Christian Eede
, February 4th, 2021 16:42
Luca Yupanqui s Sounds Of The Unborn was made inside the womb with the help of her musician parents
Sacred Bones is gearing up to release the first album made by a person while they were still inside the womb.
Due out in April, Luca Yupanqui s
Sounds Of The Unborn was made with the help of her parents, Psychic Ills bassist Elizabeth Hart and Lee Scratch Perry collaborator Iván Diaz Mathé. They used biosonic MIDI technology to make the record, hooking MIDI devices to Hart s stomach, which translated the vibrations to the Mathé s synths.
The album began to come together over the course of five hour-long recording sessions. After that, Hart and Mathé edited and mixed the sessions, trying to intervene as little as possible, they say. They mixed the album last year with Luca, then a newborn baby, joining them in the studio. You can watch a video for V4.3 Pt. 2 from the album above.
First album recorded by an unborn baby to be released
Luca Yupanqui s debut album Sounds Of The Unborn was recorded while she was still in her mother s womb
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This April will see the release of what is almost certainly the first album recorded by an unborn baby.
Luca Yupanqui’s debut album ‘Sounds Of The Unborn’ was recorded while she was still in her mother’s womb, and is set for release on April 2 via Sacred Bones.
Yupanqui is the child of musicians Elizabeth Hart, bassist in experimental rock band Psychic Ills, and Iván Diaz Mathé, a collaborator with the likes of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry.
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Luca Yupanqui s Sounds of the Unborn LP was made with Biosonic MIDI technology
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Pitchfork reports. Aptly titled
Sounds of the Unborn, the LP was recorded while Luca was in utero. The album arrives on April 2nd.
The meditative song’s music video includes Super 8 footage shot during the recording sessions, which artist Victoria Keddie later processed with analog gear.
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Sounds of the Unborn was made using “biosonic MIDI technology” to translate Luca’s movements into music notes that were sent to synthesizers. According to the video description, the toddler’s parents, Psychic Ills bassist Elizabeth Hart and Iván Diaz Mathé who has collaborated with Lee “Scratch” Perry, hooked up the tech to Hart, “transcribing its vibrations into Iván’s synthesizers.”