Laura Kampman

"Photographer and composer Laura Kampman hooks up four phones to a mixer and turns voice notes and location recordings into a beautiful weave of found sound, flute, new age/concrète and impromptu songs that conjure a shimmering, cathartic soundworld. ‘Coming into daily life’ provided a way for her to process the grief she felt when she lost someone close. Retreating from the outside world, she found safety behind her phone's screen and instead of listening to music, became ever more drawn to voice and location recordings, acting like a kind of surrogate memory bank. Her approach is most evident on the title track, as voices overlap watery drips and improvisations - on guitar, piano and glockenspiel - allowing us to peer into her shared surroundings. Her feather-light touch is so vulnerable and charming, even a skeletal, harmonium-led cover of Robbie Williams' 'Angels' is surprisingly poignant, a reminder of the time she and her partner would sing each other to sleep over voice message. 'Waves Piece' begins with frothy tidal woooshes, this one centres Iver Kim's electronic flute. Kampman juxtaposes her instrumental sounds with nuanced external recordings - everything's buried and indistinct, like muffled chatter from a nearby room. Leaving the environmental noise - footsteps, gushing waters - to wisp and bellow in the background. It's a startling, effortlessly enjoyable composition, that contrasts its predecessor's naked intimacy with levitational peacefulness." - Boomkat