Last Updated 11/05/2024 07:22 PM EST
LOG IN
CART
Cart Items :
Sub Total :
artist
label
title
catalog #
any field
advanced
New Releases
Artists
Labels
Forthcoming
Best Sellers
Reviews
Jobs
soundclips
[All Countries]
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
Europe
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Korea
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russian Federation
Scotland
Senegal
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
UK
Ukraine
United States
Uruguay
World's Leading Terrorist State
World's Misleading Terrorist State
[All Formats]
Book
Cassette
CD
Clothing
Digital
DVD
MISC
VHS
Vinyl
[All Genres]
CLASSICAL
COMEDY
ELECTRONIC
EXPERIMENTAL
HIPHOP
JAZZ
Misc
ROCK
WORLD
artist
catalog #
label
title
any field
Tweet
Send Email
PRICE:
$17.00
$17.00
IN STOCK
01. Pose Dia - At The Beach
Your browser does not support the audio element.
02. Pose Dia - Smoz Opera
Your browser does not support the audio element.
03. Pose Dia - How To Find The Exit In Case Of Fire
Your browser does not support the audio element.
04. Pose Dia - Harvest III
Your browser does not support the audio element.
05. Pose Dia - Scanner
Your browser does not support the audio element.
06. Pose Dia - Walking Running
Your browser does not support the audio element.
07. Pose Dia - A Gap In The Step
Your browser does not support the audio element.
08. Pose Dia - Phrase Paraphrase
Your browser does not support the audio element.
09. Pose Dia - Get Up High
Your browser does not support the audio element.
10. Pose Dia - Infinity Pool
Your browser does not support the audio element.
11. Pose Dia - Spacerine
Your browser does not support the audio element.
12. Pose Dia - Cloud
Your browser does not support the audio element.
ARTIST
POSE DIA
TITLE
Front View
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
BUREAU B
CATALOG #
BB 347CD
BB 347CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
10/16/2020
Front View
is the album debut of film-maker and musician
Helena Ratka
, alias
Pose Dia
. A soundtrack and theater composer, as well as resident DJ at Hamburg's Golden Pudel Club, Ratka emerged onto the scene as one half of
Shari Vari
(together with
Sophia Kennedy
). Now all these pathways or winding roads have converged to create Pose Dia and an impressive album of many facets -- a self-assured debut. Born in Hamburg, where she continues to live and work, Helena Ratka played the saxophone in her school's big band. She then set the sax aside and began experimenting with electronic sounds, initially with film soundtracks in mind for her studies. It was around this time that she picked up a regular DJ gig at the Golden Pudel Club as Ratkat, which led to her meeting Sophia Kennedy. The pair formed a duo, Shari Vari, recorded an album and played numerous concerts. This collaboration galvanized Ratka into focusing her efforts more intensely on making music, a welcome counterweight to the somewhat drawn-out process of filmmaking. Early demo sessions laid the groundwork for
Front View
. "The album was produced in different places between 2018 and 2020, mostly in my studio at home. Some tracks or ideas came to me in Heidelberg and Lübeck, where I was working on music for theatres." The resulting album takes you on a mysterious journey through a darkish landscape. Pose Dia's tracks assume the most diverse forms -- from supercooled synth-wave sounds or the weightless effortlessness of pop on the one hand, to the dystopian urgency of contemporary club music or flashes of hip-hop on the other. In spite of this panoply of influences and blackwall hitches, the music is never drowned out in a sea of influences, instead the songs radiate a magnetism all of their own. Within the first few sequencer-driven bars of the opening track "At The Beach", the listener is well and truly hooked. The unique quality of Pose Dia's music may owe something to Ratka's pictorial way of working. Enigmatic stories, sounds, words, and voices in the role of instruments help to make
Front View
into such a kaleidoscopic album, serene and yet tumultuous, minimalist and tender yet capable of exploding in raw anger.
Other releases on BUREAU B
Other releases by POSE DIA