EP64-63 by Dali De Saint Paul, Agathe Max, Valentina Magaletti, Yoshino Shigihara

EP/64 (the Ephemeral Project 2016-2022, formed by vocalist Dali de Saint Pau) is 'a wild improvisation combo with variable geometry' that consisted of 64 live collaborative performances. 'EP 64-63', is a recording of the 63d concert that took place at New River Studios, London on 02/05/2022.

Dali de Saint Paul (HARRGA, Viridian Ensemble, etc.) is a vocalist experimenting in various genres and using her voice to explore its potentialities with a rare intensity. Electroacoustic composer and violinist, Agathe Max (Abstract Concrete, KURO, Mésange, These Towns, etc.) works around textures and delves a singular path through collaborations. Yoshino Shigihara (Yama Warashi) feeds her politically-aware and tender psychedelic pop with traditional japanese dance and folk music, free-jazz and African music. Valentina Magaletti (Vanishing Twin, Holy Tongue, Moin, CZN, Better Corners, Avvitagalli, V/Z, etc.) is a percussionist who stands out in a wide spectrum of experimental music from the most subtle to the highly energetic ones, performing in galleries as well as huge venues.

Indeed each musician’s own world can at a time echo with melancholia and darkness, though the power generated by their crossroad appears to be, thanks to a strange alchemy, a vivid and luminous force. On stage, the tide also swelled thanks to Laura Phillips’s forms and colours. The visual artist was blending live 16 mm film footage with her own creations, swaying between abstraction and figuration. The images on A and B side of the tape are from Laura’s performance that night and give a good taster of her work.

The musical encounter between these four widely experienced improvisers at New River Studios had to be memorable and, indeed, it gave start to a new all-female outfit Ondata Rossa.

Dali : « About Ondata Rossa – red wave/tide. The title came to me after a jam and chat with Joanna Pucci, years ago. We were talking about the sometimes overwhelming effect of period on some women, and being also political (in Europe left ideas are usually associated with red colour), it could be the surge of new ideas and actions, we urgently need to reinvent the world, life together. (…) I think it’s a good title for our set as people from the audience told me that they felt literally immersed in our sound that night, which had a positive and invigorating effect on them.”

Permanent Draft is happy and proud for 'EP64-63' to be their first label release (DRAFT 1).

permanent draft is all womxn label and imprint founded by Valentina Magaletti and Fanny Chiarello highlighting works with a certain taste for fragmentary, irrepressible creative eruption and lo-fi experiments; leaving the grandiose apart to pay and bring attention to the sounds, details and anecdotes of everyday life, picking up raw material from the ordinary