Body Lapse

Description

Cara Tolmie and Rian Treanor’s debut collaboration, Body Lapse, is a striking encounter between embodied vocal work and pre-rave experimentation—a soundworld where meaning escapes, bodies stutter, and rhythm distorts.What begins as a dialogue between Tolmie’s mesmerizing Chant Interne technique—a deeply embodied vocal practice exploring breath, touch, and physicality—and Treanor’s fractured, hyper-rhythmic electronic structures, evolves into something far stranger and more visceral. The result is a tactile, shifting sound environment that resists easy categorisation: dissociative dance music that is both intimate and otherworldly.Body Lapse grew out of their electrifying first performance at Counterflows Festival 2023, where they were paired for a commissioned piece at Glasgow’s historic Arches venue. This initial spark of improvisation has now condensed into a full-length album, recorded between Stockholm and Rotherham in 2024.Throughout its runtime, the album blurs the boundaries between voice and machine, sensation and symbol. It’s a place where concrete poetry and cut-up rhythms unravel in real-time, where semantic modulations shimmer like hallucinations, and where breath becomes both matter and metaphor. Treanor’s perverse rhythmic sensibility meets Tolmie’s fractured narratives and vocal modulations, creating a rich, playful, surreal, and often disturbing sound experience.Body Lapse is a record of ecstatic instability—a speculative, sensual, and fiercely original collaboration that propels both body and rhythm into thrilling new territories. For listeners drawn to the cross-sections of performance, club music, and vocal experimentation, this album is a must-hear.