tangent mek | immutable traveler

This music is recorded on a cold week of November 2023 in the Benedictine Abbey of Soréze, during a GMEA residency. The recording takes place in two halls, that we like to call the blue room and the white room; different in acoustics, both generous in reverberation and overtones.

The space itself is essential in shaping the pieces. We begin improvising without any material or concept in mind. We let our talks, travels, the light and vastness of the Abbey flow into the music.

Three years earlier, we start a long-term project called Tangents 360: a journey through our homelands, an exploration of our origins and of memory. We improvise, record, listen back and select the fragments that intrigue us. We develop this material, distort, record and modulate it, we shift and reshape it until the final version emerges - the music.

anouck genthon | violin
anna-kaisa meklin | viola da gamba
marina tantanozi | flutes, voice

credits

recorded by la cité de sorèze in december 2023 mix & mastering by benjamin maumus, gmea — cncm d'albi
artwork by léa chemarin and elisa ostertag
graphic design by clémentine poquet

Track 2 “Immutable Traveler”: the text comes from the poem “The Morning After / My Death” by Etel Adnan, and the vocal improvisation is inspired by the song “To Alogaki tis Nyhtias” by Stelios Petrakis.

digitally released on june 2025 on montagne noire.

released march 6, 2026

digital | cd - ref cat croix-croix 38

1 glass harmonica 03:06

2 immutable traveler 04:54

3 say it clear, say it loud 06:29

4 drizzle 02:54

5 change 01:13

6 in the air 01:56

7 cylinder 01:42

8 byzantine abolition 05:58

9 virgule 00:35