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carbon

by Sirintip

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    100% Bioplastic LP's ! One of the world's first bioplastic pressings.
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    Single LP / Gatefold Jacket with 12 page booklet insert

    Art direction, Prop design & Artwork by Nitcha Tothong (Fame)

    Independent label Ropeadope has teamed up with Evolution Music UK to press one of the world’s first bioplastic LPs. Evovinyl bioplastic is a plant based high performance natural polymer that will have a profound impact on sustainability in the vinyl pressing process. The first pressing will be Sirintip’s carbon, a project that addresses climate change from a musical perspective, with sustainability built into the process. Carbon was recorded at Manifold Recording Studios, a carbon neutral solar-powered studio on 16 acres of rural land in North Carolina.

    As Sirintip is bringing climate change to the forefront through her music, it is natural that she would be one of the first to embrace this new, sustainable technology. Risk is inherent in creating change, and while the cost is not at parity with PVC, helping to pioneer and work through this change to help it move to the mainstream is a risk she and Ropeadope are willing to take. Fans who support the project will own one of the first of its kind bioplastic LPs, and will be a voice to further the perfection of the process. carbon will use 100% recycled chipboard for the outer jackets.

    Includes unlimited streaming of carbon via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Comes with a 4 panel insert printed with non-toxic vegetable based ink on recycled cardboard. Artwork is designed by Nitcha Tothong

