Sweepsculp - Sweepsculp

May 14, 2021 - Nous’klaer Audio

Eclectic majestic producer upsammy aka Thessa Torsing gave herself a limitation with her side-project Sweepsculp—recording using only an acoustic guitar and drums, and reacting to those sounds in her production. As a complement to her Bend EP, Sweepsculp’s self-titled debut EP features the same loose, organic energy, the same feelings of wild nature, of chaos in between the pattern of order, but with a warmer, minimal, and more leathery timbre. Enclosed are songs that lose themselves in their own grooves, energy flowing through them unbridled, evocative of strange yet satisfying imagery. ‘Plaudable’ opens as a bubbling spring of water, heat rising to the surface in a rolling way, not an explosive way. The softer side of the volcano. It has melted percussion that sounds like old rubber flip flops hitting PVC pipes. ‘Cosmos Bi’ grows in layers like an onion underground. As the song loops, we begin to see new visions while our mouths burn in the springtime. ‘Slucent Edge’ is spiny and runs away from you like a crab on a night beach or a free jazz solo, leaving behind only astonishment. In ‘Facedden’, sounds of scraping guitar strings become squeaky bug feet on the forest floor in micro. ‘Inking’ is an interesting scene where a guitar is the only way to communicate with a sentient computer. 

Cool like dance tracks but glowing like impromptu jam sessions around a campfire, there’s a sense that all of these songs are found objects, things that were discovered accidentally by us, moments glimpsed in space time. The nightclub opens itself back up to the ancient forest. If Bend is metal, Sweepsculp is wood. Both are elemental in the detailed universe that is Thessa Torsing. And I really love dancing in the woods without concrete. ☔