Barene by MArtin Perret & Samuel Leipold

Samuel Leipold and Martin Perret come together in a sonic exploration of the convergence of free improvisation, ambient soundscapes, and experimental electronic music.
Their inaugural release, Barene, originated in the Venetian Lagoon. Barene are silt islands formed by the accumulation of sediment carried in slow underwater currents. These formations, alternately submerged and revealed by tidal movements, serve as a conceptual framework for the duo’s compositional approach.
Built around improvisations on guitar and drums, the music emerges through the integration of field recordings, modular synths, and digital post-production. Leipold and Perret trace these fleeting forms with a method that privileges spontaneity, iteration, and accumulation, allowing musical fragments, gestures, and textures to coalesce over time. The result is a series of temporally fluid, song-like structures that mirror the transient and layered nature of the barene themselves.

Samuel Leipold, git, fx,
Martin Perret, dr, fx

Written, recorded and produced by Samuel Leipold and Martin Perret except Drums on Melodion and Bottleneck recorded by Luca Castellaro at Velvet Studio Mestre.

Mixed by Florian Schneider
Mastered by Luka Aron
Artwork by Suze Whaites
Photos by Jessica Prinz