    Includes unlimited streaming of carbon via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
hydrogen 02:43 video
feel a heartbeat through the door every instinct wants to fuse with anything that’s not alone its intense but not abusive did i lose it? lose it all? when the silence comes i fall don’t know how to hear the music throw my head against the wall why on earth would i refuse it? did i lose it? (am i still magnetic?) lose it all? (am i still magnetic?) silence is not my friend when the heat is on all i know is how to pretend i can rule the universe i know, you know look out i am all around you i know, you know always looking for a lover don’t know how to fly solo reach my arms across the ethos is someone there to feed my sorrow? did i use it? (am i still magnetic?) use it all? (am i still magnetic?) silence is not my friend when the heat is on all i know is how to pretend i can rule the universe i know, you know look out i can all around you i know, you know i can rule the universe i know, you know look out i am all around you i know, you know
2.
aqi 03:37
aqi she’s staring at the lit up city on a glass floor and หายใจ (breathes) she’s reminiscing on what future life would feel like (ในอนาคตจะเป็นอย่างไร,ในอนาคต,ในอนาคต) the concrete, past these streets, seek and find (ในอนาคตมันจะเป็นอย่างไร,ในอนาคต,ในอนาคต) must believe, her heartbeat, her goldmine (ในอนาคตมันจะเป็นอย่างไร,ในอนาคต,ในอนาคต) open up the sky at her command she’s coming far away where nothing turns to sand she’s waiting if only she knew, to see what is true, the truth of her fog, her own monologue if only she could, i know that she would, she knows that she can, the world’s in her hand it's hard to see the edge but still she can imagine her ความฝัน (dream) somewhere inside there is a voice that wants to scream out must break free, pave the streets, seek and find (ในอนาคตมันจะเป็นอย่างไร,ในอนาคต,ในอนาคต) must believe, her heartbeat, her goldmine (ในอนาคตมันจะเป็นอย่างไร,ในอนาคต,ในอนาคต) open up the sky at her command she’s coming far away where nothing turns to sand she’s waiting if only she knew, to see what is true, the truth of her fog, her own monologue if only she could, i know that she would, she knows that she can, the world’s in her hand
3.
oasis 03:59
i feel the rush and the lust under my skin is this love, that i’m feeling? this cooling wind from the sea, from a wave, takes my breath away is this love, that i’m feeling? not all rivers flow down to the ocean no need to stay on course when we’re bound to our love an oasis in the desert you’re my castle in the sun a new hope when the rain falls take me back to where we’ve begun i’m a marathon runner but this race has been too long don’t need another venture take me back to where we belong where we belong not all rivers flow down to the ocean no need to stay on course when we’re bound to our love an oasis in the desert you’re my castle in the sun a new hope when the rain falls take me back to where we’ve begun i’m a marathon runner but this race has been too long don’t need another venture take me back to where we belong where we belong where we belong where we belong
4.
hostage 02:59
hostage (mother earth) you held me against my will i never asked for this you pointed a gun at my head wrapped me in stone and drowned me who was i before you who was here before you? oh my heart is broken you’re swimming inside my veins oh my tears are turning red you drag me along in chains look how much of me will remain you strapped your foot around my neck and wonder why i’ve changed i’m bound by the air the promises that you suffocate who was i before you who was here before you? oh my heart is broken you’re swimming inside my veins oh my tears are turning red you drag me along in chains look how much of me will remain i’ve gone down on my knees for you set my ocean on fire i’ve cut my hands for you to share my blood when will you let me go? when will you let me go? when will you let me go? oh my heart is broken you’re swimming inside my veins oh my tears are turning red you drag me along in chains look, how much of me will remain
5.
red eyes 04:05
broke out of my chains and now i’m on the run don’t need another master, i’m out i’m done never wanted to fight but if you dare, i’ll take you out i am not your trophy, i am not your prize i was born to stay at home, uncivilized red eyes no i’m not falling for you no more red eyes no you gotta turn around before i roar how can you not see, what you did to me? why don’t you just let me be free? am i the one you fear cry’s noone can hear why don’t you just leave me as me? locked into the shadows, there i’ll be, the mold between always be behind you, i’m at your mercy, don’t end me need a space to breathe live my way and live in peace you push me out to hunt me make me do your dance but i am not your prize, your prize, your prize red eyes no i’m not falling for you no more red eyes no you gotta turn around before i roar how can you not see, what you did to me? why don’t you just let me be free? am i the one you fear cry’s noone can hear why don’t you just leave me as me? red eyes no i’m not falling for you no more red eyes no you gotta turn around before i roar how can you not see, what you did to me? why don’t you just let me be free? am i the one you fear cry’s noone can hear why don’t you just leave me as me?
6.
1.5 02:02
7.
forcibly drawn into the wild treated with flaws by your design thrown to the wolves like innocent jewels veins are thicker than red wine owl of earth, you should resign cursed by your love i’m stolen and bruised tired of you wasting my reserve you transform my state automate every tool abuse induced black smoke in my lungs my soul is abandoned from the grave you sold my soul nothing left to save at all oh black hole unspoken gold let me out of your control down to the depths of earth for you warmer conditions low on fuel exhausted my youth it's all been used suddenly there is no reply caught up without an alibi you made your choice you lit the fire tired of you wasting my reserve you transform my state automate every tool abuse induced black smoke in my lungs my soul is abandoned from the grave you sold my soul nothing left to save at all oh black hole unspoken gold let me out of your control
8.
broken glass, childroom’s a mess again shattered mirror reflecting all that’s down the drain swept you off your feet, left you on the ground do you see it now? sun is burnin’, there’s no wind to cool you down noone’s turnin’, the air is still and makes no sound can’t have you, you trapped me deep inside do you see it now? i cannot escape it i just can’t escape it i cannot escape, it’s too late i cannot escape it i just can’t escape it i cannot escape, it’s checkmate trapped because of you, it’s because i (breathe you) trapped because of you, it’s because i need you, we’ve always the perfect storm fought the feeling, forgot what i was fighting for can’t live with or without you by my side i can see it now i cannot escape it i just can’t escape it i cannot escape, it’s too late i cannot escape it i just can’t escape it i cannot escape, it’s checkmate trapped because of you, it’s because i (breathe you) trapped because of you, it’s because i (breathe you) trapped because of you, it’s because i (breathe you) trapped because of you, it’s because i i cannot escape it i just can’t escape it i cannot escape, it’s too late i cannot escape it i just can’t escape it i cannot escape, it’s checkmate i cannot escape it i just can’t escape it i cannot escape, it’s too late i cannot escape it i just can’t escape it i cannot escape, it’s checkmate
9.
โบยบิน โบยบิน โบยบิน โบยบิน (flying) time is running out, they’ll soon know my beak is shut and both my wings are tied not by nature, sketched out by luck behind my eyes, there’s only air that’s left inside watch them take off, weeping willow to where i’ve only ventured in my dreams will i ever get to fly away across the ocean where i know i still belong what if they see through me? i’ll fall nowhere to go so when can i feel my own wings on a cloud in the pink moonlight where i’m not a plastic bird? what if i forget all my moves? i’m glued down to the ground, can’t make a sound they’ve already seen my parade but my reflection shows me losing every game what if they see through me? i’ll fall nowhere to go so when can i feel my own wings on a cloud in the pink moonlight where i’m not a plastic bird?
10.
11.
earth moment 04:18
you can tell me i’m lost that it’s a hopeless cause you can tell me, there’s no use that i should move on with my life but i refuse, to look the other way i know too much, to turn blind and say it’s all ok, there’s more we need to do than pray you might, think that, we can’t make a dent but every step we take will leave a trace we live, and we learn now it’s our turn we can run, but we can’t hide i’m afraid, to fall asleep again i’m awake to fight another day we’re running out of time to play let those birds fly they don’t want to die let the deers roam let our egos go but i refuse, to look the other way i know too much, to turn blind and say it’s all ok, there’s more we need to do than pray better use my voice, can’t be silent
12.
it's alright 03:33
babe, sometimes things get, get in the way before you break, always remember how to play before the pressure takes it all away try to do what’s right you don’t need to try and fight we can’t always win it all we can’t and won’t, no no no sometimes we are wrong but that’s ok, no need to hold it on we move on keep high and stand tall no need to do it, do it all cause it’s alright follow the arrow deep in your marrow tear the walls cause it’s alright babe, is it hard to stay right here where you are? holding onto memories won’t heal all your scars tell me what you need but then just don’t forget to breathe try to do what’s right you don’t need to try and fight we can’t always win it all we can’t and won’t, no no no sometimes we are wrong but that’s ok, no need to hold it on we move on keep high and stand tall no need to do it, do it all cause it’s alright follow the arrow deep in your marrow tear the walls cause it’s alright keep high and stand tall no need to do it, do it all cause it’s alright follow the arrow deep in your marrow tear the walls cause it’s alright
13.
siri 01:58
i’m built on one and zero was asked to be your hero can you release space? there's too much digital waste my memory is full been crying like a wolf emotionally at capacity i’m not your digital waste must free up space must free up space need an upgrade need an upgrade must free up space must free up space i need an update

