Martina Bertoni (Karl Rec/IT), Berangere Maximin (Karl Rec, F)

Martina Bertoni (Karl Rec/IT), Berangere Maximin (Karl Rec, F)

Cellist and composer Martina Bertoni started playing the cello at a very young age. Classically trained, her career further developed around experimental and film music, for which her cello has been featured in numerous records, works and soundtracks for films and series. After two EPs and her debut full length All The Ghosts Are Gone (2020), Bertoni joined the Karl roster where she released Music For Empty Flats in January 2021 to critical acclaim (a.o. one of the Top Ten drone albums of 2021 / Acloserlisten.com).

On her new album Hypnagogia she continues to explore the sonic possibilities of her cello which she uses as primary source for composition and sound processing through reverbs, feedbacks and sub-bass frequencies, thus crafting sonic sculptures, rich of atmospheres and frictions, fed by ambient as much as drone and modern composition.
https://martinabertoni.bandcamp.com/

Working out of her private studio since 2008, Bérangère Maximin has developed her own approach to sound art and electronic music, composing dense, immersive pieces with immediate impact. On six albums which have aroused international interest, she has revealed a taste for mixing disparate sounds together with a sense of detail, effusive, lyrical playings with the digital material and tight nuanced writing. Bérangère Maximin’s music engages the listener in consideration of space and textures. The sound ambivalence and its independence from its original source being at the centre of her work.
The composer has been released on Tzadik’s Composer Series (USA), Sub Rosa’s Framework (BE) and Crammed Discs‘ Made To Measure (BE). In 2017, she responded to the producer Craig Leon’s invitation to take part in the re-activation of his Atlas Realisations label (UK) with a fifth electroacoustic series named Frozen Refrains which came out on vinyl in June of that year.
Her latest album named Land of Waves has been released on double vinyl on Berlin based label Karlrecords in June 2020.
The album has obtained a nomination to the French Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs 2021 with the piece Off The Page.
https://www.berangeremaximin.com/