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

my personal sound collection
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https://soundcloud.com/baraandisa

contact me isabellavaleriebock@gmail.com

live
08/02/2025 Bara & Isa; Struma + Iodine Das Weisse Haus (Vienna, Austria)
06/06/2024 Bara & Isa; Jeopardize Tapes x Enigmatic Serenades Flucc (Vienna, Austria)
15/05/2024 Solo Isa + Verschrin; ritus WP8 Künstlerverein (Düsseldorf, Germany)
09/04/2024 Solo Isa + Verschrin; glistening A4 (Bratislava, Slovakia)
15/03/2024 Solo Isa + Verschrin; TGIF adO/Aptive (Vienna, Austria)
08/12/2023 Bara & Isa; Mini Music Department Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, Germany)
27/10/2023 Bara & Isa; Made Up Realities (Vienna, Austria)
01/10/2023 Bara & Isa; Sad*Crab Radio presents…LIVE Celeste (Vienna, Austria)
03/09/2023 Bara & Isa; Loose Trax Venue MOT (London, UK)
28/07/2023 Bara & Isa; 5Hive Rave (Vienna, Austria)
13/10/2022 Bara & Isa; St. Margaret’s House Chapel (London, UK)
15/09/2022 Bara & Isa; sch:cht as part of Waves Festival, Das Werk (Vienna, Austria)
20/06/2022 The Others; Hilly Fields Stone Circle III (London, UK)
11/06/2022 Bara & Isa; Friends Serene Shacklewell Arms (London, UK)
31/03/2022 Bara & Isa; hey angel Venue MOT Unit 18 (London, UK)
17/03/2022 Bara & Isa; Vaermina EP launch Avalon Cafe (London, UK)
18/02/2022 The Others; Guildhall Basement (London, UK)
29/01/2022 The Others; Windmill Brixton (London, UK)
03/12/2021 Bara & Isa; FC Malina EP launch; Windmill Brixton (London, UK)
05/11/2021 The Others; Hilly Fields Stone Circle II (London, UK)
20/06/2021 The Others; Hilly Fields Stone Circle I (London, UK)
23/11/2019 Cafe OTO Experimental Choir; Áine O’Dwyer Cafe OTO (London, UK)
06/04/2019 Cafe OTO Experimental Choir; Annea Lockwood Cafe OTO (London, UK)
17/03/2019 Cafe OTO Experimental Choir; Sarah Davachi Cafe OTO (London, UK)

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————UPCOMING RELEASES—————————

May 31st, 2025: Natasha Moreno - UNAWARE [samatape016]
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Q1 2026 
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——————LABEL MANIFEST——————————

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

collating some untethered demos here

more directional work on https://soundcloud.com/baraandisa

email: baran0h4@gmail.com