about

Ropeadope has teamed up with Evolution Music UK to press one of the world’s first bioplastic LPs. Evovinyl bioplastic is a plant based high performance natural polymer that will have a profound impact on sustainability in the vinyl pressing process. The first pressing will be Sirintip’s carbon, a project that addresses climate change from a musical perspective, with sustainability built into the process. Carbon was recorded at Manifold Recording Studios, a carbon neutral solar-powered studio on 16 acres of rural land in North Carolina.


As Sirintip is bringing climate change to the forefront through her music, it is natural that she would be one of the first to embrace this new, sustainable technology. Risk is inherent in creating change, and while the cost is not at parity with PVC, helping to pioneer and work through this change to help it move to the mainstream is a risk she and Ropeadope are willing to take. Fans who support the project will own one of the first of its kind bioplastic LPs, and will be a voice to further the perfection of the process. carbon will use 100% recycled chipboard for the outer jackets.


‘Business as usual will not create the change we need to address the environmental issues facing humanity. This simply MUST be done. We call you to join us on the journey’ (Louis Marks, Ropeadope)
About Evolution Music UK

Evolution Music is bringing the music industry and other businesses together to accelerate the music industry’s shift to more sustainable, environmentally and socially responsible practices. Their initial flagship product is the bioplastic LP – available from the second half of 2022 – using circular economy principles to replace the harmful production and use of single use plastics and minimise waste in the music industry. We make it easy for labels and artists to make the change by producing bioplastic LPs (instead of PVC) using the record pressing plants’ existing machinery and production processes.
About Manifold Recording

