“recalls experimental pioneers like Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, delivering an electro-acoustic journey that feels both timeless and fleeting” - ADSR Collective (CA)

“a profound sonic experience” - electronica.org (UK)

“Static explosions, piercing wails, and complex jazz structures merge into a mosaic of nuanced profundity” (No Transmission, US)

‘expertly blend avant-garde experimentation with elements of […] jazz and noise-infused ambient soundscapes’ (Inverted Audio, UK)

“Ephemeral, Basal” is an album where the recognizable and the unknown meet, where the physical and the ethereal engage in dialogue and mutually ascribe meaning. Agata Ciurkot’s piano invites us in with all of its keys, ushering us into a liminal space where the lines of its contours blur as it intersects with the intricate waveforms of Ignacio Cordoba’s industrial oscillators. Ciurkot plays an old, grounded instrument in which classical music and jazz are rooted; Cordoba plays an instrument that was never meant to be used outside a laboratory or a factory, perhaps never even meant to be heard. Together, these instruments form an alchemic duo that focuses on being present, on listening, on pondering what emotions lie beyond human experience, where feelings float in space when they depart from earth in the form of sound waves in the air that travels beyond the stratosphere. Agata Ciurkot and Ignacio Cordoba, together, listen to space, to the stars, constellations, and black holes above their ears.

 In the summer of 2018, Ignacio travelled to Berlin to visit Agata, and they recorded almost the entire album in just a few takes. All improvised during a single session in a large, nameless room in Berlin – just one space, two minds and two hearts slowing down their beats to resonate together, they allowed themselves to be transformed, modified, manipulated, and infused with color. Just a few hours of free intuition and sensitivity  captured by some microphones laid the foundation, the structure, the architecture. Later, in Copenhagen, they processed the recordings, at times making the piano completely unrecognisable, as Agata had once dreamt of. The piano was then fused and blended with Ignacio's industrial oscillator in the six symbiotic dances that make up the six songs of “Ephemeral, Basal”.

Limited Edition 12" Vinyl 33rpm - 140g - Full-Color Artwork + Printed Inner Sleeve available for sale on Bandcamp.

Mastered by Francesco Toninelli with analog equipment, the record carries a warm, resonant depth that speaks to the physicality of the medium. The artwork, both on the sleeve and the custom-printed innersleeve, is created by musician Ignacio Córdoba.

Ignacio Córdoba: Industrial Oscillator
Agata Ciurkot: Processed Piano

Mix: Ignacio Córdoba
Mastering: Francesco Toninelli