What encountering a see shell on the moon sound like 😵‍💫

Taken from 'Fringe' LP/Download (E064, Ecstatic 03/09/2021)

A gorgeous swell of intimate soundscaping from Felisha Ledesma on this simmering stunner for Ecstatic, despatching two extended, richly absorbing pieces weft from everyday detritius; synths, strings, voicemail, found sounds - hitting a similar spot for us as Ulla’s diaristic 'inside means inside me’ but with a more defined play of sound-as-light that gently and memorably tugs at the earlobes and heartstrings. 

Exploring a music of presence and ultra subtle inference, ‘Fringe’ is the 2nd release by Ledesma, student of Berlin's estimable Universität der Künste, following from a debut for Enmossed x Psychic Liberation earlier this year. Using AMQR - a software synthesiser built by Ledesma together with Ess Mattisson - both pieces here shimmer with elusive timbres that occupy a realm that feels lost between worlds - neither electronic nor acoustic, but more a sort of observational sound that radiates togetherness and warmth. 

Operating at insightful levels of synaesthesia, Ledesma poetically turns ostensibly humdrum sources into clouds of smoke - emails, voicenotes, walking along the water, a poem attached to an email, walking alone in New York during lockdown, going for a swim at sunset in the desert - all turn into a smudge of memory. When ‘Beamsplitters’ opens with a tangible human presence - a voicemail from a friend - it startles with its earthly pull, eventually getting lost in a tangled spool of found sound leaving just a trace of iridescent, intimate reverie. 

On ‘Golden Mirror’ Felisha gently diffracts a lonesome guitar phrase into a humming thizz with a steeply uncanny ability to jog the memory in a similar way to how olfactory stimulus can conjure feelings of nostalgia. It’s a trick familiar from an emergent new realm of lower case composers creating something like submerged, small scale symphonies that work counter to notions of classical excess or anodyne ambient, instead focusing on microcosmic, highly peronalised sort of worldbuilding that’s impenetrable, yet somehow entirely open.

Felisha Ledesma - Golden Mirror [E064]

Album: you helped me write my s------ n---

A quiet document of moments that weren’t supposed to last—you helped me write my s------ n--- is a short, intimate album of three songs and a final spoken word poem. It sits somewhere between memory and unfinished letters, a soft place for the things we don’t say out loud.

The opener, "i hope it kills me," loops a slow, hypnotic guitar phrase—four alternating notes, picked in threes. As it swells halfway through, an acoustic guitar shadows the same pattern while a faint hissing distortion creeps in, like something breaking the surface.

"why can't i just rot" follows with a more urgent tempo. Acoustic guitar leads again, joined by piano and a fragile synth line that pulses beneath everything like a heart too aware of itself.

"what if there's no heaven?" is stripped raw. Played in one take, the acoustic guitar stumbles a little, but that imperfection holds a kind of truth—like someone trying to hold it together while quietly falling apart.

The final track, "but you didn’t know," is a spoken word poem. Unadorned and plainspoken, it lands like the last line of a letter never meant to be read.

This isn’t a polished record, and it doesn’t want to be. It’s something left behind, maybe on purpose. It’s for late nights, for headphones, for the moments when silence feels too loud.

I hope it kills me

ulla - table

I. 2c 
II. Flutter
III. Moments in Love

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GRAFTS

Title track from the new LP, 'Insignia', out in Japan-only on cassette for Ryo Murakami's Depth Of Decay label.

https://depthofdecay.bandcamp.com/album/insignia

Insignia

From album 'TRACED', Pattern 04, Sonic Pieces, 2017

Traced

Post Human

KӢR - Dimiskija

A1 from 'Envelope' released on Ekster 2018
BUY: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/envelope

Slope

Taken from the upcoming album Both Lines Will Be Blue, out July 12th on Smalltown Supersound. Produced by Carmen Villain. Flute performed by Johanna Scheie Orellana. Mastered by Matt Colton.

Observable Future

Track from the upcoming DE NOR 2020 compilation LP/DL, out on January 11, 2021!

Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : The Monster Of Yesa

Taken from ‘Sketch for Winter: Perlita’ - out now on Geographic North.

Two Halves Touching

5 June - Glasgow https://www.thegladcafe.co.uk/events/2025-06-05-ben-vince-plus-laurie-pitt-plus-lauren-sarah-hayes-the-glad-cafe
7 June - Manchester https://ra.co/events/2174074
11 June - Liverpool https://ra.co/events/2149995
12 June - Preston https://wegottickets.com/event/656712/
13 June - Newcastle https://www.fatsoma.com/e/mgi2ox99/ben-vince-w-zinzile-and-alex-yan
14 June - Sheffield https://ra.co/events/2147831

Insignia

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