Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon bring us a haunting electroacoustic journey built from Belgrade’s forgotten sonic debris. At the heart of this soniferous exploration are found tapes salvaged from flea markets, carefully interwoven with field recordings made between 2004 and 2024 and processed on the legendary EMS Synthi 100 at the Electronic Studio of Radio Belgrade. From this unlikely conjunction, sombre compositional structures emerge. Abandoned sonic relics are transformed into living memory, and fragments of lives on the brink of oblivion become an intimate portrait of a city shaped by upheaval, resilience, and tenderness.
Voices recovered from answering machines, dictaphones, and reel-to-reels surface as pockets of the past, echoing the chaos of lives in their unstoppable flow. Together, they draw listeners into a time-bending archaeology of sound, history, and human presence—set against the post-war vacuum of a society deeply submerged in depleted and corrupted values.
Released May 4, 2026
Composed by Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon using found tapes, sessions on the EMS Synthi 100, and field recordings made in Belgrade between 2004 and 2024
Josipa Tadić, Lana Grahek · graphic design
Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon · liner notes
Luka Prinčič · mastering
Maruša Hren · binding & print
Luka T. Zagoričnik, Luka Prinčič · executive production & promotion
City of Ljubljana, Ministry of Culture · financial support
Produced by EMANAT.si
Released by KAMIZDAT.si
cat.no: KAM082