ML Buch
with Joshua Chuquimia Crampton
Friday, December 13, 2024
Doors: 8PM
Show: 9PM
All Ages
No Strobe Warning
Standing
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ML Buch
Join us for an immersive journey into the sonic world of Danish composer and producer ML Buch as she performs music from Suntub.
About the Record
Suntub is the second full length album from ML Buch, a double record of 15 pieces by the Danish composer and producer, entering further into the realm of electric guitars and layered vocals along with exploring new instrumental expressions.
Since 2021, ML Buch has released windows into Suntub in the form of Fleshless hand (2021) and Somewhere / High speed calm air tonight (2022). Suntub unfolds this world in full with its tall skies, river mouths and singing tracks. With an offset in open tunings on a 7-string Stratocaster, slide and fretless tablet guitars and deep-sampled virtual guitars, the album draws up narratives and locations in a distant time. Props like puddles, well buckets, bone barrels and flesh rags live in these scenes, suspended in air, drifting about, climbing stairs and ladders, all given life through guitar sensibilities and visceral vocals.
Like ML Buch’s overall practice, Suntub is both utterly precise and intuitively fluid. Vocal and instrumental pieces counterbalance, giving the album its own unique pace. Some motives are disjointed, others flaring, oddly familiar and highly personal. It holds distractions and temperament with the same intensity, perhaps a relic of the artist’s deep engagement with the record, which was initiated five years ago and has since then been written, recorded, produced and mixed by ML Buch herself.
About the Artists
ML Buch
ML Buch is Marie Louise Buch, a Copenhagen-based composer, producer, guitarist and vocalist. Following the EP ‘Fleshy’ in 2017 she released her critically acclaimed debut album Skinned on Danish imprint Anyines in 2020. Suntub is her second full length release, a double album consisting of 15 tracks, which will be released in October 2023 on 15 love.
In her compositional practice ML Buch sketches up her music in an almost architectural way. The raw material is generated through immersion in playing and assembling as a way of triggering random magic. Her live performances, both in solo and group formations, is reflective of her love of combining 7-string electric guitars in open tunings with synthetic instruments and electronic experiments. ML Buch has performed at the likes of Pitchfork Paris Avant-Garde, Roskilde Festival, Fuchsbau Arts Festival, and the sound and vision programme at CPH:DOX, as well as performing as part of Laurie Anderson’s Talking Choir project. ML Buch has done commissioned work with poet Ingvild Lothe and contributed to releases by artists like CTM, Jura and Astrid Sonne, with whom she’s also performed live.
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton is a California based musician and artist belonging to the Great Pakajaqi Nation of Aymara people. Between 2020 and 2024, he has released four full-length albums of guitar compositions as well as composing the score for Amaru's Tongue: Daughter (2021).
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