Zoom
by upsammy
leoclark
leoclark
My favourite artist for the past 3 years I think...
I usually move on in about 1 year or so...
Thanks, upsammy! Favorite track: Overflowering.
I usually move on in about 1 year or so...
Thanks, upsammy! Favorite track: Overflowering.
Harrison Phinney
Harrison Phinney
what better time than bc friday to finally buy this bonus track. one of my all-time fav albums. dancing polygons and technicolor enthusiasm of a child-prodigy in communion with a Huxleyan super-computer, a brimmingover of unbridled imagination.
Favorite track: Swallows Herself (Bonus Track).
thibaultgoudket
thibaultgoudket
Refined fresh sounds.
Favorite track: Extra Warm.
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It Drips
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Melt In My Heated Hands
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It Drips
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Subsoil
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In A Shade
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Echo Boomed
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Send-Zen
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Overflowering
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Twisted Like A Flame
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about
The natural world has long been forced to reckon with an expanding human influence across its surface. Is mechanisation incompatible with the splendor of nature? Lean in close to the music of upsammy and find out how beauty and the blur can exist in harmony.
Zoom is Thessa Torsing’s first full-length album as upsammy. Since 2017, she has developed a signature style in front of listeners eyes and ears: hers is a mesh of airy tones, tender melodies and highly technical drum patterns which wrap around the body of the song like colourful thread around a metallic spindle. Zoom, a refinement of her sound and an expansion of its ambition, is evidently electronic yet seems to float some way off beyond the glow of a screen. “I don’t like it when something sounds stiff,” upsammy says. “If electronica is super sharp, quantized, hi-fi-ized, this is kind of logical; it is a computer after all. But then, for me, all the emotion is removed. I like little imperfections.”
The title is an invocation for people to look a little closer at their surroundings and replenish their stock of wonder: “People can be consumed by really big or ‘fantastical’ things in life, but don’t see the small things that have great emotional, artistic or even spiritual value...I’ve always had a lot of curiosity for my surroundings, trying to grasp, understand and be amazed by what is around me.” Zooming in is central to the album’s dominant theme, but also essential to its internal programming.
Across the 11 tracks on Zoom are moments that sharpen your focus then throw you off guard. On “It Drips,” a chunky beat conjures the image of a stomping machine. Not so – within seconds a gentle frosting of notes begins to emerge atop the song before a lead melody yawns into view. This technique recurs on “In A Shade”, where buzzy static around the margins of the track and a robust low-end are merely the sediment for the song to grow into another form altogether. Using only an Analog Rytm drum machine, Ableton, some modular kit and field recordings to achieve such a wide palette of sounds, the album reflects the excitement of its maker throughout the production process.
“I always try to make my music vibrant and dynamic with elements moving in and out, like a living organism,” upsammy explains. Pulling the listener’s attention in multiple directions at once could induce a sensation of dislocation, were it not for deliberate care to give space for every intersecting element to breathe: “I pay a lot of attention to the higher frequencies in my music, and especially for this album. I think that’s where most of the clearness and definition is. This is what makes it feel light,” she... more
Zoom is Thessa Torsing’s first full-length album as upsammy. Since 2017, she has developed a signature style in front of listeners eyes and ears: hers is a mesh of airy tones, tender melodies and highly technical drum patterns which wrap around the body of the song like colourful thread around a metallic spindle. Zoom, a refinement of her sound and an expansion of its ambition, is evidently electronic yet seems to float some way off beyond the glow of a screen. “I don’t like it when something sounds stiff,” upsammy says. “If electronica is super sharp, quantized, hi-fi-ized, this is kind of logical; it is a computer after all. But then, for me, all the emotion is removed. I like little imperfections.”
The title is an invocation for people to look a little closer at their surroundings and replenish their stock of wonder: “People can be consumed by really big or ‘fantastical’ things in life, but don’t see the small things that have great emotional, artistic or even spiritual value...I’ve always had a lot of curiosity for my surroundings, trying to grasp, understand and be amazed by what is around me.” Zooming in is central to the album’s dominant theme, but also essential to its internal programming.
Across the 11 tracks on Zoom are moments that sharpen your focus then throw you off guard. On “It Drips,” a chunky beat conjures the image of a stomping machine. Not so – within seconds a gentle frosting of notes begins to emerge atop the song before a lead melody yawns into view. This technique recurs on “In A Shade”, where buzzy static around the margins of the track and a robust low-end are merely the sediment for the song to grow into another form altogether. Using only an Analog Rytm drum machine, Ableton, some modular kit and field recordings to achieve such a wide palette of sounds, the album reflects the excitement of its maker throughout the production process.
“I always try to make my music vibrant and dynamic with elements moving in and out, like a living organism,” upsammy explains. Pulling the listener’s attention in multiple directions at once could induce a sensation of dislocation, were it not for deliberate care to give space for every intersecting element to breathe: “I pay a lot of attention to the higher frequencies in my music, and especially for this album. I think that’s where most of the clearness and definition is. This is what makes it feel light,” she... more
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released June 15, 2020
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As electricity blossoms and leafs glisten, upsammy creates interpretative space, cleverly paradoxical in its concurrent comfort and desolation.
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