Sanr 'ramak' is the sixth release in Lost Tribe Sound’s album series, Salt and Gravity. The series includes albums from Arrowounds, Adrian Copeland (aka Alder & Ash), Tony Dupé (aka Saddleback), ’t Geruis, Federico Mosconi, sanr, mastroKristo, and Alapastel. To receive 'ramak' on CD or Digital at a discount, subscribe to the series here:
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‘Ramak’ (out now on Lost Tribe Sound) is a métissage, a sonic cross-breed so to speak. ‘Ramak’ was not synthesized, nor the product of intelligent design. It is more about multiplicities, encounters, fascinating coincidences, and simply absorbing the surroundings.
'Ramak' began taking shape during one uninterrupted recording session, where sanr made the most of a borrowed contrabass with only one string. They had only six hours with the embattled instrument and worked to make the most of it. As this session was the first and last time they ever saw the contrabass. This would become the only instrument used in the production of 'Ramak.'
Knowing little to nothing of how to properly play the instrument became a strength for the group revealing unconventional roads for the sound to travel. After the session ended the collaging began in DAW. Layering blocks of unruly sound, sanr exposed a rudimentary puzzle of hollowed wood and tense steel.
Just as the phrase suggests in Turkish, ‘Ramak’ is never completely finished or formed. 'Ramak' means to be on the verge of something, a near miss, almost happening. For sanr, it represents roaming the borders between composure and improvisation, sanity and insanity, planning and coincidence, musicianship and experimentalism.
'Ramak' is the third album from the Turkish experimentalists, sanr. Altuğ Kaptan (FenGi) and Devrim Kınlı provide the sound, and Semih Tokkuzun creates the visuals. Sanr have previously released works on Kate Carr's Flaming Pines label and Fallen Moon Recordings.
released February 25, 2022
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Originally released on Lost Tribe Sound. See Catalog:
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BEST OF 2022 – DAN OBSTKRIEG - "Ambient music is often typified by airy synths and pure bell tones, like bathing in pillowy clouds. Sanr’s Ramak, built and manipulated from a short, unstudied recording session with a contrabass, is all reedy drone and rattles and thumps, like tripping through a tangled, tree-fenced thicket by slivered moonlight." - (Dan Obstkrieg) LAST RITES
"The result is not just drones, lovely though they are, but percussive sounds, clanks and booms and creaks. This is pure sound-art, a journey into wood and steel-wound catgut." - (Peter Hollo) UTILITY FOG
"It is modern but at times also almost tribal, where it seems as if you are listening to the music of an undiscovered tribe under the supervision of Autechre." - (Jan Willem Broek) DE SUBJECTIVISTEN
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Total run time: 38 minutes
All tracks by Altuğ Kaptan and Devrim Kınlı
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Photography, Films and Artwork by Semih Tokkuzun
Layout and Design by R. Keane
© sanr / Lost Tribe Sound LLC
℗ Settled Scores LLC (ASCAP)