Description
Time Based Editions’ first ‘cover version’, by musicians Ulla and Perila, pollinates ADE DEA, Sara Rossi’s stunning photographic reconnaissance of a barely-lit botanical underworld. Tracing the images with eyes, fingers and ears, we follow the growing and dying pains of a deciduous world.
LOG are Ulla and Perila, each known for their influential and varied output on labels such as 3XL, Motion Ward and West Mineral, spawning descriptions such as “scudding, warm and fizzing energies … immersively sensual, micro-fibrous, spongiform smudged-ambient … brittle rhythms and swirling dioramas”. Their work together often takes nature as both inspiration and sound source.
They collaborate here with Ant Hampton, co-director of Time Based Editions, on the voices and dramaturgy.
This is a ‘cover version’ in both a musical and publishing sense: a new cover is wrapped around someone else’s book, with a commissioned soundtrack expanding its contents. Under this cover is ADE DEA, published in 2024 by Gli Ori: a ‘twilight magic herbarium’ by artist Sara Rossi, whose photographs testify to a decade of sunset encounters at the city’s edge.
LOG (multiform musicians Ulla and Perila), with their own masterful navigation of light and darkness, guide us through the pages of this mysterious territory with a delicate and evolving long-form listen composed of filigree, edge-land textures shifting between the organic and the synthetic. Field recordings and found-sound percussives give way with the seasons to colour – warm chords, delicious gasps, liquid explosions.
ADE DEA: a cover version
95 pp, 43 min
Music and sound: LOG (Ulla & Perila)
Photography in ADE DEA: Sara Rossi
Concept and dramaturgy: Ant Hampton
Voice: Mia Hampton / Gabriel
Time Based Editions cover design: Roland Brauchli
Format: 16,7x24cm
Pages: 95
ISBN: 9789464772630
