Strange Meridians
Thessa Torsing aka Upsammy plays to her most sanguine side on a suite of finely pruned and immersive synth environments glistening with the pharmaceutically affective touch that has defined her works for PAN, Die Orakel and Dekmantel.
Equally known as a dance-starter and composer of filigree melodic delicacies, Upsammy has, over the past five years, emerged among Europe’s leading proponents of electronica in that vein of interest that reaches back thru Aleksi Perälä’s colundi scale explorations via likes of Plaid to Anthony Manning’s exquisite gems and earliest Aphex Twin. With ‘Strange Meridians’, Upsammy’s follow-up to the ‘Germ in a Population of Buildings’ (PAN, 2023), she presses on the sculptural, poetic, and emotive aspects of her sound across a definitive solo volley that serves as an opening act for topo2, a new label from Amsterdam promising to pursue adventurous electronic music with purposeful enthusiasm.
On a tightrope balance of iridescent and pillowy softness, Upsammy unfurls extended lines of melodic thought in poetic form. She uses track titles as extra-musical cues to her instrumental lyricism, as with bittersweet opener ‘Lapis Manalis’, a nod to the sacred stone covering a gate to Hades in ancient Roman religion, and signifying a portal to otherworldly realms that manifest between the fluttering fractals of ‘Edge of Sleep’, and wrong end of telescope peer into ‘Cosmo’.
A prevailing breeze of Caribbean rhythmelodic patterns sweep into mind with the tongue-tip tang and swirling ether of ‘Aqualizing’ and arabesque daydream sequence ‘The Guest’, whilst ‘Spiral Biting Its Tail’ hints at her club-adjacent roots in its nimbly puckered, naturally swooning drum programming, before ‘Mazing’ feels to look back to pastoral Euro-electronica precedents in Harmonia via the likes of Anthony Manning’s Irdial jewels, and ‘Centripetal Lense’ is just pure, pearlescent ambient electronica in the most classic sense developed since the ’90s.
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Thessa Torsing aka Upsammy plays to her most sanguine side on a suite of finely pruned and immersive synth environments glistening with the pharmaceutically affective touch that has defined her works for PAN, Die Orakel and Dekmantel.
Equally known as a dance-starter and composer of filigree melodic delicacies, Upsammy has, over the past five years, emerged among Europe’s leading proponents of electronica in that vein of interest that reaches back thru Aleksi Perälä’s colundi scale explorations via likes of Plaid to Anthony Manning’s exquisite gems and earliest Aphex Twin. With ‘Strange Meridians’, Upsammy’s follow-up to the ‘Germ in a Population of Buildings’ (PAN, 2023), she presses on the sculptural, poetic, and emotive aspects of her sound across a definitive solo volley that serves as an opening act for topo2, a new label from Amsterdam promising to pursue adventurous electronic music with purposeful enthusiasm.
On a tightrope balance of iridescent and pillowy softness, Upsammy unfurls extended lines of melodic thought in poetic form. She uses track titles as extra-musical cues to her instrumental lyricism, as with bittersweet opener ‘Lapis Manalis’, a nod to the sacred stone covering a gate to Hades in ancient Roman religion, and signifying a portal to otherworldly realms that manifest between the fluttering fractals of ‘Edge of Sleep’, and wrong end of telescope peer into ‘Cosmo’.
A prevailing breeze of Caribbean rhythmelodic patterns sweep into mind with the tongue-tip tang and swirling ether of ‘Aqualizing’ and arabesque daydream sequence ‘The Guest’, whilst ‘Spiral Biting Its Tail’ hints at her club-adjacent roots in its nimbly puckered, naturally swooning drum programming, before ‘Mazing’ feels to look back to pastoral Euro-electronica precedents in Harmonia via the likes of Anthony Manning’s Irdial jewels, and ‘Centripetal Lense’ is just pure, pearlescent ambient electronica in the most classic sense developed since the ’90s.
Thessa Torsing aka Upsammy plays to her most sanguine side on a suite of finely pruned and immersive synth environments glistening with the pharmaceutically affective touch that has defined her works for PAN, Die Orakel and Dekmantel.
Equally known as a dance-starter and composer of filigree melodic delicacies, Upsammy has, over the past five years, emerged among Europe’s leading proponents of electronica in that vein of interest that reaches back thru Aleksi Perälä’s colundi scale explorations via likes of Plaid to Anthony Manning’s exquisite gems and earliest Aphex Twin. With ‘Strange Meridians’, Upsammy’s follow-up to the ‘Germ in a Population of Buildings’ (PAN, 2023), she presses on the sculptural, poetic, and emotive aspects of her sound across a definitive solo volley that serves as an opening act for topo2, a new label from Amsterdam promising to pursue adventurous electronic music with purposeful enthusiasm.
