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Releasing Spores

by Christina Vantzou

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PannionSeer Vantzou soaks a variety of rural field recordings, wispy synths, and hushed instrumentation in a thick broth of plate reverb and fine-grained EQ to create mesmerizing ambient pieces that are designed to mimic the behavior of mushrooms. Listening to this is a lot like peering through a microscope--she curates and magnifies the tiniest of sounds, carefully coaxing out their delicate textures and slipping them into the light.
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Charlie Moonbeam Vantzou making mushroom music was a must-add for my collection of phonosynthetic art.
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480billion Absolutely stunned by this album. Going to listen to this next time I have a hike through the forest. Tape sound compliments this music very well. What a gem! Favorite track: Multiplying Into Fields Of Little Voices.
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    Slow Moves 001
    Artist: Christina Vantzou
    Album: Releasing Spores
    Length: 34 minutes

    Track list
    1.   Life of a mushroom
    2.   In a forest, on some moss, growing
    3.   Releasing spores
    4.   Floating as a preferred mode of travel
    5.   Multiplying into fields of little voices
    6.   Spores floating in air
    7.   Inter-dimensional
    8.   Changing colors
    9.   A soundtrack for growth

    Composed by Christina Vantzou

    Recorded in La Pine and Clatskanie, Oregon; Brussels, Belgium; and Brooklyn, New York
    Mixed by CV† & JAB*
    † tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9
    * tracks  2  4 &  6
    Changing colors includes samples from Philippe Dao, Diego Losa and Gilles Racot courtesy of GRM
    Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
    Artwork by Slow Moves
    Portrait by John Also Bennett

    Christina Vantzou’s Releasing Spores is a cast of elements revealing vignettes of experimentation within a curious locale. These thirty-four minutes of music perform the creation of a sporic language evolved from field recordings, organic instruments, and synthesized elements. Minimal melodic themes recur to ground each of the nine songs as the parallel parts of a form. A soundtrack of events, composed and delivered as a documentary about a place, communicates an environment that's been thoughtfully tuned in and revealed. Vantzou’s ambient languages inhabit the air, releasing tones that buoyantly float, drift, and settle upon the ground, to then fluently grow. These are compositions that witness the formation of a thinking place where ideas reflect and converse. It is the sound of an element enunciating while gliding through an atmosphere; multiplying into fields of little voices to imagine an avant-garde play in the emerald glow of night. The release of spores documented in sound as they create abstract purpose upon plateaus of aural thought.

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Christina Vantzou’s Releasing Spores is a cast of elements revealing vignettes of experimentation within a curious locale. These thirty-four minutes of music perform the creation of a sporic language evolved from field recordings, organic instruments, and synthesized elements. Minimal melodic themes recur to ground each of the nine songs as the parallel parts of a form. A soundtrack of events, composed and delivered as a documentary about a place, communicates an environment that's been thoughtfully tuned in and revealed. Vantzou’s ambient languages inhabit the air, releasing tones that buoyantly float, drift, and settle upon the ground, to then fluently grow. These are compositions that witness the formation of a thinking place where ideas reflect and converse. It is the sound of an element enunciating while gliding through an atmosphere; multiplying into fields of little voices to imagine an avant-garde play in the emerald glow of night. The release of spores documented in sound as they create abstract purpose upon plateaus of aural thought.

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released October 25, 2021

Slow Moves 001
Artist: Christina Vantzou
Album: Releasing Spores
Length: 34 minutes

Track list
1.   Life of a mushroom
2.   In a forest, on some moss, growing
3.   Releasing spores
4.   Floating as a preferred mode of travel
5.   Multiplying into fields of little voices
6.   Spores floating in air
7.   Inter-dimensional
8.   Changing colors
9.   A soundtrack for growth

Composed by Christina Vantzou

Recorded in La Pine and Clatskanie, Oregon; Brussels, Belgium; and Brooklyn, New York
Mixed by CV† & JAB*
† tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9
* tracks  2  4 &  6
Changing colors includes samples from Philippe Dao, Diego Losa and Gilles Racot courtesy of GRM
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Artwork by Slow Moves
Portrait by John Also Bennett

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