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a significant ambient hymn to the heart of a city. – Backseat Mafia
The Breakdown Room 40/Someone Good – 9.0 Hot town, summer in the city“, The Lovin’ Spoonful’s immortal sixties pop hit may not be a song that will immediately ping into mind when listening to ‘Tropical Church’, the new album by musician, sound artist and composer Olivier Cong. Yet Cong’s graphic soundtrack for his own city, Hong Kong, puts the listener as closely in touch with the complex vitality of that particular metropolis as John Sebastian’s gritty snapshot of a heat-waved New York. Released via the Room40 imprint Someone Good, ‘Tropical Church’ reveals a tapestry of exquisite ambient music for a living city, carefully woven strands of experience and memory, personal…
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The Argentinian sound artist’s ambient hymn to a living landscape. – Backseat Mafia
LA based, Argentinian Qoa (aka. Nina Conti) is a digital sound artist and illustrator who focuses on tuning in and responding to the non-human world. That involves the composer’s serious engagement physical and imaginary, with plants and animals, streams and undergrowth, winds and weathers, and from this starting point developing a musical connection with the living planet. Their solo recording ‘Achiyaku’ from 2020 was a devotional to a river’s rhythms and ripples while 2021’s ‘Asteroide’ on Krut Records imagined land and plant forms beyond this planet. Now comes a new Qoa album ‘SAUCO’, out on LA’s reliably nourishing Leaving Records which offers up further evidence of their probing yet playful…
