JOHNSON,WHITNEY / KOHL,LIA
FOR TRANSLUCENCE - LP

UPC: 781484095118
Label: DRAG CITY
Format: LP
Release Date: March 28, 2025
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The debut album from Whitney Johnson & Lia Kohl has evolved over several years from their initial practice of free improvisation on viola and cello into (for the moment), this: a neophonic orchestral expression. At once stimulating and soothing, For Translucence is a living, breathing meditation in which layers of acoustic strings, synthesizers, field recordings, radio and sine waves illuminate each other as they twine and grow.

Whitney’s viola and Lia’s cello meet in a harmonically felicitous zone, one octave apart from each other. Droning in open tones, they then improvise within the vibrations of their chosen binaural beats and let it grow. This edit’s a heady moment in the composition where sounds appear to be going backward and forward at once (blowing from east to west as well). Their goal is “for translucence”; for each successive part to add clarity to its others.

TRACK LIST:

65|66 8:44
48|50 11:29
73|74 10:52
54|56 10:42