T H E M U T E F O R T R E S S
CD / digital / re-released by Ferns Recordings in 2025
Francisco Meirino’s The Mute Fortress plays with the time and space of its sound materials.
He expands, unfolds and unwinds the ghostly voices that circulate in a jigsaw puzzle
of sequences that the mind assembles as it sees fit.
artwork : Pole Ka, CD layout by Francisco Meirino
Live picture - InaGRM
Assembled and mastered at Shiver Mobile, Lausanne, 2023-2024
Featured in Bandcamp’s best experimental albums of April 2024
Originally released as a cassette limited to 60 copies, by Vice de Forme in 2024
Clear cassette with silkscreened picture on a black Japanese envelope
C-40 - Only 60 copies - cassette edition is SOLD OUT
R E V I E W
on Bandcamp’s best experimental music of April 2024 by Marc Masters
Utilising the full stereo space in abstract music can sometimes be more a dazzling gimmick than a substantial move. But for Swiss artist Francisco Meirino, it’s a way to find new ideas and drive his music down different paths. During the two 20-minute sections of The Mute Fortress, Meirino’s sounds veer left to right, up and down, far away and close, but he never uses this spatial motion as a trick. He builds wordless narratives by spreading out noises, rattles, and static as overlapping motifs, with each section echoing what has come before. The Mute Fortress also works as a headphone album to get lost in, but what sticks for me is how far Meirino has journeyed sonically by album’s end.
