Daniel Menche "The Soaring" CD available from SIGE today

Available HERE: SIGE

Over the course of Daniel Menche’s three-decade career, the esteemed experimental composer/musician has explored the textural dimensions and emotional weight in an endless variety of sound sources. On his 2008 release Cerberic Doxology, Menche collaborated with Joe Preston (Thrones) by embedding his colleague’s rich singing voice into his layered composition. “I realized that the human singing voice contains the most dynamic harmonics and stands on top of that list of true music purity,” Menche said of the experience, and he began investigating the option of composing a large-scale piece centered on vocals. The initial vision for The Soaring was to commission four classically trained vocalists to follow his notation and later manipulate the voices into a sprawling ambient record, though Menche came to realize that the piece held more emotional resonance when he collaborated with like-minded artists. He enlisted Preston and Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer, Mara) to provide the vocal source material. “It struck me that a baritone and a falsetto voice of the two would get the job done—to make an hour-long piece of continuous music that melts gravity and gives the sense of soaring,” Menche says. Given that Menche’s last release on Sige Records was titled Melting Gravity, it makes sense that his...  more

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released November 27, 2020 

Faith Coloccia: Voice 
Joe Preston: Voice 
Daniel Menche: Bass Cello 

Recorded on Vashon Island and in Winlock, Washington throughout the Autumn of 2019 
Mixed and mastered in Portland, Oregon 

Mastered in the analog domain at Stereophonic Mastering 

Photography by Daniel Menche 
Design and photo manipulation by Faith Coloccia

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Mamiffer "Mettapatterning for Constellation" available today at SIGE

Here is a promotional photo by my good friend Ethan DeLorenzo

Mamiffer "Mettapatterning for Constellation" is available today from SIGE Records. 
Mamiffer is Faith Coloccia + Aaron Turner
Composition by Faith Coloccia (2016) 
Orchestration and string arrangement by Eyvind Kang
Performed by Spółdzielnia Muzyczna contemporary ensemble (Poland, 2017) 

Mixed by Randall Dunn (2017)

"Voice lll Continuum"

I made a song for The Wayward Music Series: https://www.waywardmusic.org/?p=5766

Faith Coloccia is an artist and musician who works under the names Mamiffer and Mára. Her recordings have been released on SIGE records, Karlrecords, Room 40,Blackest Ever Black and Hydra Head. She is the co-founder of the experimental music label SIGE Records. 

Voice III Continuum

Halfway through the shutdown and the pandemic I started going through all of my cassette field recordings from when my son was first born. The current state of our collective consciousness was layered on top of the sounds recorded before I knew that the events and hungry ghosts of 2020 were even a possibility. I couldn’t unhear the “Before” and “After” of this year. Recordings of the past are now laced with a heavy urgent present.

The work I have been doing with the recordings corresponds to my son learning language, first abstractly and now more concretely, as he learns individual letters removed from their subjects. How does communication develop if sounds are missing, or if time or limitations take a consonant away? What if you cannot be heard, or if someone has forgotten how to listen? Communications through click and vibration. There is a window of time where language can take root in a child, along with ideas that the language carries. How does this information become a story, passed down through families? In making this song, I was reaching for a sound antidote, and a lineage prayer.

Source material: cassette field recording of Needle Creek on Vashon Island while walking with my then 2 year old son, 2018.

Voice and Organ recorded and mixed at home August-October 2020 by Faith Coloccia. Mastered by Kevin Ratterman.