Drift.
Symbiosis
Drift. is the project of London based artist Nathalie Bruno. Starting in 2015, her debut EP Black Devotion was released on the Italian label Avant! Records. After playing a range of diverse shows in UK and Europe and the release of the second EP, Genderland in 2017, she locked herself in her East London studio to assimilate a new set of influences that synthesised in what became Symbiosis, her first full length record. "The seed for symbiosis' was sewn after having picked up a book from a charity shop by chance in Finsbury Park, The Fourth Industrial Revolution" - Klaus Schwab. It really struck a chord inside and brought on a deep exploration of myself and the world I was seeing form around me. As a form of therapy, I set myself the target of finishing an album by the end of the year, I didnt know what or how but I knew I didnt want it to be compiled of singles and had envisioned songs weaving together, forming a subtle message as a whole yet to not be a 'concept album as such. I was attracted to sounds, in any form; Classical music, 70s electronic pioneers like Harmonia, Cluster, Faust, New Yorks tape experimentalists, the avant-pop landscapes of Chris & Cosey to John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Kate Bush and Broadcast: all resonated with me a greatly whilst I devoured any form of literature or films that came my way by suggestion or by chance and stored every word and every image in a little box somewhere up there. I let it come out in its own time by revisiting old songs I had recorded over the years, until I started moulding new sounds from old ones, cut ups of synth jams done alone, field recordings from my phone to use as samples . Eventually it was all starting to make sense.