PREMIERE & REVIEW: VA - Pioneers EP [Envelope Audio]

Most of us agree that music is a universal language of the feelings, something that has the power to create connections defying limits of time and space. Today's premiere is one-third of a startling dialog of generations releasing as 'Pioneers' EP on a vision-driven Sweden's label Envelope Audio.

EP collaboration in an ambient study between the label founder Lioness with Johanna Knutsson, Tora Vinter, and Fjäder reinventing the sound of three pioneers of electronic music by creatively molding through contemporary lenses their distinct tools, original technics, and mannerisms.

'Oramics' by Johanna Knutsson & Lioness is a sensitive tribute to one of the first electronic music composer and theorist Daphne Oram, masterfully preserving her defining feeling for analog warmth of atmospheric soundscapes - a playful, almost whimsical melodic patterns from a sonic world that she invented.

In "Delian Archives', Tora Vinter & Lioness use the legendary Synthi EMC VCS 3 II as used by Delia Derbyshire. Inspired by Derbyshire’s splicing techniques, Tora Vinter & Lioness cut and layered some of the recordings they made and effortlessly succeed in channeling a purely wicked groove that foretold the electronic sound evolution.

Fjäder & Lioness in 'There, there, theremin' features Ravens'vor's Theremin improvisations combined with a hypnotic piano loop that recreate Clara Rockmore's emotionally delicate expressions of her Theremin performances.

Equally beautiful and exploratory, Pioneer EP is out on April 24 (Vinyl) and May 31 (Digital)