Album cover above is downloadable
Release date: distributed December 15
Artist: Sound Animal (female, solo -- Rosemary Bensko)
Location: Berkeley, CA
Contact: flameflower@runbox.com
Tracks: 16
Music: Female voice singing lyrics, non-lyrics, speaking, and vocalizing with ever-explorations of new territory, over a combination of unexpected physical and synth instruments. Most music is progressive through-composed fugue motifs with layers of polyphony inhabit a world lush with reverb. Sound Animal is known for venturing outside the fences into areas not reserved for humans: this is not just music: this is life.
Genre: Experimental, though accessible. Breaks trip hop, future synth, and a bit of rock.
Moods: Standing up for rights, feral, soaring, whimsically playful, liminal lullaby, intensely celebrating being alive, eerie, lonely, exotic travel, dystopian, poignant
Suggested DJ: Experimental and college radio stations
Cover image of "A Life" self-portrait of Rosemary, 2022, Berkeley.
About the band:
Sound Animal is the artist name of Rosemary Bensko, though when speaking about her contributions, she often uses the abbreviation SA to make a distinction between herself and the band. It's primarily a one-woman band, Among around 200 songs so far under the Sound Animal moniker, around twenty-eight are collaborations with men in California, France, the Netherlands, and Poland. A few of those are joint ventures, but otherwise, SA produces all the tracks entirely. Sound Animal also features on many other bands' recordings.
There are no public performances but plenty of radio shows, such as at Stanford's KZSU, Parish News, and It's Psychedelic, Baby! podcast. Sound Animal is hired to create a soundtrack for a slow burn psychedelic psychological suspense horror movie and a complex dystopian video game, and is open to further scoring and track licensing.
Links:
SoundCloud
Codes available upon request.
"The standout single, See No See, Know No Know, from the disarmingly compelling California-hailing artist Sound Animal will awaken senses you never knew you had. " -- Amelia Vandergast for A&R Factory coverage