CANADIAN RIFLES & BURNING PYRE

Taking a contemporary and deeply romantic approach to ambient music, “The Snipe & The Clam,” Burning Pyre’s first collaboration on record with Canadian Rifles, displays a blend of lush melodies and synth harmonies set against a dynamic and organic backbone. A fitting representation of both artists’ methods, where opulent, shimmering drones flow with a sense of narrative, contributing a magical, watercolour consistency to the eight instrumental tracks that make up the record. “The Snipe & The Clam” often feels like an emotional exercise about a stop in time, between loving gestures and precise crescendos, delivering both flurries of exposition and a reflection on intimate moments. A definitive apex in the discographies of each of the respective artists, “The Snipe & The Clam” is an elegy to tenderness and the beauty that can only be found in the smallest details.

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OTRO

Otro is a musician and producer based in Valencia, Spain. The project explores a wide range of styles and sounds that blend experimentation and convention. Since 2018, Otro has released over half a dozen works and created performances that have been recognized nationally and internationally by emerging electronic scenes. Otro’s quiet implication in rap and pop, commercial sound design and soundtracks seems to help build a productive tension with his background in left-field electronica; a tension that may explain that spontaneous, unbridled aesthetic that is perhaps Otro’s only tangible characteristic.