
Improvised outdoors across boats, forests, and mountaintops, Vevey listens as much as it speaks. Julian and Dan invite the natural world into their process, blurring the lines between instrument and environment to create something immediate, tactile, and full of presence.
Clay Kin is Swiss percussionist Julian Sartorius and UK electronic artist Dan Nicholls.
Vevey is an album of seven tracks, distilled from over seven hours of improvised percussion and electronics. Recorded mostly outdoors—on pedalo boats, up mountains, and deep in forests near the namesake Swiss town of Vevey—it is imbued with the soft fascination of birdsong, rushing water, and chattering children.
Vevey resists genre. As musicians, Sartorius and Nicholls bridge the divide between acoustic and electronic soundscapes. Sartorius’ raw, organic percussion interweaves with Nicholls’ keyboard-triggered samples and harmonic landscapes, creating a dialogue where the lines between rhythm, melody, and noise dissolve. Clay Kin identify their outfit as an audio-visual collective, with visual artist Lou Zon (Louise Boer) rounding out the group, creating videos to accompany both the recorded music and the live experience.
The lines between musician and environment blur, and the result is something wholly unique—a soundscape where earth and machine, rhythm and noise, tradition and experimentation converge.
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Improvised outdoors across boats, forests, and mountaintops, Vevey listens as much as it speaks. Julian and Dan invite the natural world into their process, blurring the lines between instrument and environment to create something immediate, tactile, and full of presence.
Clay Kin is Swiss percussionist Julian Sartorius and UK electronic artist Dan Nicholls.
Vevey is an album of seven tracks, distilled from over seven hours of improvised percussion and electronics. Recorded mostly outdoors—on pedalo boats, up mountains, and deep in forests near the namesake Swiss town of Vevey—it is imbued with the soft fascination of birdsong, rushing water, and chattering children.
Vevey resists genre. As musicians, Sartorius and Nicholls bridge the divide between acoustic and electronic soundscapes. Sartorius’ raw, organic percussion interweaves with Nicholls’ keyboard-triggered samples and harmonic landscapes, creating a dialogue where the lines between rhythm, melody, and noise dissolve. Clay Kin identify their outfit as an audio-visual collective, with visual artist Lou Zon (Louise Boer) rounding out the group, creating videos to accompany both the recorded music and the live experience.
The lines between musician and environment blur, and the result is something wholly unique—a soundscape where earth and machine, rhythm and noise, tradition and experimentation converge.
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