The experimental Swiss duo of guitarist and electronics player Samuel Leipold and drummer and sound artist Martin Perret created their debut album, Barene, in a collaborative, free improvised process between Venice, Lucerne, and Berlin that lasted a year. They exchanged audio files, rearranged them with digital techniques, supplemented them with additional ideas, and manipulated them with effects and digital post-production.
This duo reimagines the Venetian Barene salt lagoons formed by the accumulation of sediment carried in slow underwater currents. Barene’s evocative, nuanced, and layered sonic formations follow the tidal movements of the Venetian Lagoon, incorporating field recordings. The album offers eight cinematic pieces that explore the convergence of free improvisation, ambient soundscapes, and experimental electronic music.
Leipold and Perret’s working method managed to keep the spontaneity, iteration, and accumulation of a live, urgent, and unpredictable free improvised session. The music bubbles and gurgles and mimics the constant flow, and spiky, noisy underwater collisions of fragmented motifs and pulses. These sonic formations mirror the transient and layered nature of the Barene themselves.
Eyal Hareuveni
Samuel Leipold (guitar, electronics, effects), Martin Perret (drums, electronics, effects)
