- Digital
Noémi Büchi
I was almost there
-OUS
- Cat No: OUS058A
- Release: 2025-11-17
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"I was almost there" is the first single from Noémi Büchi's forthcoming album "Exuvie", scheduled for release on February 27, 2026 via -ous.
"I am interested in the quiet resonance of what is no longer, yet still vibrates." — Noémi Büchi
The tension between matter and memory is what Noémi Büchi was interested in when she wrote and recorded her third album, titled 'Exuvie'. Derived from the latin word exuviae, meaning 'what has been shed', exuviae refer to the empty skin or shell left behind after a metamorphosis. This casting of skin leaves behind a trace of a body that has changed form — what remains is a fragile imprint of an earlier self, suspended between absence and renewal. What remains after a transition is a state where the past, the now and the promise of a future overlap and create a space moulded by traces and promises.
The skin, carrier of the physical-emotional body, follows another timeline than the mind: late to react, late to protect, late to feel. Where thoughts are in constant motion, the body lingers, absorbs, remembers and holds. Exuvie is about the fragile processes of transformation, and the slower rhythms of the body. The album is an exploration of musical and non-musical memories hidden within ourselves, inscribed somewhere in and under our skin.
Inspired by the dislocated bodies of Francis Bacon, the strange hunger of intimacy, and the texture of silence, Exuvie unfolds like a painting — opening spaces of memory and transformation. Büchi combines echoes of video game soundtracks, anime music, hip hop, and late Romanticism. Developing her musical language, that combines orchestral elements with electroacoustic spectral layerings, further, Büchi integrates elements from popular music and emphasises unpretentious rhythmical repetitions. These fragments, shifting between the personal and the cultural, form an architecture of remembrance, a fragile skin suspended between temporalities.
Noémi Büchi is a Swiss/French composer and sound artist exploring the potential of cross-genre musical structures. Her music is defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms and electroacoustic-orchestral abstraction. She contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption and playfully emphasizes irregularities, creating an expansive listening experience marked by detail and elevation. Her compositions juxtapose multi-layered analog synth textures, crystal-clear tones, and brutalistic noises, evolving through structures that often recall pop song forms. Driven by an inner orchestra of countless voices, her music merges complexity and accessibility, sculpting immersive sound architectures that invite reflection on impermanence and the enduring power of sound.
"I am interested in the quiet resonance of what is no longer, yet still vibrates." — Noémi Büchi
The tension between matter and memory is what Noémi Büchi was interested in when she wrote and recorded her third album, titled 'Exuvie'. Derived from the latin word exuviae, meaning 'what has been shed', exuviae refer to the empty skin or shell left behind after a metamorphosis. This casting of skin leaves behind a trace of a body that has changed form — what remains is a fragile imprint of an earlier self, suspended between absence and renewal. What remains after a transition is a state where the past, the now and the promise of a future overlap and create a space moulded by traces and promises.
The skin, carrier of the physical-emotional body, follows another timeline than the mind: late to react, late to protect, late to feel. Where thoughts are in constant motion, the body lingers, absorbs, remembers and holds. Exuvie is about the fragile processes of transformation, and the slower rhythms of the body. The album is an exploration of musical and non-musical memories hidden within ourselves, inscribed somewhere in and under our skin.
Inspired by the dislocated bodies of Francis Bacon, the strange hunger of intimacy, and the texture of silence, Exuvie unfolds like a painting — opening spaces of memory and transformation. Büchi combines echoes of video game soundtracks, anime music, hip hop, and late Romanticism. Developing her musical language, that combines orchestral elements with electroacoustic spectral layerings, further, Büchi integrates elements from popular music and emphasises unpretentious rhythmical repetitions. These fragments, shifting between the personal and the cultural, form an architecture of remembrance, a fragile skin suspended between temporalities.
Noémi Büchi is a Swiss/French composer and sound artist exploring the potential of cross-genre musical structures. Her music is defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms and electroacoustic-orchestral abstraction. She contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption and playfully emphasizes irregularities, creating an expansive listening experience marked by detail and elevation. Her compositions juxtapose multi-layered analog synth textures, crystal-clear tones, and brutalistic noises, evolving through structures that often recall pop song forms. Driven by an inner orchestra of countless voices, her music merges complexity and accessibility, sculpting immersive sound architectures that invite reflection on impermanence and the enduring power of sound.
