Lyra Pramuk live at Volksbühne ft. Kianí del Valle and Nana

A unique general performance of Pramuk’s debut album Fountain, with insights from the trio on how they reworked it by way of dance and motion.

Lyra Pramuk’s debut Fountain was 1 of 2020’s standout albums. Employing her own voice as raw materials to be reworked and performed as an instrument, Pramuk explored thoughts of write-up-humanism, gender and id by means of what she called “futurist folk music”. Released just as the Covid pandemic commenced, the album turn out to be a therapeutic vessel for listeners throughout the world, even though Pramuk was not able to completely tour its tracks for over a calendar year.

In September 2021, Pramuk premiered a exclusive Fountain live exhibit at Berlin’s Volksbühne, made in collaboration with two members of the Berlin-based interdisciplinary dance business, KDV DANCE ENSEMBLE. On stage, Pramuk was accompanied by founding choreographer and director Kianí del Valle, as properly as choreographer and performer Nana, who brought a new dimension to the audio of Fountain by means of dance and motion.

Lyra Pramuk live at Volksbühne ft. Kianí del Valle and Nana

“Every time I complete this audio I understand something new about myself in the process,” Pramuk tells Point. “It’s anything that keeps offering back to me in a way that is working with healing and dealing with panic, anxiety, I deal with that every time I execute this tunes.”

As Kianí del Valle describes, environment Fountain to movement felt like a pure way to evolve the album. “There’s a thing about her vocal get the job done not owning unique text and likely off a visceral impulse or emotion that I believe it is definitely ordinary that dancers will connect to it,” del Valle suggests. “There’s a thing definitely powerful, like an instant umbilical wire between the way that she’s employing voice and the motion observe of any artist.”

In this initial film from Simple fact, Pramuk, del Valle and Nana chat about their very own private associations with Fountain, the inspirations behind their perform and the dwell display, and how the concepts and themes guiding Fountain intently align with the motion of the body. “Any style of motion releases endorphins that heal you, and it goes back to the album for the reason that [Lyra] selected to go to the human body to figure out one thing [she was working with to heal herself], mainly because the voice is connected to the body,” Nana states.

Delta, an album that characteristics reworks of Fountain tracks by Colin Self, Caterina Barbieri, Eris Drew and much more is readily available now on Bedroom Neighborhood. For much more details on Lyra Pramuk and KDV Dance Ensemble check out their web-sites.