On a tightrope balance of iridescent and pillowy softness, Upsammy unfurls extended lines of melodic thought in poetic form. She uses track titles as extra-musical cues to her instrumental lyricism, as with bittersweet opener ‘Lapis Manalis’, a nod to the sacred stone covering a gate to Hades in ancient Roman religion, and signifying a portal to otherworldly realms that manifest between the fluttering fractals of ‘Edge of Sleep’, and wrong end of telescope peer into ‘Cosmo’.
A prevailing breeze of Caribbean rhythmelodic patterns sweep into mind with the tongue-tip tang and swirling ether of ‘Aqualizing’ and arabesque daydream sequence ‘The Guest’, whilst ‘Spiral Biting Its Tail’ hints at her club-adjacent roots in its nimbly puckered, naturally swooning drum programming, before ‘Mazing’ feels to look back to pastoral Euro-electronica precedents in Harmonia via the likes of Anthony Manning’s Irdial jewels, and ‘Centripetal Lense’ is just pure, pearlescent ambient electronica in the most classic sense developed since the ’90s.
Thessa Torsing aka Upsammy plays to her most sanguine side on a suite of finely pruned and immersive synth environments glistening with the pharmaceutically affective touch that has defined her works for PAN, Die Orakel and Dekmantel.
Equally known as a dance-starter and composer of filigree melodic delicacies, Upsammy has, over the past five years, emerged among Europe’s leading proponents of electronica in that vein of interest that reaches back thru Aleksi Perälä’s colundi scale explorations via likes of Plaid to Anthony Manning’s exquisite gems and earliest Aphex Twin. With ‘Strange Meridians’, Upsammy’s follow-up to the ‘Germ in a Population of Buildings’ (PAN, 2023), she presses on the sculptural, poetic, and emotive aspects of her sound across a definitive solo volley that serves as an opening act for topo2, a new label from Amsterdam promising to pursue adventurous electronic music with purposeful enthusiasm.
On a tightrope balance of iridescent and pillowy softness, Upsammy unfurls extended lines of melodic thought in poetic form. She uses track titles as extra-musical cues to her instrumental lyricism, as with bittersweet opener ‘Lapis Manalis’, a nod to the sacred stone covering a gate to Hades in ancient Roman religion, and signifying a portal to otherworldly realms that manifest between the fluttering fractals of ‘Edge of Sleep’, and wrong end of telescope peer into ‘Cosmo’.
A prevailing breeze of Caribbean rhythmelodic patterns sweep into mind with the tongue-tip tang and swirling ether of ‘Aqualizing’ and arabesque daydream sequence ‘The Guest’, whilst ‘Spiral Biting Its Tail’ hints at her club-adjacent roots in its nimbly puckered, naturally swooning drum programming, before ‘Mazing’ feels to look back to pastoral Euro-electronica precedents in Harmonia via the likes of Anthony Manning’s Irdial jewels, and ‘Centripetal Lense’ is just pure, pearlescent ambient electronica in the most classic sense developed since the ’90s.
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Thessa Torsing aka Upsammy plays to her most sanguine side on a suite of finely pruned and immersive synth environments glistening with the pharmaceutically affective touch that has defined her works for PAN, Die Orakel and Dekmantel.
Equally known as a dance-starter and composer of filigree melodic delicacies, Upsammy has, over the past five years, emerged among Europe’s leading proponents of electronica in that vein of interest that reaches back thru Aleksi Perälä’s colundi scale explorations via likes of Plaid to Anthony Manning’s exquisite gems and earliest Aphex Twin. With ‘Strange Meridians’, Upsammy’s follow-up to the ‘Germ in a Population of Buildings’ (PAN, 2023), she presses on the sculptural, poetic, and emotive aspects of her sound across a definitive solo volley that serves as an opening act for topo2, a new label from Amsterdam promising to pursue adventurous electronic music with purposeful enthusiasm.
On a tightrope balance of iridescent and pillowy softness, Upsammy unfurls extended lines of melodic thought in poetic form. She uses track titles as extra-musical cues to her instrumental lyricism, as with bittersweet opener ‘Lapis Manalis’, a nod to the sacred stone covering a gate to Hades in ancient Roman religion, and signifying a portal to otherworldly realms that manifest between the fluttering fractals of ‘Edge of Sleep’, and wrong end of telescope peer into ‘Cosmo’.
A prevailing breeze of Caribbean rhythmelodic patterns sweep into mind with the tongue-tip tang and swirling ether of ‘Aqualizing’ and arabesque daydream sequence ‘The Guest’, whilst ‘Spiral Biting Its Tail’ hints at her club-adjacent roots in its nimbly puckered, naturally swooning drum programming, before ‘Mazing’ feels to look back to pastoral Euro-electronica precedents in Harmonia via the likes of Anthony Manning’s Irdial jewels, and ‘Centripetal Lense’ is just pure, pearlescent ambient electronica in the most classic sense developed since the ’90s.