Vanessa Amara - café LIFE (2025)

Posh Isolation is proud to present ”cafe LIFE”, the new album by Vanessa Amara.

A culmination of the Danish duo’s exploration of chamber pop sensibility and modern textural liquidation. Always moving, parsley farcical, and immensely unique, Vanessa Amara delivers an incomparable divagation into contemporary music productions.

At some point last year my phone stopped charging. Looking it up, I figured it could be an accumulation of lint gathered in the USB-port blocking the connection. I removed the lint and the phone could charge again. This felt like a clear metaphor for, as well as a reminder of, the importance of reproductive work in life and in love. I kept the note “The Lint of Our Love” as a promising phrase to be sung. A while later, we were working on a chord progression, reorganised from a composition for pipe organ by Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen. I was looking for vocals to accompany the track, when I found this faint rhythm bleeding through an almost studio acapella of an Akon song. When Sebastián heard it, he started dancing, like making these floor sweeping motions along with the filtered remains of the beat and it very elegantly drew forth lines between the lint of our love and closing down the café for the day.

Thanks to the music of Joan Armatrading for turning a bunch of diss tracks into a bunch of love songs. We hope the music, the words and the feeling can work as a gesture towards a shared experience of living a life.