The Torso Tapes, by Baal & Mortimer

The Torso Tapes

by Baal & Mortimer

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jgladden unquestionably experimental, beds of field recording and electronic flourishes support layers of vocals that blend and diverge as if clouds slowly drawn by wind creating amorphous shapes to interpret. the magic however is taking that uniqueness and wringing from it such beguiling beauty, in moments like a cloud taking recognizable form it becomes familiar and powerfully moving only to subtly metamorphose, leaving the ear simultaneously delighted and chasing its evolving movement. Favorite track: The Wave.

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1.	All Sons of Adam 03:12	lyrics	buy track
suit the action to your word
2.	Couronnement 02:26	lyrics	buy track
seeking out her way leaving everything that skulls would say onto her temples black dew drips behind the hill winter has come cold metals upon my brows ancient legends dripping from my mouth upon the hill where she lied down gods eyes open
3.	Interlude I 00:25		buy track
4.	Aegis Lift 04:58	lyrics	buy track
one blemished being brought to a sudden halt congealed like a head on a stick revealed like a head on a stick we can see for miles here alive and with fiery breath between two heavens where the skin is the faster than the word it has hit you in all places between time and process don’t hold your breath don’t hold your breath you’ll loose it now will it be grave? they said so in every time and state
5.	The Wave 04:14	lyrics	buy track
one young ruin made of men that mean well in aerially shaped days is this the holy thing to see? then quit the layers to be seen your life becomes louder like foam of an adult sea eating itself back in as I bleach as I bleed it’s your chest on the chest of the sea it’s my chest on the chest of sea
6.	Interlude II 00:49		buy track
7.	Vials 02:16	lyrics	buy track
all those bodies painted and confirmed in the drawing of a child counting what I call past all those loves layers that don’t speak your capsules in the end is what I’m trying to forget I can’t believe how much I’m not you how much growing up I had to do I feel this chain is too long nobody asked you to complete make those inscriptions count erased from what seemed I feel this chain is too long nobody asked you to complete make those prescriptions count erased from what seemed late for me
8.	Geister Auf Reisen 03:49		buy track

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Since 2014 Baal & Mortimer is the project of A. Grübler, dedicating herself to the sonic exploration of themes of resistance, autonomy and body conception. Her pieces combine rich textures of electronics with complex layers of experimental vocal counterpoint - an effect at once hypnotically beautiful and eerily destabilizing. After the release of the commissioned piece "Earthrise" on the Düsseldorf-based all-female label HEAVEN in 2018, her debut album "Deixis", completed in London and mastered by Rupert Clervaux, was released by Bureau B in June 2020. With an M.A. in aesthetics and philosophy, Baal & Mortimer now lives in Berlin, researching the concrete potentialities between tone and image, language and body, research and movement. She has collaborated with Black Merlin and Musiccargo and was the mentee of Laurel Halo for the Berlin Amplify program in 2018. With "The Torso Tapes" (ITALIC, 2021), Baal & Mortimer releases her new EP on 9 April 2021, a mini-LP: eight new tracks, including two short interludes. It folds up epochs, landscapes and languages, turning them into the vertical and a new place each time. Layers of orchestral vocals emerge from brittle fog, icy traces of human activity and its mistakes. German, english, machine, human, male, female: corresponding to the same origin, changed, subdued and always elastic. A non-linear time oscillating between grainy drums and the melancholic pull of soundscapes, eternally pushed by choral echoes, singing against themselves. Baal & Mortimer are masters of seduction. Everything is Now to them. It’s a dark play of eccentric folk - from a closed future, a Canterbury of the 23rd century.

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released April 9, 2021

Written, recorded and produced by Baal & Mortimer. Mixed by Baal & Mortimer and Rupert Clervaux. Mastered by Rupert Clervaux. Additional voice on Couronnement by M Casey. Additional drums on Aegis Lift by George Thompson. Photography by Jelly Luise. Design by Laura Catania.

Italic Recordings. ITA117. P&C 2021 Italic. All Rights Reserved. LC 00728. Gema. Rough Trade Distribution. Made in Germany/EU.

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Baal & Mortimer Berlin, Germany

8 Dec 23
Cashmere Radio

26 Sep 23
St Giles Barbican
London

9 Sep 23
UM Festival

14 July 23
Radialsystem Berlin
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4 June
Westgermany Berlin

9 March Akademie der Künste, Berlin

4 March 23 - Kultur im Bunker Bremen

19 Jan 23 - Arkaoda Berlin

3 Dec 22 - Silent Green Berlin

26 Nov 22 - Acéphale Cologne

1 Oct 22 - Beelitz Heilstätten Berlin

6 Aug 22 - Schinkel Pavillion Berlin ... more

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