DuChamp is the project of Federica Rossella - an Italian scientist, musician and curator based in Berlin, religiously devoted to drone.
Some albums possess the richness to dissolve genre boundaries, leaving the listener in a delicate state of suspended balance. The new album 'The Wild Joy' by Berlin-based artist DuChamp is a journey of development, research, and refinement of a deeply personal voice—one rooted in experimentation and a profound connection with sound itself. It pushes the boundaries of drone music through an ambiguous interplay of lush melodies and deep frequencies.
An ambivalent sense of corporeality permeates the work, creating an immersive and self-aware listening experience. Fragments of guitar picking and sporadic samples combined with baritone guitar, voice, organ, synths, bouzuki, electronics add detail to the compositions, which consist of five long, epic pieces that seamlessly fade into one another.
DuChamp's debut album “NAR” has been released in 2013 through the Italian cult label Boring Machines.
In 2015 the split “Sculpture” with French sound artist Felicia Atkinson was released through Idiosyncratics.
In 2016 and 2017 Full Body Massage records released that tapes “Nectere” and the following year “A Blazing World”.
The title is a “motto” much used by DuChamp mother, who died in 2020, as an invented expression to convey an absolute, defiant, celebratory lust for life.
Most of the songs were composed at different stages, during tours, or concerts and took inspiration from landscapes (presents in several field recordings), dreams, apophenias.
The Wild Joy is a co-release between Ramble Records (AUS), Torto Editions (Italy), and Atena Records (Berlin)
Pre-release up now, full digital DL and limited edition vinyl available from Jul 25.
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