Manifold Recording was built by Michael & Amy Tiemann to offer artists large-scale recording spaces built with advanced materials to support organic, acoustic-oriented production models. Set on 16 acres of rural land, the studio was organically designed from the center out, reflecting the process of nature. Carbon neutrality was planned from the start, as they helped build a solar double cropping system that not only generates 4x the power requirements of the studio, but which also supports agricultural production between and under the solar panels. Serendipitously, the hexagonal symmetries expressed throughout the studio resonated perfectly with the atomic number of carbon, 6.
About carbon

After three years of climate research and patient self-discovery, Bangkok-born singer, producer and multi-modal artist Sirintip issues her sophomore release, carbon. Weary from headlines that preach and scold, the internationally acclaimed composer of Thai Swedish descent sought a new method of engagement. carbon, released on October 14, 2022 via Ropeadope, presents thirteen tracks of original music as an invitational gesture, an appeal for a new kind of conversation around climate action.

Music heavily informed by research often features a mathematical expression as a vessel for artists to develop patterned ideas and improvise. But carbon presents a suite of music through which science elevates Sirintip’s lyrical musicianship. Her compositions breathe. With purpose, they intensify. Her ability to communicate through shifting mood chambers and crystalline soundscapes transports listeners to points of sensory and emotion, at once vast and intimate.


“I didn’t want the project to be preaching, ‘You’re not good enough,’” says the Manhattan based artist. “That’s what the news does. So I thought, ‘What if I don’t put the message in the lyrics? What if I compose it into the music? Then maybe people — including me — might become more curious to learn new ways for us to interact with our planet.’”

carbon would emerge as ambitious and interdisciplinary, bonding visual art and moving image, as well as audio-visual installation. For the music video release of “plastic bird,” Sirintip received funding from New York Foundation for the Arts, in addition to project support she’s received from Swedish Arts Council, STIM, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. (This will be premiered later this month through Huffington Post) Borrowing from the tradition of hip hop, the record features a number of found instruments, including plastic water jugs transformed into percussion, data sonification integrate statistics into blossoming, melodious gestures pulling NASA data from 1880 through 2012, processed recordings from backyard wildlife, even sand. “I’ve always been interested in nature and science,” says the 2015 Monk Competition finalist, who ultimately chose to pursue music over neurosurgery. “I think I’ve been working on this project subconsciously for a very long time.”
Additional information on sustainability

In addition to touring Carbon in what she hopes to be a sustainable, minimally harmful way, Sirintip will focus her next couple of years on large-scale installation pieces and narrative compositions that explore the carbon clock, and microorganisms, respectively, among other conceptual works; she hopes to continue collaborating with scientists directly, as she did on her research trip across the North Pacific. Over the next seven years, she plans to shift her entire creative process into a sustainable practice; this shift includes scheduling more solar-powered performances similar to her June 2022 appearance at Inwood Hill Park NYC, recording at solar-powered studios, printing bioplastic vinyls, and reducing her touring carbon footprint through efficient booking strategies. Sirintip hopes to engage more researchers on her artist path toward becoming more climate change-conscious: “I want to make sure I’m doing everything I can, through art, to make a change.” She’s currently endorsed by Geneverse (solar-powered batteries), Moog Synthesizers, Focusrite, Empire Ears, EarthQuaker Devices, TC Helicon, and Ableton.

Sirintip bio

Thai-Swedish multimodal artist, singer, and producer Sirintip creates works that center climate action through empathy and meaningful connections. She has issued three critically-acclaimed releases, Carbon (Ropeadope), The Lost World (GroundUP) and Tribus (GroundUP); collaborated on 19 releases such as Bill Laurance of Snarky Puppy; and produced albums for artists like actor Melanie Smith (Seinfeld). Commissioned pieces include orchestral arrangements of “I’ll Be There” and “A Case of You” for the Swedish Radio and Malmo Symphony Orchestras, respectively; and interpretations for both Nobel Chemistry Prize and Nobel Prize for Peace; and her film score for Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1925 feature “Lost World” premiered in 2022 through Alamo Drafthouse. Commercial credits include vocal recordings for the Alzheimer’s Association, and AT&T Discovery District. She has appeared at international festivals and major venues across the world, alongside Benny Andersson (ABBA), Snarky Puppy, and countless diverse acts. She’s a Thelonious Monk International Competition finalist.

