Name: Cold + Liquid
Brand: Motte

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BING173

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Black

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-08-12

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Forte

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

600197017319

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Motte

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

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Ba Da Bing!

Ba Da Bing! is a record label and artist management company based in Brooklyn, NY. With a passion for independent music, Ba Da Bing! has been curating and promoting exceptional talent since [year]. From indie rock to folk to experimental sounds, our diverse roster of artists represents the best of the underground music scene.

As a label, we strive to provide a platform for artists who push boundaries and defy genres. We believe in the power of music to inspire and connect people, and we are dedicated to supporting musicians who create meaningful and thought-provoking work.

With an extensive catalog of releases spanning over [number] years, Ba Da Bing! has become synonymous with quality and innovation. Our team works closely with our artists to ensure their vision is realized while also providing them with the resources they need to succeed in today's ever-changing music industry.

Anita Clark’s new Motte album, Cold + Liquid, builds glacial atmospheres, frozen moods and isolated impressions. Portraying New Zealand through socio-geological sound, breathing in Christchurch cultures and locales, the album embodies an artistic simulation of the Kiwi environment. With this release, Clark aimed to make something colossal, and set about finding the right textures to add. A friend who works at Oamaru Freezing Works gave her field recordings of the temperature control room, a vast cold space of isolated machinery, where ice grows and dissolves in ever-evolving sculptures. Getting her hands on shortwave/longwave radios, she incorporated frequency sweeps. Another friend provided her with the mechanical drones underneath the deck of a cement cargo ship, as it lay docked in Lyttelton Harbor. Still more sources came from Sign of the Bellbird, an historic environmental site in South Christchurch, where Clark and Thomas Lambert recorded bellbirds, rolling boulders, snapping sticks, thrown dirt and the papery sound of the native harakeke plant. While violin dominates the first Motte album Strange Dreams (2017), Clark sought to expand instrumentation. She was gifted a handmade Pūrerehua puoro, a traditional Māori instrument that sounds similar to the whirling and hovering of a moth (which is “motte” in German). A reacquaintance to the guitar occurred after developing an alter-ego project entitled Sex Den, with sleazy noir-esque guitar riffs in response to a failed rumour from a local drug-addled dive bar. Guitar and synth allowed for a broader songwriting palette along with a sometimes Dadaist approach to lyric writing. These new tools accent the extreme ambiences of Cold + Liquid, while additional work was provided by Ben Woods on synth and bowed guitar. Listening to Cold + Liquid is a fulsome experience of articulated sound and specific place. Anita Clark dances around the shining candescence of her culture like a night insect, always seeking a better vantage point to the light.

Cold + Liquid

Music GB