Leda – Music For A Film

Label: Kashual Plastik – none
Format: Cassette, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 13 Feb 2023
Genre: Rock
Style: Experimental

Tireless Berlin imprint Kashual Plastik land another one on us with new material from Malmö’s Sophie Herner aka Leda.  Music For A Film apparently but one I’m sure one we’re unlikely to be able to see.  Just six loops of droning, semi-automated guitar dirge that’s exactly the kinda stuff we love to loose ourselves in on a sun-kissed Tuesday afternoon.  Herner’s work in Gothenburg supergroups Neutral or Enhet För Fri Musik should be a must check for anyone but her previous solo outings on IDDB, FFFM and that micro edition tape back in 2014 have been firm favourites here at HQ.  It’s that patient, deadpan, tape-hiss encrusted slurry that gets us, somethin akin to early champions of this stuff like Joe Jones, Remko Scha or that great Tony Sinden record on Piano but a million miles away from an art gallery instead in a dank beer cellar on the outskirts of Malmo.  Lovely little doily casing too.  (Mint / New - with DL).

Repetitive actions, looping in your head forever. Forever? Never. Zero is endless. All flowers and fades. No permanence is ours. We are a wave, that flows to fit. And yet, “Music for a film”, a cassette tape by Swedish artists Sofie Herner aka Leda, inheres the power for perpetuity. A circulating dreamland, built on loop pedals, guitar, and tape manipulation. The Malmö based artist, who is already famed in the global experimental, improvisational, lo-fi noise underworld for her own musical creations as well as being part of bands and projects like Enhet För Fri Musik, Källarbarnen, or Neutral, brings music made for the film “Dödfött“ - an interactive flick by director Niklas Hansson about failed online karate and caducity, screened with a stage art performance at Hypnos Theatre, Malmö, in early autumn 2022. Cinematic sounds for all the Velvets, that never awaken from their first DIY Super 8 dream. Colorful, yet monochrome electrified and acoustic guitar melodies, monotonous, working like drones, getting all stranded in the zones. Six minimal compositions. Full of plenty, always friendly. Heavy, calm, dreamy, shredding, scratching, created for the woman of the world. And all other creatures, that seek features in unbroken repetition. As nobody keeps any of what he has, one day the eternal veil of forgetfulness will warp us all. Until that hour we dance in circles. Making karate moves, sidestepping caducity, reenacting ourselves, endless at the edges, through night and day, craving form that binds. As form is emptiness, emptiness is form itself. Welcome to the world of Leda, riff, 7/4, loop, the young, the middle aged, the old…. (mint / new - with DL - limited)

Tracklist
A1 Heavier Loop, Riff (For The Young Woman)
A2 Heavier Loop, Shredding (For The Young Woman)
A3 Calm 7/4, Riff (For The Middle Aged Woman)
B1 Calm Loop, Scratching (For The Middle Aged Woman)
B2 7/4 Loop, Dreamy (For The Old Woman)
B3 7/4 Loop, Bass Riff (For The Old Woman And Credits)