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Rombo 02:34
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Vidre 07:07
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T 02:26
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Keinu 02:59
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Ryminä 02:41
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Ö 03:32
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K 01:10
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Silta 01:10
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Golondrina 03:31
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U 03:01
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Kuvakudos 03:24
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Pont 01:20
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Muinoin 07:36

about

Recorded both in Spain and Finland, the 13-track album Myriadi documents Tatu Rönkkö and Raúl Pastor Medall's first standalone collaboration, entirely created, performed and mixed by the pair. With Myriadi, the two artists walk listeners into a world that somehow manages to feel ancient and modern at the same time. It is peaceful and dreamy but also raw, solemn and unsettling. Tatu's improvisational, crude and almost ritualistic sonic approach blends in seamlessly with Raúl's more melodic and melancholic schemes of composition. With its simplicity and clarity, the album belongs in the realms of dark ambient and drone as much as it belongs to a tradition of minimal acoustic music.

Myriadi embraces loose ends, harmonic freedom and even atonality; regardless of whether it involves the sound of glass-blowing water bottles, a small Finnish harp, bell-like sounding metal plates or piano strings played with paint brushes and sticks, the overall improv-based character of the project gives the music a primal, unpredictable and meditative feel. This spontaneous study of form and timbre has room for bold rhythmic pieces played with a drum set consisting of six floor toms, but also for hypnotic chants of granular flute-like sounds and spoken word poetry (featuring voices by Raúl and Tatu's moms). The spontaneity and lack of premeditation that permeate through Myriadi paradoxically reinforce the cohesiveness of the record, reminding us that sometimes creativity really benefits from avoiding too much analysis and overthinking.

Rauelsson (Raúl Pastor Medall's musical moniker) and Tatu Rönkkö met in 2015 through common friends. They both have released music on the Berlin-based label Sonic Pieces and have collaborated on stage and in the studio on a number of occasions. Tatu appeared as a guest musician on Rauelsson's Mirall (2018) and contributed significantly on some film and TV projects that Raúl has worked on for the last couple of years. For the recording sessions of the dystopian TV Series Anna (2021) Tatu travelled to Spain where they explored countless rhythmic ideas with relatively untraditional instrumentation. These free and relaxed creative meetings led to other recording sessions completely unconnected to any scoring project, planting the seed for what Myriadi would become.

credits

released November 18, 2022

Glass and plastic bottles, celesta, clarinet, drums, kantele, metal plates, piano and words by Raúl Pastor Medall and Tatu Rönkkö
Recorded in Benicàssim, Spain and Helsinki, Finland 2020-2021
Additional recordings at Rockaway Studios, Castelló, Spain, engineered by Raúl Artana
Text read by Riitta Rönkkö and Pilar Medall Ibañez
Mastered by Martyn Heyne at Lichte Studio, Berlin, Germany
Cover art by Tatu Rönkkö
Photo by Saku Soukka

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