New Album: Souvenirs

As part of Yenirce’s current exhibition Eye Level at Petzel Gallery in New York, the artist debuts a new album. 

Souvenirs is an aural experience channeling an archive of memories. This LP, composed under the artist’s music project Rosaceae, imagines a space in which the listener can convoke with the dead, where the living are long gone. During a residency in Paris, the artist visited the Sacré-Cœur cathedral in Montmartre, overlooking the city. Yenirce was reminded of the construction of the Ilisu Dam and the subsequent flooding in her home region, as the artist’s family had to exhume and relocate their ancestral tombs to the tops of neighboring mountains. Yenirce shapes sound through recorded vocals, field recordings, and ambient instrumentation. Through these soundscapes, Yenirce opens a space for exchange and transmission.

The album was written and produced by the artist with additional vocals by Shira Lewis, mixed by Anders Fallesen and mastered by Rashad Becker. The vinyl copy includes a text written by Mazlum Nergiz.