KATHARINA SCHMIDT
Katharina Schmidt is a musician based in Berlin. After years of playing drums and piano in various bands, her solo work is influenced by indie, experimental, and improvised music. She uses electronics, field recordings, and self-built interfaces alongside acoustic instruments.
“One Day” is a raw drone music document, but not in a heavy way. The tracks don´t bellow, they are floating gently and they calm down more and more from track to track. It´s a mesmerizing experience, if you take the time, to listen to the whole album at once. Something that does not happen that often anymore, those days, but it is worth it. The album got mastered by Aidan Baker.
“One Day” comes in a limited edition of 50 copies, housed in o-cards. The tape is available in two colourways with onbody prints. You can choose between white and frosted transparent.
KATHARINA SCHMIDT ABOUT THE ALBUM
“One Day” explores patterns and pathways in chaos and randomness by interrogating the materiality of noise and drones. The music draws inspiration from books like Electric Eden and Monolithic Undertow as much as from the sonic affordances of a small arsenal of hardware effects (notably a Fjord Fuzz EMBLA and a Pladask Elektrisk BAKFRAM) that were used to create and manipulate the sounds on the album. The A side juxtaposes the heaviness of the opening track with a bristling, crackling sound world derived from amplifying sonic artefacts with reverse delays and pitch-shifting. The B side consists of only one track which investigates a circular notion of time in dark sheets of sound, interweaving guitar drones in ever-changing harmonies. Composed and recorded in the summer of 2021, “One Day” is a playing field for electrified creativity and imaginative time-travel.
1. 4.57 09:19
2. 12.53 09:46
3. 21.44 19:28
