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Kira

by So Beast

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Gavin Hellyer Thanks again to Zaph Mann and his In Memory Of John Peel Podcast for turning me on to this fascinating Italy based experimental duo. It's a sensational record that actually came out in 2016. Truly superb. Favorite track: Sex, Love and Cooking Oscillator.
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    “Kira” is a quite often propulsive affair, dramatically driven by Katarina’s prepared piano playing and Michele’s electronically treated guitar. With Croatian vocalizations, voice overs and samples, frantic lyrical interplay between the two, and an overall sense of upbeat and somewhat excitable and positive energy…this album is an electric/eclectic way to ring in the end of the year! Urgent…mysterious…subtle…dynamic and expansive in tone…the moods on this album twist and turn your mind, and will definitely keep you on your toes!

    This is the standard digipak version in an edition of 150 copies.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Kira via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 4 days
    edition of 150 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $15 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    “Kira” will be released in two physical versions. This deluxe, limited edition version in an edition of only 51 copies, of which only 40 will be for sale, is an absolutely insane object. We will be using the last of our “chocolate boxes” to house what is possibly our craziest most labor intensive package yet.

    Each 5.25” x 8.5” hinge lidded box is stamped, fabric trimmed, hand lettered, and covered on the outside with high resolution photos, a footprint of the musician’s baby Kira, and an attached little wooden boat made from an ancient piano key. Inside each box is a set of three more modified hi-res prints of the “So Beast” in action… photographs taken in homemade 3D dioramas of the Beast’s art studio… with accompanying vials of vintage pigments and tiny clock parts, a unique wooden and metal So Beast marionette doll (made from strange, cut apart vintage “push me-pull you” figures found at an antique sale), with beaded face, paint brush arms, and hair taken from Katarina’s own recently shorn dreadlocks. Each box also contains an original painting that the So Beast itself is in the process of working on in his “studio” and other ephemera pertinent to So Beast’s overall, over the top artistic lifestyle!

    As usual each of these boxes is different, and may or may not be the one/s pictured in the photographs.

    Artwork and design by Colin Herrick and Maria Chenut.

    There is also a beautiful digipak version of this release in an edition of 150 copies.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Kira via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more
    ships out within 4 days
    edition of 51 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $90 USD

     

1.
Intro Puntuale 02:16
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2.
Dear Mother 07:29
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3.
< 09:41
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4.
The Lines Describing A Kone 06:41
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5.
Deep Cracks 03:51
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6.
Imagine 03:03
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7.
The Room 07:56
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8.
Divjla 03:41
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9.
Nokturno 04:11
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10.
Sleepy You 04:53
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11.
Nevera 06:20
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12.
Sex, Love and Cooking Oscillator 07:15
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13.
untitled 11:34
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about

TSM03 is the first full length release from Bologna, Italy based duo So Beast. So Beast are Katarina Poklepović & Michele Quadri….and the name of the album is “Kira”. Katarina is a classically trained pianist/visual artist from Croatia, and her partner Michele is of Congolese/Italian descent…a thoroughly modern couple making music for 21st century ears!

“Kira” is a quite often propulsive affair, dramatically driven by Katarina’s prepared piano playing and Michele’s electronically treated guitar. With Croatian vocalizations, voice overs and samples, frantic lyrical interplay between the two, and an overall sense of upbeat and somewhat excitable and positive energy…this album is an electric/eclectic way to ring in the end of the year! Urgent…mysterious…subtle…dynamic and expansive in tone…the moods on this album twist and turn your mind, and will definitely keep you on your toes!

“Kira” will be released in two physical versions. The first, limited edition version in an edition of only 51 copies, of which only 40 will be for sale, is an absolutely insane object. We will be using the last of our “chocolate boxes” to house what is possibly our craziest most labor intensive package yet.

Each 5.25” x 8.5” hinge lidded box is stamped, fabric trimmed, hand lettered, and covered on the outside with high resolution photos, a footprint of the musician’s baby Kira, and an attached little wooden boat made from an ancient piano key. Inside each box is a set of three more modified hi-res prints of the “So Beast” in action… photographs taken in homemade 3D dioramas of the Beast’s art studio… with accompanying vials of vintage pigments and tiny clock parts, a unique wooden and metal So Beast marionette doll (made from strange, cut apart vintage “push me-pull you” figures found at an antique sale), with beaded face, paint brush arms, and hair taken from Katarina’s own recently shorn dreadlocks. Each box also contains an original painting that the So Beast itself is in the process of working on in his “studio” and other ephemera pertinent to it’s overall over the top artistic lifestyle!

There is also a beautiful digipak version of this release in an edition of 150 copies.

credits

released December 11, 2016

composed and played by
So Beast 

recorded and mixed by Karmelo Marin (chmite@gmail.com) 
mastered by Višeslav Laboš (labosh33@gmail.com)

So Beast is Katarina Poklepović & Michele Quadri
additional guitar on track 12: Karmelo Marin
mix and bass guitar on track 12: Višeslav Laboš

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Time Released Sound, founded in 2011, is a lovingly hand made, limited edition release music label that is as much an art project as it is a musical outlet. Focusing on modern classical, ambient electronic and electroacoustic sounds, we produce visuals and packaging that are as uniquely beautiful as the music itself.

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