The songs had been written and rehearsed prior to each performance. This adventure led to a debut album, Nanocluster Vol 1, released in 2021 with Stereolab singer/guitarist Laetitia Sadier, German post-rock duo Tarwater, electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss and experimental artist Robin Rimbaud (Scanner). 

Nanocluster Vol 2 further developed this idea with a stark beauty that sounds like a future pop with sleek lines and unexpected great melodies. Built around Thor Harris, the charismatic percussion player from Swans and many other projects, and Cubzoa (Jack Wolter from the band Penelope Isles). 

Key to the process is Colin and Malka’s radio show for Slack City radio, Swimming In Sound with its entertainingly diverse playlist that has widened their horizons. It’s also helped build relationships not only with these collaborators but also musicians like the ambient country masters SUSS, with whom they have produced Nanocluster Vol.3 which will be released in mid February 2025 followed by extended Nanocluster tour in the USA. 

Malka: “Nanocluster is collaboration but in a very specific form. We don’t have rules. It’s a series of creative snapshots.”

Colin: “It’s chemistry & music. Malka & I operate as a team and now we’ve taken it to another level.”

Nanocluster is a 21st century collusion of shared ideas, creating a momentary extended musical family. It’s about musical and personal relationships and the meeting place in the middle. A temporary band of house guests. SUSS just moved, in ideas merged and new soundscapes were forged. This is the place where Immersion happens.