Currents and Orders [LP]

Teresa Rotschopf - Currents and Orders [LP]

Teresa Rotschopf, a musician and composer from Vienna, presents her second solo album, Currents and Orders -- a radical, delicate, yet grandiose sonic journey between experimental pop, new music, and improvised composition. Currents and Orders was recorded in an unusual location: a stalactite cave in Styria, Austria. Together with a small group of musicians (Maria Gstattner: bassoon, contraforte; Alex Kranabetter: tuba, trumpet, French horn; Patrick Dunst: saxophone, duduk; Florian Klinger: marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, cymbals, gong, stalactite; Patrick Pulsinger: gong, stalactite; Ulrich Schleicher: gong) and in co-production with Patrick Pulsinger, Rotschopf recorded the album in June 2023 -- deep underground, far from daylight, but all the closer to archaic sounds and resonances. The cave becomes not only an acoustic stage, but also a symbolic space of memory, retreat, and transformation. The album comprises four pieces -- including two large-scale tracks. Rotschopf first developed the desire to record in a cave in the summer of 2022. What began as a visual and sonic image became a concrete project -- supported by the Austrian Cave Association. In June 2023, Rotschopf and her musicians spent three days in a cave in the Styrian Forest. Almost a kilometer of cable was laid, and equipment and instruments were carried deep underground. Rotschopf describes the recording situation as a kind of return to herself: "I descended into this cave, as if I could descend into myself, into my own womb [...] What we did in the cave could just as easily be called 'recording music,' but it could also be called 'remembering' -- remembering the earth, the cave, and humanity." Currents and Orders is an album like a ritual: haunting, atmospheric, bold in its form, and deeply rooted in both physical and emotional space. Music that takes its time, uses space, and pushes boundaries. 
A1. Currents And Orders (10:47)
A2. Ode (5:48)
B1. O Please My Soul (Rest On My Back) (4:45)
B2. I Open My Gates (For You) (23:31)