A unique efficiency of Pramuk’s launching album Fountain, with insights from the trio on how they changed it through dance and motion.
Lyra Pramuk’s launching Fountain was one of 2020’s standout albums. Using her own voice as raw product to be changed and played as an instrument, Pramuk checkedout concepts of post-humanism, gender and identity through what she called “futurist folk music”. Released simply as the Covid pandemic started, the album endedupbeing a recovery vessel for listeners throughout the world, though Pramuk was notable to totally trip its tracks for over a year.
In September 2021, Pramuk premiered a unique Fountain live program at Berlin’s Volksbühne, established in partnership with 2 members of the Berlin-based interdisciplinary dance business, KDV DANCE ENSEMBLE. On phase, Pramuk was accompanied by starting choreographer and director KianíVERTISEMENT del Valle, as well as choreographer and entertainer Nana, who brought a brand-new measurement to the music of Fountain through dance and motion.
“Every time I carryout this music I findout something brand-new about myself in the procedure,” Pramuk informs Fact. “It’s something that keeps offering back to me in a method that is dealing with recovery and dealing with stressandanxiety, worry, I offer with that every time I carryout this music.”
As KianíVERTISEMENT del Valle discusses, setting Fountain to motion felt like a natural method to develop the album. “There’s something about her singing work not having particular words and going off a visceral impulse or feeling that I believe it is actually typical that dancers will link to it,” del Valle states. “There’s something truly effective, like an instant umbilical cable inbetween the method that she’s utilizing voice and the motion practice of any artist.”
In this initial movie from Fact, Pramuk, del Valle and Nana talk about their own individual relationships with Fountain, the motivations behind their work and the live program, and how the concepts and styles behind Fountain carefully lineup with the motion of the body. “Any type of motion releases endorphins that recover you, and it goes back to the album duetothefactthat [Lyra] picked to go to the body to figure out something [she was working with to heal herself], duetothefactthat the voice is linked to the body,” Nana states.
Delta, an album that includes remodels of Fountain tracks by Colin Self, Caterina Barbieri, Eris Drew and more is readilyavailable now on Bedroom Community. For more details on Lyra Pramuk and KDV Dance Ensemble checkout their sites.
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