Audio-visual artist Raimund Wong (Floating World Pictures) and unboundaried composer Suren Seneviratne (My Panda Shall Fly / Soundway) released their debut album on London's ever experimental Kit Records in June 2025. Interweaving folk, ambient and free improvisation, 𝑨 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 playfully confronts traditional instrumentation (khæn, shakuhachi, voice, taishogoto, cello) with live tape processing and esoteric '90s software. Taking cues from the cross-cultural subversion of Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Geinoh Yamashirogumi's score for "Akira", which augmented large gamelan and choral ensembles with midi computation, 𝑨 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 documents a borderless ensemble spinning dialogues around 'otherness' and the fracturing of cultural and personal identity.
Laying the foundations for free expression, alongside collaborators such as Clive Bell (Jah Wobble), Yoshino Shigihara (Yama Warashi), Maxwell Hallett (The Comet is Coming) and Dominic Kennedy (uh), the pair threaded a narrative between instruments with magnetic tape, dub manipulation and Suren's vast collection of rare / obsolete Macintosh music software from the '90s and early 2000s. Like the radio shows they grew from, these results are optimistic and convivial; a primitive quilt of real and imagined memories, voices and futures, converging to harmonise in humid space.