Fountain
Bedroom Community – HVALREKI17
Lyra Pramuk’s debut Fountain explores a post-human, non-binary understanding of life.
Created entirely from her own voice, although often shaped and structured by electronics, Fountain is an emotional, sensual, and devotional journey. The title is derived from her family name, Pramuk, which translates from Czech as ‘well spring’ or ‘fountain.’ Often wordless, these songs evoke a new wholeness sustained by the ritual force of drowning, immersion, cleansing, and bathing – also referred to in the album artwork by acclaimed visual artist Donna Huanca. Fountain plays with the perception of music, rhythms, speech, body, and the relation between technology and humanity, exploring a post-human, non-binary understanding of life and the fragile ecosystems it depends on. The work documents a healing that is still in process, and a full circle-moment that reunited Lyra with her sound engineer twin brother, Ben, for the final mix, which they completed in tandem.
released March 20, 2020
CREDITS
Music composed and produced by Lyra Pramuk.
Vocals recorded by Lyra Pramuk and Ben Pramuk in Berlin and at EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm.
Mixed by Ben Pramuk in Berlin.
Mastered by Valgeir Sigurðsson and Francesco Fabris at Greenhouse Studios.
Album Artwork by Donna Huanca.
Retouch and Image Composition by Sayuri Chetti.
Graphic Design by Gergő Kovács at Nufolklore Studio in Budapest.
“On her debut album, the American musician works entirely with recordings of her own voice, processing and layering largely non-verbal sounds to explore the very fiber of her being.” — Ruth Saxelby, Pitchfork
“Rather than muddling her meaning, [her voice’s] ambiguity—of feeling, timbre, gender, even species—suggests a state of perpetual transformation. Look, Pramuk seems to declare, at how much we contain.” Pitchfork
“Her 2020 debut album, Fountain, is a rich, deeply moving tapestry of sound.” — Highsnobiety
“Mixing Gregorian chant, gospel, a cappella folk, minimalism and electro, Pramuk’s sonic world hypnotizes and immerses the listener in its contemplative meanders.” — Numéro
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The Quietus
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Bedroom Community – HVALREKI17
Lyra Pramuk’s debut Fountain explores a post-human, non-binary understanding of life.
Created entirely from her own voice, although often shaped and structured by electronics, Fountain is an emotional, sensual, and devotional journey. The title is derived from her family name, Pramuk, which translates from Czech as ‘well spring’ or ‘fountain.’ Often wordless, these songs evoke a new wholeness sustained by the ritual force of drowning, immersion, cleansing, and bathing – also referred to in the album artwork by acclaimed visual artist Donna Huanca. Fountain plays with the perception of music, rhythms, speech, body, and the relation between technology and humanity, exploring a post-human, non-binary understanding of life and the fragile ecosystems it depends on. The work documents a healing that is still in process, and a full circle-moment that reunited Lyra with her sound engineer twin brother, Ben, for the final mix, which they completed in tandem.
released March 20, 2020
CREDITS
Music composed and produced by Lyra Pramuk.
Vocals recorded by Lyra Pramuk and Ben Pramuk in Berlin and at EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm.
Mixed by Ben Pramuk in Berlin.
Mastered by Valgeir Sigurðsson and Francesco Fabris at Greenhouse Studios.
Album Artwork by Donna Huanca.
Retouch and Image Composition by Sayuri Chetti.
Graphic Design by Gergő Kovács at Nufolklore Studio in Budapest.
“On her debut album, the American musician works entirely with recordings of her own voice, processing and layering largely non-verbal sounds to explore the very fiber of her being.” — Ruth Saxelby, Pitchfork
“Rather than muddling her meaning, [her voice’s] ambiguity—of feeling, timbre, gender, even species—suggests a state of perpetual transformation. Look, Pramuk seems to declare, at how much we contain.” Pitchfork
“Her 2020 debut album, Fountain, is a rich, deeply moving tapestry of sound.” — Highsnobiety
“Mixing Gregorian chant, gospel, a cappella folk, minimalism and electro, Pramuk’s sonic world hypnotizes and immerses the listener in its contemplative meanders.” — Numéro
Resident Advisor
The Quietus
Beast Per Minute
Soul Feeder
Listen/Buy Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Soundcloud.
