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Cultivated Sound is a hybrid between a collective and label in Brooklyn, New York. We are focusing on showcasing artists locally and internationally. Our mission is constantly evolving as we strive to integrate programs with collaborators and residents. To cultivate music as sound and introduce new music breaking genres.


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PREMIERE:
DAWN
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DAWN ALBUM RELEASED 04.10.2024

Brooklyn-based artist Maŕa reveals her virtuosic, genre-spanning debut album Dawn. Poised to make an impact with a collision of dark ambient, trip hop, experimental and techno, the LP’s six tracks move through feelings of discovery, madness, sadness, disorientation, romance, darkness and power. A keen collaborator, the LP sees her coming together with San Francisco band Ssleeping Desiress, known for inventive, melancholic darkwave, Italian producer Mystics who comes good on distorted textures and emotional melodies and band regular and producer Virtual Crimes with heavy drums and broken synthesis.
                              

RELEASE INFO

Artist: Artist: Maŕa Peralta
Album Title: Dawn
Label: Cultivated Sound (New York)
Formats: Digital, Vinyl  
Genre: Noise, Experimental, Ambient
Electronic, Trip-Hop, Techno, Soundtrack

Release Date: 04.10.2024
Digital Release Date: April 10, 2024
Vinyl Release Date: 01.24.25 









Brooklyn-based experimental artist Maŕa is driven by a desire to be powerfully evocative an visionary in everything that she creates. Producing for a decade, she now spans a thrilling cross-pollination of dark ambient, IDM, techno, experimental and more. Her genre-spanning repertoire is undoubtedly best sampled in 2024’s debut album Dawn, a six-tracker that visits feelings of discovery, madness, sadness, disorientation, romance, darkness and power.



Tracklist:

A1: God Damn You - 05:02
A2: Romantico - 06:00
A3: Solaris - 05:35
B1: Desperate Love - 04:21
B2: Escape - 06:53
B3. Conclusion - 03:04
6 Tracks: 30:56

Landing via her label and creative agency Cultivated Sound, it reboots the imprint that she originally launched in 2014 as an artist collective with events, radio shows and more. A few years later, it became an outpost for records from herself, as well as Ariel Zetina, Anna Wall, Phon.o, Maria Chávez, Hiroko Yamamura, Frankie Bones, Phil Moffa and Rosa Anschutz. As already deduced, Maŕa is multifaceted. As a DJ, she’s a regular at The Lot Radio and has played at some of the city’s most notable haunts including Elsewhere, Bossa Nova Civic Club, H0L0, Market Hotel, and Output. Beyond self-releasing her work, her interrogations of calm and chaos can also be found on Nocturnal Frequencies, Always Human Tapes and most notably, Air Texture, with her stirring track ‘Rebellion’ landing on its charged compilation series alongside Silent Servant, Rrose, Octa Octa, Laurel Halo and Luke Slater. A year on, she’d re-release the record on a V/A EP with remixes by LDY OSC and S. English.

God Damn You


Desperate Love 


Her propensity for pushing boundaries shines when she takes on live performance, further utilising and uniting her artistry in jewellery craft, fashion, sound design and dance. Active in New York’s fashion scene, Maŕa owns jewellery and accessories brand Maŕa Peralta Studio, with Eartheater, Julia Fox and TYGAPAW being among those to have worn her striking handcrafted stainless steel pieces. As spotlighted by PAPER Mag, in 2023 she debuted an New York Fashion Week, performing at House of Yes with the KRATER collective to showcases her new jewellery collection DESTRUCTION. Collaborating with guitarist Wilson Flores, this was an immersive, exhilarating experimental set that brought together a distinct fusion of fashion, design, sculpture, expression, movement, art and techno. In the afterglow of Dawn, she’s lining up a collaborative album with Italian producer Mystics, one which emerges from a serene mixture of emotional decay and nuanced feelings to explore concepts of personal transmission and impermanence.

Destroying with Maŕa Peralta, Paper Magazine

04.01.2024
All music written by Maŕa
Produced by Maŕa - God Damn You, Romantico, Desperate Love, Escape
Solaris Produced and Mixed by Virtual Crimes, Executive produced by Maŕa
Desperate Love guitar, percussion, and outro by Ssleeping Desiress
Conclusion produced by Mystics and executive produced by Maŕa
Mix and Master: Alexander Gentil
Art Direction and Photography by Maŕa
Artwork and Design by Sam Clarke
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