Asterisms #7 · 18. April, 2026 · Soft Canyon
Soft Noise presents: Asterisms #7
- Tavare
- Pale Signals
- DJ Modh Coinníollach
Saturday, 18. April 2025 · 19:00
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Asterisms is a small new series for slow sounds, non-linear noises, ecstatic encounters, and silver symmetries. Occurring intermittently, the seventh iteration of these events presents Tavare and Pale Signals.
Tavare
Tavare is a slowcore trio from Berlin.
From Dusted Magazine’s review of Tavare’s 2025 LP, Too Small To Be So High:
Pop of any sort is not likely to be on listeners’ minds the first time they hit play on the glacial “Unentwine,” but over repeat listens Too Small to Be So High reveals itself as an unusually tuneful, even hummable example of the kind of stark, gradual music they traffic in. On that first track Nadja’s Aidan Baker (also on guitar here) takes vocal lead, but with the following “Lucy,” Tavare is revealed to be a multiple-vocalist outfit, with bassist Tristen Bakker frequently taking the lead, and both harmonizing on a lovely, gentle cover of Dinosaur Jr.’s “Thumb.” Even drummer Ángela Muńoz gets in on it, joining in as they all turn the end of “Left Behind” into a round, and adding a bit of spoken Spanish to the patient swell of “El Océano.”
Muńoz plays with brushes here, and over the more restrained interplay of the other two she often hits with the impact of a cannonball. Partly this is due to the recording process; invited to play a concert in a church, the trio spent the afternoon recording these seven songs with the natural reverb of the space and as few overdubs as possible. The result doesn’t sound at all like a live album, but the room tone carries through and melds with the hushed intensity of the playing to form something special.
Pale Signals
Pale Signals is a unit that allow sounds to gradually unfurl and take their form, letting the intervals exhale. Focusing the attention that exists within slowness, within the moment when a note hangs in the air and shimmers. Moving molecules in a room somewhere outside the Ringbahn, and three circles on the wall.
DJ Modh Coinníollach
Soft Canyon resident tunemeister.