Catalog Number: SUB057 Color: Black Format: LP UPC: 5060928190455 Basak Gunak is a Istanbul-born, Berlin-based sound artist and composer, also internationally known as Ah! Kosmos in the field of electronic music. Her work includes sound art, performance, sound installation, composition for theater and contemporary dance. On her solo album Rewilding, Basak Gunak has worked with the themes of (auto-)rewilding, foraging and decay, while also incorporating sounds she has gathered from her sound art and sound installations. Rewilding embodies the sounds of whistles, whispers, a deconstruction of a South-Eastern Anatolian folk song and the instruments; organ, bass clarinet, halldrophone, Buchla 100 and a broken piano. As foraging does not require territorial exclusivity, Basak Gunak weaves together three songs from her sound installations presented in 2020 and 2023. While reimaging whispers, whistles, murmurs and sine waves as the auto-rewilders of the soundscape of the album, Gunak creates a soft and porous medium that later disappears into the swamp. Sometimes these whistles take the form of a distant sound of a murmur that tends to disappear and then reaches to the surface again and overflows into audibility.