Concentric Records is a multi-disciplinary record label that features experimental sound artists that “operate in between set approaches and styles.” The label was founded by Luca Calo (Born In 1986) and Simone Merli (Soundwalk Collective) in 2020 as an outlet for “new music that transcends identity and definitions, and is inspired by a sense of collective movement.” The duo has launched the label with a trio of Various Artist compilations featuring up-and-coming, as well as established artists, working on audio experimentation that is not easy to classify.
Colliding Wind is the second release in the series, and it is due out January 15th as a 12″ LP and digital download. This second collection comprises 7-tracks featuring the artists Soundwalk Collective, Etapp Kyle, Tragic Selector (Daisuke Tadokoro and Terre Thaemlitz), Kareem Lotfy, Christina Vantzou, Jana Winderen, and Echium. Each work on the record combines a fascinating conceptual approach with thrilling sound results.
The Bandcamp link below allows you to preview four tracks from Colliding Wind. A short tour of the strategies involved in creating these compositions demonstrates Concentric Records’ interest in a multi-disciplinary approach. For instance, Soundwalk Collective’s piece was initially commissioned for Sasha Waltz’s 3-hour dance performance ‘EΞΟΔΟΣ I Exodos, and it involved recording the sounds of a building and its echoing resonances.
Colliding Wind also finds the Egyptian-based artist Kareem Lotfy using granular synthesis to create seemingly vacated washes of haunting sound, while Jana Winderen achieves similar results using hydrophones to create underwater recordings of insects in the River Orne in Normandy. Perhaps Echium sums up things best when he explains his approach as “locking sections of minute particulars, in time” to arrive at a “symbiotic understanding of how I no longer depend nor want, and why I had to stop, to become.”
