Emptyset’s Subtext label has announced an exceptional music project around “capitalocene” and genetic diversity preservation against climate change. A nice documentary style video is also available, previewing an excerpt of the second track of the album. “Carbon” is made of field recordings from Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a secure seed bank in the Arctic archipelago – an area which is warming faster than anywhere else on earth. Featuring close, supple, cold, and brutal sonics, “Carbon” is the new album of Ecker & Meulyzer aka Stray Dogs, an experimental duo also known for recording their works in a deconsecrated church and the cooling tower of a former power station. The “Carbon” project began in 2017 to meditate on the many challenging questions and contradictions rais...