a collaboration with Verschrin), solo material as well as new material for Bara & Isa.

https://soloisa.bandcamp.com/album/new-songs-from-meraviglia-bootleg-tape
https://baraandisa.bandcamp.com/album/ii-2
https://soundcloud.com/hkcrlive/sadcrab-radio-w-solo-isa-22122023


AMBIENT ANIMAL 

Different atoms - from gently floating to wildly pulsating - dance for similar desires. Electronic ritualism that creates an exoplanetary dream world between contemplation and escalation. Sama Recordings label founder Benedikt Guschlbauer aka Ambient Animal lives and works in Vienna. 

https://soundcloud.com/ambientanimal
https://samarecordings.bandcamp.com/

Solo Isa (dj set)_sama recordings pres. s c h w e b e n_16.04.2025_Westbahnstudios_Vienna

Ambient Animal (dj set) with music by Squu only ;) 
recorded at sama recordings pres. s c h w e b e n 16.04.2025_Westbahnstudios_Vienna
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sama recordings pres. s c h w e b e n #17
April 16th, 2025

Westbahnstudios
Preysinggasse 5
1150 Vienna

w/
VOICE ACTOR live a/v (Stroom, UK)
AMBIENT ANIMAL
SOLO ISA

kindly supported by Stadt Wien Kultur / MA7

Video Teaser: youtu.be/lduRg4kbcv4

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VOICE ACTOR (UK)

VOICE ACTOR’s music buzzes like a brain. It vibrates, oscillates and turns strange stimuli into electrical waves. Their 2022 album Sent From My Telephone sometimes felt less like music than neural entertainment: a gargantuan sketchbook, nearly four and a half hours long, blending spoken-word poetry, distorted samples, and noirish drones. That epic transmission confirmed Voice Actor as one of the most mysterious acts on Belgian’s outsider-music label Stroom led by Ziggy Devriendt aka Nosedrip.

In January 2025 Noa Kurzweil aka VOICE ACTOR released Lust (1) together with obscure Welsh producer Squu – an album which gracefully alternates between sensual ambient with soft gestures of two-step /garage and downbeat/dub. Though more compact than her debut, the new album’s hazy blend of blown-out ambient and indecipherable murmurs taps into a similarly delirious dream state. Even in its vaguest and most abstract moments, Lust (1) possesses sharp expressive powers. It mimics that state of good sex when thresholds explode and all logic flushes out.

Kurzweil renders words beautifully, in a tactile and onomatopoeic way. Her voice abstractions glow even more keenly, as she forfeits meaning to phonemes.

We are delighted to welcome her to Vienna on April 16th for an exclusive A/V performance at Westbahnstudios.

stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/lust-1
www.nts.live/shows/voice-actor
stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/sent-from-my-telephone

SOLO ISA

Solo Isa (1/2 of Bara & Isa) is a Vienna based musician. She co-hosts the (currently on pause) radio show Sad*Crab Radio and is working on "new songs from meraviglia" (a collaboration with Verschrin), solo material as well as new material for Bara & Isa.

soloisa.bandcamp.com/album/new-song…a-bootleg-tape
baraandisa.bandcamp.com/album/ii-2
Hkcrlive – Sadcrab-radio-w-solo-isa-22122023

AMBIENT ANIMAL

Different atoms - from gently floating to wildly pulsating - dance for similar desires. Electronic ritualism that creates an exoplanetary dream world between contemplation and escalation. Sama Recordings label founder Benedikt Guschlbauer aka Ambient Animal lives and works in Vienna.

@ambientanimal
samarecordings.bandcamp.com/

Ambient Animal (dj set)_sama recordings pres. s c h w e b e n_16.04.2025_Westbahnstudios_Vienna

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Sama Recordings - founded 2014 in Vienna by Benedikt Guschlbauer - is an independent record label for advanced audio aspects free of aesthetic or genre-based borders and stands for forward thinking music, which enriches body, soul and mind. We would like to showcase diversive creative approaches by local & international artists active in the vast fields of contemporary electronic music. A certain elevating spirit has to radiate from these waves and frequencies we want to present you.

The arabic term "Samâ" refers to whirling or listening in the language of mysticism. During a samâ ceremony, subtle vibrations are created by playing frame drums (daffs) that grasp the heart and also induce mystical trance. Thus Samâ, the art of listening among the Sufis, refers to the perception of inner vibrations. For me personally the word “sama” functions as a methaphore for conscious listening and dancing. 

grounded and spiralled out of control. the journey continues.

Text: Benedikt Guschlbauer