Szabadság by Adela Mede - Adela Mede [AM02]

Szabadság

Adela Mede

A 9 track electronic album (24m 52s) — released February 25th 2022 on Adela Mede

#electronic #dance

Szabadság is a navigation. This debut by Adela Mede, recorded in her family home on the Slovakian border with Hungary, searches through the personal, familial, cultural, folkloric and geographic of her past and present.

Examining both the vulnerability and determination of her voice - as it leaves the lips, raw, and in the ways it can be transformed with digital processing - the embodied memories of language, of utterance, are explored.

Airy, open sound worlds and tentative strings of improvised naked vocal transform themselves into insistent repetition. Fizzing, sparkling electronics are set against the beautiful grainy depth of field recordings. The locations, these places, are found and lost - home is found and lost - in a dance of fragmented vocal harmonies. Three languages (English, Hungarian, Slovak) weave a song of spring, nature, forgiveness, togetherness and rebirth.

a thrilling collage of Eastern European folk music, field recordings, and experimental electronica. - Matthew Blackwell Bandcamp Daily

Her music moves from spellbinding choruses to intimate field recordings of folk dances. Natural sounds morph into snaps of volatile synthesis. Choirs of electronically altered voices sit side-by-side with disarmingly bare singing. All of it woven together with fragments of hypnotic beats and flickers of spoken word. - Daryl Worthington The Quietus

Radioplay - Late Junction BBC Radio 3

20 Best Albums from Central / Eastern Europe: "Adela Mede uses different languages to sing, creating a borderland story about her identity, coloured with electronics and beats. She demonstrates that languages that are not widely known and sound strange to many can communicate an intimate story and sound powerful – delicate and resonating at the same time. - Jakub Knera The Quietus

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