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released October 14, 2022

Album recording:
produced by: sirintip phasuk & nicolas hard
mixed by: nicolas hard
engineered by: nicolas hard
mastered by: g&j audio

assistant engineer: michael tiemann
additional engineers: sirintip phasuk, michael league, chris mcqueen, alex hahn, nolan byrd, daniel migdal, joakim hultqvist
production coordinator: chris davis
production assistant: arthur davis

vocal arrangements by: sirintip phasuk
strings arranged for "hostage" by: matthew peterson
recorded at: manifold recording, pittsboro, nc august 2021 (carbon neutral)
mixed at: rabbit hole studios, spain (solar powered)

Artwork:
photography by: ashira boonchoo
retouched by: richard saralertsophon
artwork by: nitcha tothong
make up by: deborah altizio
photographed at: yindee studio

01 hydrogen
sirintip - vocals, vocal effects, synth bass programming
kengchakaj kengkarnka - buchla 200 series modular system, moog one, moog matriarch, piano
nic hard - electric guitar, drum programming
chris mcqueen - moollon guitar
nolan byrd - drums, synth bass programming

02 aqi
sirintip - vocals, vocal effects, vocoder, percussion programming
kengchakaj kengkarnka - moog one, moog matriarch, korg minilogue, rhodes, piano, hammond b-3 organ
chris mcqueen - moollon guitar
michael league - electric bass
nolan byrd - drums, marimba
mahasarakham university - thai electric guitar, morlam vocals, thai percussion

03 oasis
sirintip - vocals, vocal effects, sand
kengchakaj kengkarnka - moog one, piano
nolan byrd - drums, synth bass programming, thai percussion programming

04 hostage
sirintip - vocals, vocal effects, vocoder
kengchakaj kengkarnka - piano
nolan byrd - synth bass programming
nic hard - cube & drum programming
daniel migdal - violin i, violin ii, viola
north carolina crickets - ambient vocal performance
matthew peterson - string arrangement

05 red eyes
sirintip - vocals, vocal effects, thai guitar programming
kengchakaj kengkarnka - moog one, moog matriarch, piano
chris mcqueen -moollon guitar
nic hard - synth bass programming, drum programming
nolan byrd - drums, plastic water jugs, metal trash can, thai percussion programming

06 1.5
sirintip - vocals, vocal effects

07 unspoken gold
sirintip - vocals, vocal effects, drill, deforestation & industrial programming, marimba
owen broder - barytone saxophone
michael league - minimoog model d
bangkok frogs - ambient vocal performance
kengchakaj kengkarnka - buchla 200 series modular system, moog matriarch, piano, marimba
nolan byrd - drums
nic hard - deforestation & industrial programming

08 i cannot escape
sirintip - vocals, vocal effects
kengchakaj kengkarnka - moog one, piano, hammond b-3 organ
michael league - electric bass
nolan byrd - drums
chris mcqueen - moollon guitar

09 plastic bird
sirintip - vocals, vocal effects, vocoder, plastic trash percussion programming
alex hahn - flute
kengchakaj kengkarnka - moog one, piano
michael league - electric bass
nolan byrd - drums, plastic water jugs
nic hard - vocal scrubbing

10 stranger of the sea
sirintip - vocals, vocal effects, programming
nolan byrd - programming

11 earth moment
sirintip - vocals, vocal effects
kengchakaj kengkarnka - piano

12 it's alright
sirintip - vocals, vocal effects, plastic trash percussion programming
kengchakaj kengkarnka - moog one, piano, hammond b-3 organ
michael league - eletric bass
nolan byrd - drums, plastic trash percussion programming

13 siri
sirintip - vocals, vocal effects, programming
nolan byrd - programming
nic hard - drum programming

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Sirintip New York, New York

Bangkok-born Swedish-Thai artist Sirintip is an experimental trilingual singer and composer in both the jazz and pop worlds. Her unique use of effect pedals with her voice has brought her around the world performing with Snarky Puppy, Benny Andersson (ABBA), as a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Competition, and opening for Wayne Shorter at the Polar Music Prize. ... more

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