*200 copies limited edition* “Songs of Erosion” is a project by Clara Levy & Victor Guaita Igual revisiting the 13th-century Spanish songbook “Cantigas de Santa María” through the lens of erosion.
Rejecting a historicist interpretation, Clara Levy and Victor Guaita Igual develop a set of instructions inspired by geological processes. These serve as a basis for approaching pitch and rhythmic material, shaping it into new compositions. Among the cantigas explored by the duo, this record focuses on two, articulated through the concepts of sedimentation and landslide: “Alluvium” (CSM 27) and “Landslide” (CSM 209).
With “Alluvium,” the musicians reflect on repetition as a process of both sedimentation and renewal, conveying a polyphonic pattern through persistence and reciprocity. “Landslide” offers a haunting exploration of instability as a generative force.
