Valentina Magaletti & upsammy

Organic mix of percussion and electronics by quirky drummer and inquiring producer & DJ.
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The collaboration between drummer Valentina Magaletti and DJ/producer upsammy is about movement, change and variation. The two find each other in the sounds of acoustic and digital melodic percussion instruments. Their first joint album Seismo has a fascinating palette of sounds, from vocal fragments to disorienting rhythms and carefully constructed structures that can just collapse.
Seismo was commissioned by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and is built around recordings that the duo made in the museum rooms. The Amsterdam DJ/producer upsammy has often worked with his own recordings of ambient sounds. Her tracks were picked up by established DJs like Ben UFO and Four Tet and she played at festivals like Dekmantel. Valentina Magaletti is known for her critical approach to drums, including her solo album A Queer Anthology of Drums. The London-based percussionist is part of Moin and Vanishing Twin, among others. She worked with countless musicians, including Mica Levi, Nicolas Jaar and Thurston Moore.