PREMIERE 'Wait wait!' Daniel Ness
Listen to 'Wait wait! by Daniel Ness taken from VA 'changes' out on May 11th via katharsis
The next release on katharsis is the compilation “changes”, the label’s 10th V/A-release, bringing together 30 tracks from artists across the label and beyond. From close collaborators to new encounters, it traces connections between shifting contexts and perspectives, like a body breaking out of its shell, wings still wet and unsteady.
Working from a shared but open theme, the compilation centres around different experiences of change. Not as a single direction, but as something unfolding in parallel, through new chapters, emerging feelings, and forms shifting over time. The contributions reflect this in different ways, including the more uncertain, unresolved, or uncomfortable states that come with it, where things stall, harden, or spill over.
Sonically, the compilation moves across a wide spectrum, with some tracks driven more by physicality and forward motion, while others unfold through more abstract, textural zones. In between, much of the material unfolds in melodic, open states, guided by an experimental sensibility, though at times allowing more direct gestures to take shape.
Despite these differences, a shared sensitivity runs through the release. The tracks feel connected less by genre than by their emotional weight and their willingness to let ideas remain open. A collection of pieces that holds onto movement and instability, structures transforming like a body in constant metamorphosis, continuing to shift even after it seems to settle.
Artwork drawing by Mathilde Gomes