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Walca
12+ albums
electronicexperimentalSweden
about
Walca is an independent electronic/experimental music duo from Stockholm, Sweden, that combines electronic and acoustic instruments with sampling techniques to create soulful sonic landscapes. The duo formed in 2017 through their mutual love for Bon Iver's album "22, A Million", and the innovative works of Nils Frahm, Sigur Rós, Jon Hopkins and latter day Thom Yorke (of Radiohead) further encouraged Furrer & Pinna to move their goalposts towards what, three years later, became ”Synapses”. In 2020 the band created "Compromised Recordings" a record label that aims to help independent acts to produce and release music. "We want to create a local community of artists that share our love for music. In cahoots with Argentina born guitarist Federico Pinna, Furrer has turned their fascination for sound design and audio landscapes into their debut album, ”Synapses”. Almost entirely instrumental, the more you listen to it the songs segue into an eternal space where melody and sonic tranquility are entwined. Pinna’s guitar playing may bring the summer sketches of The Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly to mind, the scope of ideas update sonic relatives like the progressive balearica of A Mountain of One or fellow Swedish travellers Studio. But without sounding like any of them. There’s a crispy freshness to WALCA that couldn’t have been achieved in any other time than right now. Until that moment Furrer had spent most of the last decade on the road as a successful intern
