Samana: PPL Momentum Accelerator
Samana was realised in the heart of a mountainous forest, during a year-long journey Rebecca Rose and Franklin Mockett undertook across the natural wilderness and distant cities of Eastern Europe. Lending their instincts solely to the road, and to the embodiment of freedom, their first creations were written in the vast isolation of nature and performed on the streets of the towns and villages they passed through. As two multi-disciplinary artists, Samana weave together their distinct poetry, music, striking photography and fine-art into one unique project. Crafting every element of creation themselves, the process the pair adopt in the creation of their work is one of strong ritualistic devotion and is produced in their analogue recording studio ‘The Road Records’ and darkroom in the remote regions of Wales.
The Momentum fund will be an integral facet of further building on the success we’ve had to date as self-releasing artists, enabling us to finance the recording of our 3rd album at a residential recording studio in the Outer Hebrides, who have a selection of bespoke analogue recording equipment which will help elevate our recordings to the next level. We shall be bringing a local recording engineer who has a plethora of experience in working with us, who will help bridge the gap between our prior recordings and the new work we look to record. With the back drop of the mountains, we seek to instil the beauty of our surroundings in the pressing of the record we create.