The pashmina is a shawl-type garment whose best use is to shape and regulate body temperature. It also shares the name of a Freiburg-based duo; formed by Vincent Gross and Nicola Marthaler. Instead of being seen as a traditional duo, they describe themselves as a support group. Providing each other with discovered melodies and meeting in the middle to showcase a sound derived from years of diligent musical curation.
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Veterans affiliated with the music of the Friborg scene, their contribution is best observed within the framework of their various activities. On the one hand, Nicola co-founded TRNSTN Radio, a station whose identity is characterized by being a place of creation, encounter, experimentation and reflection. Vincent, like the other, enriches the scene as a board member of the legendary Fri-Son, in addition to having co-founded Ablette Records with his partner.
The songs that are recorded on this album demonstrate the particular way of understanding the sound of Los Pashminas, located at the opposite end of what is commercial, what is generic, what works: what they do is, on the contrary, a kind of unstable magma of pulsations and glows, of melodic strokes and blurred textures, pursuing a serene, spiritual, almost ascetic expression. All those languages and influences from which it was nourished dialogue on this album, creating new, different and highly evolved sound organisms.
The idea that drives this album refers us to one of the crucial attributes of music, and that is its inexhaustible capacity to generate moods that protect us at all times. Its meaning is in the hands of electronic music lovers, beyond the dance floor and all hedonism.