Different Songs. Vol 1

by Sasha Elina

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1.	Eva-Maria Houben – My Sweet Love 02:41	info	buy track
2.	Tomás Cabado – A Song 01:15	info	buy track
3.	Tomás Cabado – Take Care 01:17	info	buy track
4.	Seamus Cater – Early Riser 05:24	info	buy track
5.	Johan Lindvall – Alone 01:24	info	buy track
6.	Johan Lindvall – Buffalo 01:48	info	buy track
7.	Johan Lindvall – Silence 01:23	info	buy track
8.	Johan Lindvall – Giraffe 03:01	info	buy track
9.	Johan Lindvall – Traps 02:31	info	buy track

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The album presents work by composers Seamus Cater, Tomás Cabado, Eva-Maria Houben, and Johan Lindvall, written for solo voice and duo with instruments. This is Volume 1 of the project ‘Different Songs’, devised to share songs of similar nature: gentle, quiet, in some ways strange, in some ways haunting, and in the end ‘different’.

The voice was recorded in my room I've been living in for a couple of months, at the famous brutalist Alexandra & Ainsworth Estate in London, a former council housing block stretched above and along the railways. The recordings captured occasional trains passing by under my window, and it felt like a necessary additional layer to the music.
The guitar played in Johan Lindvall’s songs was recorded by Tomás Cabado quite far from the physical location of the voice, in Buenos Aires. The piano in Cabado’s songs was played by Tim Parkinson somewhere in London, separately from voice. Lost in space and time, the performance, however, seemed to be able to overcome those distances. Perhaps, the sound of a train somehow symbolises this arrangement.

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released March 19, 2024

Eva-Maria Houben – My Sweet Love (1)
Music, words: Eva-Maria Houben

Tomás Cabado – A Song (2); Take Care (3)
Music, words: Tomás Cabado

Seamus Cater – Early Riser (4)
Music, words: Seamus Cater
[The text is a biographical portrait of artist L.S. Lowry]

Johan Lindvall – Five songs for voice and guitar (5-9)
Music: Johan Lindvall
Words: Marianne Moore

Voice: Sasha Elina
Piano: Tim Parkinson
Guitar: Tomás Cabado

Mixing, mastering: Feliks Mirenskiy

Photo, handwriting: Felix Charteris
Album cover: Sasha Elina

Special thanks to Henry Cyer and Francis Moore for providing necessary equipment for the recording, and Aamsh Filippova for helping with the cover design.

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Sasha Elina London, UK

Performer, creator, and curator of music often referred to as experimental and contemporary classical.
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Singing languages: English and Russian.
Surname pronounced Yélina.
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