ₐₙcₑₛₜᵣₐₗ by Clelia
This experimental avant-garde spoken word sound collage by Clelia, released through Treefrog Productions is an English-language work that explores texture, voice, and layered sonic abstraction. Operating firmly within the sound collage tradition, the album assembles fragments of speech, found audio, and musical elements into a cohesive experimental form, emphasizing atmosphere, narrative fragmentation, and emotional resonance.
The material was first recorded in Fall 2023 under the band name San Beulah, an experimental side project created by Clelia during a period when she did not feel comfortable releasing music under her real name. San Beulah served as a creative outlet for risk-taking and exploratory composition, allowing the project’s identity to develop freely before being unified and reintroduced under her primary artist name. Drawing conceptual influence from the minimalist and experimental approaches associated with Alvin Lucier and the eclectic, boundary-pushing ethos reflected in releases connected to Ninja Tune, the album presents a deliberately unconventional listening experience rooted in avant-garde sound collage practices.
San Beulah is a sonic collage, built from fragments of sound (YouTube samples, home recordings, and Splice loops) stitched together into something new. A mix of nostalgia and experimentation, the music blends found textures with original compositions, shaping raw materials into evolving soundscapes.
The latest album is a reaction to the tension of October 2023. Whether it was a good idea or not, it channeled the chaos pouring in from every direction...conversations, the news, the overwhelming sense that we’ve been living in a doomsday era for far too long. This music captures that tension, drawing from personal reflections on what past generations endured, what we continue to witness, and the cycles that define human life.
It’s an edgy exploration using soundscapes...both organic and digital...to process the never-ending tragedy. Most of the vocals were recorded in a shower...that was my studio. That and my MacBook Pro speaker. Like that one piece my friend Noah (who passed from cancer) created: a man sitting in a chair, bombarded by a blast of information from his phone. The message, ironically shared in a digital format, was simple...unplug.
Tracklist
| 1. | ʙꪶɪᴛᴢ°·.¸.·°¯°·.¸.·°¯°·.¸.-> | 7:10 |
| 2. | Cacophony. | 6:15 |
| 3. | 𝒜𝓈 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒲𝒾𝓈𝒽... bₐₛₖₑₜ dᵤᵣᵢₙg wₐᵣ ᵣₐᵢdₛ | 11:13 |
| 4. | Ox Sepiudat | 12:12 |
| 5. | Bᵣᵢₘₛₜₒₙₑ. | 24:43 |
| 6. | 𝚁𝚎𝚍 𝚃𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚊𝚝 𝙽𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 | 17:01 |
| 7. | ₚₑᵣcₒₗₐₜₒᵣ syncopate | 20:23 |
| 8. | ℘♛𝐵𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓏 𝑅𝑒𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓈𝑒 (𝐼 𝒯𝓇𝒾𝑒𝒹)♛℘ | 12:34 |
Credits
Built from fragments of sound YouTube samples, home recordings, and Splice loops stitched together into something new.
