Lathe cut record with accompanying postcard booklet, digital single
Released by Full Spectrum Records
March 4, 2022
A reflection on the complexities of gender identity and relationships to place, the two starkly contrasting tracks show different sides of the same person and processes. One side offers a playful, completely electronic transformation, while the other uses vocal samples alongside a slowly undulating synth support part.
The booklet offers contemplations on Sordahl’s own journey with gender identity and how they address that through creative music. Images of expansive landscapes accompany the text. The images offer a physical counterpoint to Sordahl’s words — water that fades into horizons, views with gradually shifting textures and light, cityscapes posed against urban nature.
From Full Spectrum Records:
“Our friend Shanna Sordahl treats us to two very different sides of new work, sans the cello that was the centerpiece of their previous work on FS, Radiate, Don’t Fear the Quietus. Five Corners is raw synthesis, electrical patterns repeating and building before collapsing in on themselves. Stargazing is built around a vocal sample, chopped and weaved around itself.”
Released March 4, 2022
Composed and produced by Shanna Sordahl
Mastered by Andrew Weathers
Cover artwork by Gretchen Korsmo