available as CD and Download

Release: 18.02.2026

This album is a collection of compositions, texts, and improvisations all relating to one core theme: Distance. Migration, the passage of time, physical proximity and distance, longing, dissociation, the Covid pandemic, creative and emotional ‘cocooning’, rest, departure, return, space, and the precariousness of feminist achievements in a patriarchal world. The collaborative pieces were developed after in-depth conversations on both shared and personal interpretations of ‘distance’. Thank you to Shabnam, María, and Lukas for sharing your thoughts, creativity, and music with me. Thank you to GEMA for funding the composition process and recording. Thank you for listening.

1 Four Scenes of Absence [06:03]
2 Cocoon (feat. Shabnam Parvaresh) [07:41]
3 Nineteen [05:27]
4 Growing Pains [poem] [02:19]
5 Growing Pains [impro] (feat. María Portugal) [06:43]
6 Agoraphobia (feat. Lukas Schwegmann) [05:06]
7 I Grow [05:13]

Ula Martyn-Ellis – guitars & voice
Shabnam Parvaresh – bass clarinet [track 2]
María Portugal – drums [track 5]
Lukas Schwegmann – all instruments, programming, and producing [track 6]

Recorded by Steffen Lütke at Fattoria Musica on 18 & 19.12.2022
And by Marcus Zilz at HI&MOINSEN on 29.11.2022
Mixed by Steffen Lütke at Studio Mosaik
Mastered by Eddie Nünning at SoundResort
Cover Artwork by Shabnam Parvaresh
Layout & Design by Lea-Melina Berger