Electric Indigo will release her sophomore LP Ferrum on March 13th via Editions Mego. The project of electronic musician, composer, and Female:Pressure founder Susanne Kirchmayr, she is a longstanding veteran of the European electronic music scene having worked as a DJ since 1990 in famed clubs like Tresor (Berlin), E-Werk (Berlin), and Flex (Vienna). In 1998, she formed Female:Pressure as a platform for an international network of female, transgender, and non-binary artists working in the fields of electronic music and the digital arts.
While Electric Indigo has released a number of EPs and split-12″s since the early 90s, Ferrum is only her second full-length. Following up on 2018’s 5 1 1 5 9 3 on Imbalance Computer Music, the artist’s newest effort is an exploration of the “spectral richness of iron and other metals.” Using processed recordings of said material, Kirchmayr’s brilliantly minimal arrangements explore the micro-tonal intricacies of her sound source. On “ferrum 3,” the results are incredibly intimate and sensual as she lets percussive barrages of sound slowly melt into sub-atomic oscillations and the hum of negative space.
