Composer, percussionist and multidisciplinary artist RRUCCULLA is undoubtedly one of the most eclectic projects to emerge from Spain in recent times, combining abstraction, plasticity and experimentation with an uncommon mastery.
Since her first impact on the electronic "headz" scene with SHuSH [Sound Sketches, 2018], the Basque producer has been carefully distilling her new album Zeru Freq., which will be released on Barcelona’s Lapsus record label. The album is wide-ranging, interweaving sound and art that transports the listener into an immersive universe.
Zeru Freq. envelops us in a Euskadi environment, guiding us through an open-air museum, containing a collection of eleven sound productions that fuse nature, landscapes and the local climate. This epic musical journey incorporates organic frequencies painted in Technicolor, in which hyper-realistic synthesizer textures merge with acoustic instruments, resulting in an atmospheric ambient sound that warps our perceptions of reality.
At a sonic level the unmistakable stamp of RRUCCULLA is omnipresent, but this time she climbs to even higher plains. Zeru Freq. explores an expanded aural palette, traversing the borders of strictly electronic music, while laying foundations for a new audio discourse. Throughout its eleven tracks, RRUCCULLA embraces the broadest spectrum of contemporary music, flirting with avant-garde electronica at will, without succumbing to labels or pigeonholing.
Zeru Freq. is the sound of shapes; figures and strokes, it is a work that mutates with each passing moment, until the last note is heard.
credits
released September 7, 2023
All tracks composed, performed, produced and mixed by RRUCCULLA.
Mastered by Pedro Pina.
Artwork by RRUCCULLA.
Flute writing and recording on 'Draw us before we fade' by Violeta Azevedo.
Vocals on 'Igandea' by Aines Txabarria.
Additional percussion instrument 'Gong 1' designed by sculptor Ariel Elizondo.
Drums on tracks 3, 4, 8 and 9 recorded at El Tigre Studio.
Drums sound engineers: Jon Aguirrezabalaga and Xabier Eguia.
'Zeru Freq.' was conceived in Barakaldo, Basque Country.
LPS37.
www.lapsus.cat
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