Lithuanian musician and sound artist Marija Rasa, aka emer, is a master of texture and tone. In her recent album 'sea salt', she creates a mesmerizing palette of rustles, clicks and clangs, that spiral in freefall. Layered vocals are fragmented and compressed into the most minute of spaces, transmitted directly to the ear as whispered messages.

Her somewhere mix takes a cinematic, expansive approach to composition, with Janet Cardiff's potent narration exerted as a guiding tether. Marija expertly weaves through layers of abstracted ambient and dismantled techno, concocting an undulating pace that stretches moments infinitely, resulting in deep, resonating echoes. As the parts come together, fortuitous sounds create a spine-tingling euphoria, glistening in their warm and blissful transience.

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Jane Cardiff - missing voice track 03 (excerpt)
nimu - Headache Pill
Kassel Jaeger - Meith
Miguel A Ruiz - Transparent
Jane Cardiff - missing voice track 01 (excerpt)
Best Available Technology - 605AM4262013c
Best Available Technology - Dot Ohm 
Jane Cardiff - missing voice track 01 (excerpt)
Steve Roden - Translations & Articulations
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Skee Mask - Daytime Gamer (version)
TEREKKE - Live at Het Bimhuis - Side A
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x or size - Empast
Bellows - 01 01
Biosphere - Disc
Kareem Lotfy - Fr3sh
perila - 5 am
Pendant - Des Vieux Temples
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Somewhere #9 ~ Marija Rasa

Record label exploring emotive sound work and queering notions of experimental music and print. Sub-label Somewhere Between Tapes. Distro by Boomkat.

Somewhere #9 ~ Marija Rasa

Somewhere Press