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Ruth Goller // SKYLLUMINA LP [BLACK/COLOR]

Ruth Goller // SKYLLUMINA LP [BLACK/COLOR]

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This is a record released by Italian-born bassist Ruth Goller, who lives in the UK, on ​​the contemporary jazz label International Anthem in Chicago, USA, in March 2024.

Contains 10 contemporary pop songs.

*If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us.

Labels and other worksplease use this form. ///Click here to see more International Anthem releases available at Tobira. 

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Ask us for digital files. Available 12" black 140gram vinyl or 12" 'Sunrise of Mine' marbled red/blood orange 140gram color vinyl (edition of 333). 

tracklist:

  1. Below my skin 03:39
  2. Reach down into the deepest white 04:27
  3. Of Snowhere 01:48
  4. Next time I keep my hands down 03:41
  5. All the light I have, I hand to you 06:40
  6. She was my own she was myself 04:45
  7. How to be free from it 03:39
  8. From breaks to shreds it's a short path 04:30
  9. Don't follow me 05:05
  10. I have for you - simple truth 06:15

International Anthem:

"SKYLLUMINA represents a new evolution of London-based, Italian-born composer, bassist, and vocalist Ruth Goller.

Goller is known for her bass and vocal work with Alabaster DePlume, whose music she elevates in live contexts with her genre-less improvisational intuition. She's also known for work with Bex Burch's Vula Viel, whose DIY label released Goller's solo debut Skylla in 2021. And she is known to creative musicians far and wide, with an incredibly diverse CV that includes performance and recording with Shabaka Hutchings, Rokia Traore, Melt Yourself Down, Sam Amidon, Damon Albarn, and many more.

Expanding on the wholly original sound Goller established with her solo work on Skylla – ie compositions of detuned bass under a spectra of soprano voices she arranged and overdubbed herself – SKYLLUMINA complicates matters as she augments every piece with a different drummer. “As a bass- player, I love playing with drummers and I decided to focus on my close connection to that instrument and to the amazing people I met in my life who play it,” says Goller. Her accompanists on the album include International Anthem labelmates Bex Burch, Tom Skinner, and Frank Rosaly, as well as prolific British player Sebastian Rochford and longtime Vula Viel Jim Hart. But more importantly: this music is an immersive hyperfocus for Goller and her patently distinct, singular compositional vision.

SKYLLUMINA, despite its highly conceptual origins, is heavy with human emotion. Its dark washes of melody and contrapuntal percussion could fit easily into a mixtape with indie downbeat / ennui royalty like Grouper or Low, while also being right at home next a Cage-Tudor prepared piano piece. And the piercing, sibilant ice age siren song heard in Goller's powerfully feminine vocal arrangements find her in an otherworld only occasionally inhabited by the likes of Björk and The Knife.

Goller says: “This record is deep insight into my soul and my recent life. It's coming through a meteor storm and grasping the first light... out of a very unexpected tumultuous time... there are feelings of grief, loss, hope , purest of love, connection to my home, death, and new configurations... as well as self-discovery.”

Artist: Ruth Goller

Label: International Anthem

CAT No.: IARC0078LP

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This is a record released by Italian-born bassist Ruth Goller, who lives in the UK, on ​​the contemporary jazz label International Anthem in Chicago, USA, in March 2024.

Contains 10 contemporary pop songs.

*If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us.

Labels and other worksplease use this form. ///Click here to see more International Anthem releases available at Tobira. 

-------------------------------------------

Ask us for digital files. Available 12" black 140gram vinyl or 12" 'Sunrise of Mine' marbled red/blood orange 140gram color vinyl (edition of 333). 

tracklist:

  1. Below my skin 03:39
  2. Reach down into the deepest white 04:27
  3. Of Snowhere 01:48
  4. Next time I keep my hands down 03:41
  5. All the light I have, I hand to you 06:40
  6. She was my own she was myself 04:45
  7. How to be free from it 03:39
  8. From breaks to shreds it's a short path 04:30
  9. Don't follow me 05:05
  10. I have for you - simple truth 06:15

International Anthem:

"SKYLLUMINA represents a new evolution of London-based, Italian-born composer, bassist, and vocalist Ruth Goller.

Goller is known for her bass and vocal work with Alabaster DePlume, whose music she elevates in live contexts with her genre-less improvisational intuition. She's also known for work with Bex Burch's Vula Viel, whose DIY label released Goller's solo debut Skylla in 2021. And she is known to creative musicians far and wide, with an incredibly diverse CV that includes performance and recording with Shabaka Hutchings, Rokia Traore, Melt Yourself Down, Sam Amidon, Damon Albarn, and many more.

Expanding on the wholly original sound Goller established with her solo work on Skylla – ie compositions of detuned bass under a spectra of soprano voices she arranged and overdubbed herself – SKYLLUMINA complicates matters as she augments every piece with a different drummer. “As a bass- player, I love playing with drummers and I decided to focus on my close connection to that instrument and to the amazing people I met in my life who play it,” says Goller. Her accompanists on the album include International Anthem labelmates Bex Burch, Tom Skinner, and Frank Rosaly, as well as prolific British player Sebastian Rochford and longtime Vula Viel Jim Hart. But more importantly: this music is an immersive hyperfocus for Goller and her patently distinct, singular compositional vision.

SKYLLUMINA, despite its highly conceptual origins, is heavy with human emotion. Its dark washes of melody and contrapuntal percussion could fit easily into a mixtape with indie downbeat / ennui royalty like Grouper or Low, while also being right at home next a Cage-Tudor prepared piano piece. And the piercing, sibilant ice age siren song heard in Goller's powerfully feminine vocal arrangements find her in an otherworld only occasionally inhabited by the likes of Björk and The Knife.

Goller says: “This record is deep insight into my soul and my recent life. It's coming through a meteor storm and grasping the first light... out of a very unexpected tumultuous time... there are feelings of grief, loss, hope , purest of love, connection to my home, death, and new configurations... as well as self-discovery.”

Artist: Ruth Goller

Label: International Anthem

CAT No.: IARC0078LP