Walca is an independent electronic/experimental music duo from Stockholm, Sweden, that combines electronic and acoustic instruments with sampling techniques to create soulful sonic landscapes.

The duo formed in 2017 through their mutual love for Bon Iver's album "22, A Million", and the innovative works of Nils Frahm, Sigur Rós, Jon Hopkins and latter day Thom Yorke (of Radiohead) further encouraged Furrer & Pinna to move their goalposts towards what, three years later, became ”Synapses”. ⁣

In 2020 the band created "Compromised Recordings" a record label that aims to help independent acts to produce and release music. "We want to create a local community of artists that share our love for music.

In cahoots with Argentina born guitarist Federico Pinna, Furrer has turned their fascination for sound design and audio landscapes into their debut album, ”Synapses”. ⁣
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Almost entirely instrumental, the more you listen to it the songs segue into an eternal space where melody and sonic tranquility are entwined. ⁣
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Pinna’s guitar playing may bring the summer sketches of The Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly to mind, the scope of ideas update sonic relatives like the progressive balearica of A Mountain of One or fellow Swedish travellers Studio. But without sounding like any of them. ⁣
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There’s a crispy freshness to WALCA that couldn’t have been achieved in any other time than right now. ⁣
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Until that moment Furrer had spent most of the last decade on the road as a successful international DJ. ⁣
WALCA and ”Synapses” is the escape route, a musical sanctuary of post-club fatigue. ⁣
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”Synapses” may have (some of) its roots in modern electronic music but its sound landscapes offer – for artist and listener alike – ⁣
a brand new start: music for a slow day on a cosmic shore. ⁣
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”I sincerely wish we could get people to appreciate instrumental music again. It may not be easy but it would be lovely, wouldn’t it?”, says Furrer. ⁣
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As a DJ and artist-producer (as Cazzette) Furrer was a vital part of the previous decades ’digital maximalism’ – this is its sonic come down, a new spiritual beginning. ⁣
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Equal parts hypnotic and serene but more than anything ”Synapses” is the warm and embracing – dare one say ambient? - sound of clouds passing by and slowly shifting shapes right before our eyes. ⁣
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