Sonic journey crafted to cultivate poetic gestures amidst Fauna, Flora, Fungi, Mineral Waters, Wind, and Earth. Each track is an exploration of sound's constant transformation, akin to dragonfly particles swimming in the air. Like waves occupying a space in the spectrum, the compositions work with the movement, condensation, and lightness of the air.
Hailing from Argentina, QOA (Nina Corti) is a musician and sound artist who seeks to remedy this aural dysbiosis. SAUCO is a fertile and bracing voyage into the Argentinian wilderness, a journey both mournful and healing—an effort to trace what has been lost, what remains, and what might return. Each of SAUCO’s nine tracks draws its name and inspiration from a lifeform (be it plant, animal, lichen, insect) native to QOA’s homeland. These songs are carefully crafted offerings to their namesakes: attempts to study, honor, and convey the essence of the thing.
Perhaps even we might consider these songs to be collaborations between QOA and this humble roster of entities—collaborations with often therapeutic applications. What, for example, can we as individuals draw from the Sambucus Nigra or Black Sauco—the tree that serves as the album’s title track (and which grows, coincidentally, both in QOA’s Argentina as well as Leaving Records’ home-base of Los Angeles)?
