Cartas Náuticas

Since ancient times, the sea has been part of human cultural imagination, as an immanent space that is constantly reconfigured, leaves no record and, therefore, does not share the properties (natural or human) to which the land is tied.

It is in this interstice, where Bahía Mansa and Yama Yuki come together to explore the ocean from an aural perspective that allows reconciling and reconfiguring the personal visions on the sea that these artists have, from the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean coasts where they inhabit and used to inhabit respectively. To do this, both musicians collect the sound architecture of the oceans, and, after the exchange of material, each one reimagines the aquatic space of the other in an exploration of sounds and textures that converge in this pelagic space. The album ends by challenging the concept of the fixed that has become fluid today.

Composition, assembling and field recording by bahía mansa and Yama Yuki
Photography by bahía mansa
Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi