First album created by a baby in the womb to be released in April

03 February 2021, 12:50 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

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Sacred Bones have announced the release of Luca Yupanqui's debut album Sounds of the Unborn, which is the first album to be created by a baby in the womb.

Luca Yupanqui is the child of Psychic Ills bassist Elizabeth Hart and Lee Scratch Perry collaborator Iván Diaz Mathé, and is the first toddler to record an album while still in the womb.

Yupanqui's parents used biosonic MIDI technology to translate their unborn child's movements in the womb to sound.

The sounds were captured through joint meditation sessions with the MIDI devices hooked up to Hart's stomach, with the vibrations transcribed through Mathé's synths.

Having completed five hour-long meditation sessions, Hart and Mathé began to see the shape of an album, and formed the recordings with as little interference as possible.

Hart and Mathé mixed the album in 2020, with an infant Yupanqui joining her parents in the studio as they worked on the album.

The first taster of the album is a track called "V4.3 pt. 2". Mathé says of the video, "We did some Super 8 footage during the recording sessions and later we teamed up with artist Victoria Keddie because we love her approach an aesthetic. She processed the film with analog gear and created a visual trip that summarises what we felt while creating this album."