Mixtape #169


Hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and now based in between Switzerland, Barcelona and Buenos Aires, Violeta García is an extremely talented cellist, composer, improviser and curator. Having first studied classical and popular music on the cello, before delving into contemporary composition and improvisation, she has more recently developed a heavy interest in open sound spaces. Working across many contexts and art forms, including improvisation, music composition, dance, film and visual art, she has collaborated with dozens of contemporary artists and musicians from different genres and has performed at numerous festivals and venues around the world, as a soloist, a collaborator and a member of experimental rock project Blanco Teta. With García's third solo album, IN / OUT, a beautifully haunting, gloomy and emotive record, arriving this week, we could not be more excited to have her put together this enthralling mix journeying through the influences at play in her own music, including a couple of gems from herself. Press play already!

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  1. Violeta García & Hora Lunga – I think I Just Died A Lil Bit // Buzz 2 [-OUS]
  2. Piotr Kurek – Klamm [Unsound]
  3. Violeta García – IN II [Bongo Joe]
  4. Aylu – Industrial [Orange Milk Records]
  5. Scatt Jangdan Play – Jangdan DNA
  6. Jurg Frey – Extended Circular Music No.2 [Musiques Suisses]
  7. Kali Malone – Meantone Canon
  8. Perila – mad sh [Paralaxe Editions]
  9. Jamira Estrada – Now will always be feat. Miao Zhao [Czarnagora]
  10. KAVARI – Healing Spring
  11. Arthur Russell – Soon To Be Innocent Fun/Let’s See [Plexifilm]
  12. Catherine Lamb – Divisio Spiralis for string quartet [Kairos]
  13. Fred Again… & Brian Eno – I Saw You [Text Records]
  14. Inuit – Entertaining Song [Sub Rosa]

Violeta García & Hora Lunga team up for collaborative album, I’ll Wait For You In The Car Park

Violeta García & Hora Lunga

Photo: Victoria Papagni

Last month, Violeta García announced the release of her new solo album IN / OUT. The Argentina-born, Spain-based cellist, composer and curator is on a roll as of late, as she has another exciting release on the horizon that has piqued our interest, this time a collaboration with Swiss musician and composer Hora Lunga. Entitled I’ll Wait For You In The Car Park, it marks their first joint album and is set for release on April 25th through -OUS. The album was birthed after the two met in 2023 and the exchange of sketches and demos developed spontaneously from there. They bounced ideas off each other between South America and Europe, leading to several studio sessions in 2024. “We made most of the decisions impulsively without much questioning. That takes a lot of trust,” says García. Described as a “work of extremes”, on the upcoming I’ll Wait For You In The Car Park both artist’s ideas mix together and complement each other. They unravel fragments of everyday life through musical layers laced with field recordings and audio notes they gathered throughout the year.

Conjuring both a sense of unease and hope, the enveloping ‘i think i just died a lil bit’ is the first single to emerge from the album and you can listen to it below.