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Adrienne Teicher

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  • Audibility

    Audibility

    Featuring Donato Laborante

    In Audibility, HYENAZ delve into the politics of sound, inviting audiences to reconsider their relationship to the audible and inaudible, to silence and silencing. Recorded in an ancient man-made cave in the Murgia region of southern Italy, poet Donato Laborante cradles a stalk of Ferula Ferita, his fingers tracing the the fibrous plant ubiquitous to these regions as he delivers an exposition on the different forms of silence. For Laborante, silence is not absence – it is an event.

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    The sung text which follows–eery, gutteral, raw–connects the silence of spaces to the absence of certain speaking bodies from discourse. It compels the willingness of the listener to hear differently; to tune into those voices which are absent, to make absence something worth listening to. This is not about giving voice to the voiceless, of incorporating unheard voices into already established patterns of speech and articulation (and their relavent hierarchies). Audibility dreams of a kind of sensory co-practice not yet realised where silence is not a void, but a dynamic and multifaceted presence.

    Credits

    Text, Vocals, Music & VideoKathryn (Roi) Fischer & Adrienne Teicher
    PoemDonato Laborante
  • No Return

    No Return

    In 2012, V’s raw demos—born in Berlin’s damp undercarriage of artist squats and sleepless nights—collided with Adrienne Teicher’s penchant for lavish synthery, and emerged as fever-drip alchemy. What began as punk’s feral heartbeat pulsed into gothic darkwave circuitry: synths like oil-slick rain, vocals pitched between a serenade and a snarl. The original cassette was released via Adrienne’s Freudian Slit Records and was remastered in 2023 for a limited edition vinyl on Le Petit Signal.

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    The core of the album crystallised in three days, after V asked Adrienne to join her for a last minute gig. Armed with a folder of drum machine samples, and a couple of VSTs poached from a friend, Adrienne set about transmuting V’s punk palette into the neo-synthwave era. Having a limited set of sounds and no time to second guess any decision, Adrienne’s synth mastery feels integrated, raw and immediate, while V’s voice and words are honest, desolate and heart-breaking.

    Now Le Petit Signal has re-released the album on vinyl: a transmission from Berlin 10 years ago, a city in the dying embers of a post-war era that lasted more than 60 years, when there were more squats than start-ups; and know-nothing upstarts could sit in their rooms making music all day and night, for little to no money simply because they wanted to, because it helped them feel alive.

    Credits

    Music, TextV
    Music, Text (Dawning Day)Adrienne Teicher
    VocalsV
    Bass GuitarV
    Synths Arrangements, Drum ProgrammingAdrienne Teicher
    ProductionAdrienne Teicher
    MixAdrienne Teicher
    MasterMikey Young