Label: Erstwhile Records

毎度の如く素晴らしい完成度!!フィールドレコーディング・ファンも是非!!KyeやAnother Timbre、Unfathomless、Regional Bearsからも音源をリリース、毎度硬派な環境音及びコンクレート作を届けてくれる当店人気の米コンポーザー/画家の女性作家Vanessa Rossetto。米Erstwhile Recordsからのソロ作としては3年振り2作目となる、2025年ダブルCDタイトル[Pictures Of The Warm South]。日常風景をベースに様々なサウンドスケープをコンクレート的、またコラージュな感覚にてレイヤー化、まるで複雑な音の絵画の様な世界を展開しています。マスタリングはGiuseppe Ielasi。



Erstwhile presents Pictures Of The Warm South, Vanessa Rossetto's the seventh Erstwhile release, her second ErstSolo. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, designed by Matthew Revert. Double CD, six-panel digipak. Primarily focused on composing works that draw on a diverse pallet of chamber instrumentation, field recordings, electronics and a wide array of different objects, with a practice that explores each through a combination of extended and traditional techniques, Vanessa Rossetto has been working at the boundaries of the American vanguard for well over a decade, producing beautiful and challenging solo efforts for a diverse number of imprints, including Kye, Another Timbre, No Rent, Erstwhile, and numerous others, as well as collaborations with figures like Michael Pisaro, Sarah Hennies, and Lee Patterson.

six panel digipak, double CD, photos by Vanessa Rossetto (except disc 1 photo by Wendy Vaughn), design by Matthew Revert

disc one

1 the warm south (ft. lucy liyou)
2 big ears
3 prodigalin’
4 beeping jimmy
5 the minimum
6 pool water, salt water, and the water in your head
7 battle of the network stars
8 nine wide
9 today’s special value

disc two

1 mornin’ chorus
2 the majestic
3 crystal palace
4 the enchanted cottage
5 finish the pins
6 the chapel
7 ghosts in the halls
8 whole stories 2024


mastered by giuseppe ielasi