Immutable traveler by tangent mek

 

tangent mek must be one of those albums that will stay with me forever. It is not only exceptionally well-produced and well composed but beautifully assembled in terms of means and techniques and steered and manoeuvred excellently by the intuitive musical sense of Anouck Gethon, Anna-Kaisa Meklin and last but definitely not least Marina Tantanozi.

The whole album is a tale - it moves, strays, and has its own odds and ebbs but it stays on the line with compositional aspect and never goes beyond what was the main theme - a travel, a journey. 

The music itself - stems from improvised sessions which then led towards more organised compositions, organised in terms of the three members of the project wanted to achieve.

The harmony of this album is like a medicine - some sort of perennial wisdom that bleeds through the phrases and the spoken word, and the phrases. 

I have to remind myself that harmony is not necessarily a question of tonality - it is something that goes beyond purely metrical and musical language. This album embodies that.

It's rich in flavour you can just taste briefly - it opens up every time you listen to it in full. 

A beautiful and a rare gem. 

Immutable traveler

by tangent mek

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Tangent+Mek | Immutable Traveler Limited Edition CD

Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

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digifile CD, comes with a sticker, handcrafted by ligne de crête and hand-pasted by carton records.

artwork by léa chemarin and elisa ostertag

graphic design by clémentine poquet 

Includes digital pre-order of Immutable traveler. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

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digital album releases March 6, 2026

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this music is recorded on a cold week of november 2023 in the benedictine abbey of soréze, during a gmea residency.

the recording takes place in two halls, that we like to call the blue room and the white room; different in acoustics, both generous in reverberation and overtones. the space itself is essential in shaping the pieces.

we begin improvising without any material or concept in mind. we let our talks, travels, the light and vastness of the abbey flow into the music. three years earlier, we start a long-term project called tangents 360: a journey through our homelands, an exploration of our origins and of memory.

we improvise, record, listen back and select the fragments that intrigue us. we develop this material, distort, record and modulate it, we shift and reshape it until the final version emerges - the music.

the music of the trio is an open-ended sonic space. dense, broken, the sound surfaces and structures are continuous, oscillating between noise, drone and traces of folk music fragments that remain rather distant associations.

the trio gently leads the listener into the sounds themselves, using memory as a process as well as a research method: focusing on their countries of origin over the past years, the trio re-traces their sonic soil and endlessly reactivates its language.

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releases March 6, 2026

anouck genthon | violin

anna-kaisa meklin | viola da gamba

marina tantanozi | transverse flutes, voice

recorded at la cité de sorèze in december 2023

mixed and mastering at gema - cncm d'albi by benjamin maumus

track 2, ‘immutable traveler’: the text is taken from etel adnan's poem ‘the morning after / my death’ and the vocal improvisation is inspired by stelios petrakis' song ‘to alogaki tis nyhtias’

artwork by léa chemarin and elisa ostertag

graphic design by clémentine poquet 

with the support of ligne de crête

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digitally released on june 2025 on montagne noire

montagnenoire.bandcamp.com/album/immutable-traveler

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