Coming soon - qd19 Loula Yorke - speak, thou vast and venerable head
Shout-outs too x
Hi friends - hope all good :)
Extremely happy to say that coming next week with the latest interpretation of quiet details is the wonderful synthesist, sound artist and live performer, Loula Yorke.
Hugely admired for her deeply human connection to her modular synthesiser and ability to draw out beautifully musical streams of consciousness - here we see Loula fuse these electronic sequences with field and environmental recordings to create a series of mesmerisingly organic auditory universes.
speak, thou vast and venerable head traverses atmospheres that range from delicate and fragile, to incandescent and euphoric - and at all times texturally hypnotic.
Here we see exactly why Loula’s an award-winning composer - an expert improviser, you can feel her soul coming through every voltaic wave and entrancing atmosphere. This is kaleidoscopic and hallucinogenic music of the highest order.
It’s an honour to have Loula part of the series and so looking forward to sharing this stunning album with you - qd19 is out next Wednesday 19th June - first thing as always x
Bandcamp Listening Party Thursday 20th 19:00 UK time - hope you can all join us!
Artwork done in collaboration with Loula and the album mastered here at quiet details studios.
For now, check out her last stunning studio album, Volta, here:
Also, here’s the latest edition of her monthly mixtape - highly recommend following and picking this up each month, always fascinating and accompanied with a detailed audio description - another example of what a thoughtful artist Loula really is.
https://loulayorke.com/portfolio/june-mixtape/
Also check out her website for more, including upcoming live shows - she’s one of the best so don’t miss if you can get to a gig.
Now some shout-outs to friends previewing tracks from the album:
Katy Jay - Mixed Feelings Skylab Radio 10th June
DJ BLeeK - Urban Mutant 5 O'clock Shadows
Alex Ruder - Pacific Notions KEXP 9th June
Francis Beaubois - Electronic Therapy 7th June (qd19) and 31st May (qd17)
Also thanks to Cynthia Bernard (marine eyes) for playing a track from qd11 Cat Tyson Hughes at her Women of Ambient Music Selected Works live performance for Envelop Sound in San Francisco yesterday - sounded like an awesome event (32 speaker immersive listening space!) and very happy birthday to her too - an incredible musician and supporter of the scene, especially all the amazing women doing beautiful things.
Big thanks to these lovely people, support the DJs!
Exciting times friends - see you next week :)
Much love
Alex
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thanks for the kind words, al! so happy i could share this beautiful song from cat on the mix!