Carlota Gadea Marqués (10" LP)

Gadea’s original soundtrack to In the Beginning, the new animated short fi lm by director Ala Nunu, unfolds across three surreal, yet surprisingly real, stories about people and the world around them: a lunar probe’s tardigrade cargo, 16th-century myths surrounding birds of paradise, and Hong Kong’s pandemic-driven hamster cull. The fi lm is a tonally absurd documentary- fi ction essay on anthropocentrism and the human need to control narratives. This is Gadea’s fi rst musical accompaniment for animation. Collaborating with Marina Herlop on vocals, Gadea’s sonic palette sits somewhere between fi eld-recording minimalism, chamber electro- acoustics, and the more fragile end of speculative composition.