Description
Release
After ‘The 5th Apple‘ and ‘Impedance‘, Alina Kalancea presents ‘Letters Never Sent’, her third album.
It is the second full length for the American label Important Records and has been released on CD at the same time as a new cassette titled ‘Alchemy‘.
Alina Kalancea described recording ‘Letters Never Sent’ as being like collecting images that are born in your mind. Shades of sound, tone, color and feeling shape the experience of listening to this album. A work that is made of malleable sonic material that never looks or sounds the same way twice. Part of the magic of the music is that her work leaves room for the conscious and unconscious emotions of the listener. How you react is partially a result of how you feel at the time.
‘Alchemy’, Alina Kalancea’s subsequent cassette being released simultaneously, is a limited edition appendix to the album ‘Letters Never Sent’.
‘Letters Never Sent’ has been produced by Alex Gámez, recorded, mixed and mastered at Störung Studios. Larry Mullins (percussion) and Mark Cunningham (trumpet) have collaborated on some of the pieces of this album.
Artist
Alina Kalancea is a Romanian sound artist and composer based in Modena, Italy.
Her powerful rhythmic sequences, dark ambience, heart beating frequencies and hypnotic loops are paradoxically encapsulated in carefully crafted sound structures and designs, full of secret passages and hidden doors.
Most revelatory flickering soundscapes and receding atmospheres create ungraspable sonic experiences, which take us over, immersing us in powerful and mind altering soundscapes. Some ultimate paradox of spontaneity and total command is under work here, some randomness under control, some certain uncertainty.
Alina Kalancea has studied sound design and synthesis with Enrico Cosimi (Professor of Electronic Music at University of Rome Tor Vergata) and collaborated with producer Alex Gámez aka Asférico (Head of Störung), and artists Julia Kent, Larry Mullins or Raven Bush.
Nowadays, she combines her work as sound artist, her third album ‘Letters Never Sent‘ that has been just released, with being the founder of Soundfreak, the company that brings the VCS3 synth, officially licensed by EMS, to the 4U format.
Media
These audio excerpts have been prepared for preview purposes only, so their sound quality is lower than the found on the 9 audio tracks contained in any ‘Letters Never Sent’ album format.
