The Limbo Channel is a haunting, liminal, late-night album. A complete sound-world of cavernous spaces, textural drones, fractured guitars and mangled voices, all steeped in radio-art culture. Laden with static pulses and snippets of rhythms and electronics that surface before descending back into the murk, it’s both expansive and claustrophobic; a perfect distillation of the idiosyncratic sound Arruti has developed across her recent albums.
After performing at The Wire magazine’s 40th Anniversary event at The Rose Hill, Brighton, she was invited to be artist-in-residence in our Studios. For this she delved deep into her background in radical radio art and transmitted a daily nocturnal broadcast live on Slack City FM across Brighton and Manchester, whilst spending the days making new work in the studios. She invited a long list of collaborators and guest musicians (eg Mark Pilkington (Teleplasmiste), Lars Müller (Victor Sol, +N), Atsuko Kamura (Frank Chickens), MK Ibáñez (Dial), Adam Bushell (Tacit Ensemble) and Kassia Zermon (Bunty, Resonators)) to get involved.
Diving into ideas of sonic channels, transmissions and of liminal night-time spaces, Nad Spiro wanted to establish a fluid creative exchange: herself becoming both the transmitter and receiver of sounds and signals (imaginary, pirate or alien!!), the symbolic antenna at the centre. Across a week of broadcasting and studio work this extended sonic voyage explored resonant connections, feedback and transits as the LIMBO CHANNEL started to take form..!
Besides albums on prestigious Spanish label GEOMETRIK Records, Nad Spiro releases can be found on imprints like Farpoint Recordings, Silent Records, Front&Follow, Nuova Materia, Sloow Tapes. Arruti’s extensive experience includes collaborations with artists like My Cat is An Alien and Kim Cascone, and radio projects for Radiophrenia, Camp Radio or The Neon Hospice. In 2023 Rosa was invited be part of the exhibition “PIONERES [D]’ones i experimentació sonora” highlighting innovative Spanish avant-garde women.
