Salamanda

Music To Watch Seeds Grow By 008: Salamanda (Basil) continues the series’ second season by inviting Seoul‑based duo Salamanda - Uman Therma (Sala) and Yetsuby (Manda) - to focus their imagination on something disarmingly small: the inner life of a basil plant. Known for their playful, tactile take on ambient and left‑field electronics, Salamanda here work at domestic scale, treating a single basil on a windowsill as both protagonist and score. Seeds 008 is an ambient composition born from quiet observation: days shaped by light and warmth, by the slow beat of photosynthesis and the tiny dramas that unfold on the glass.

The tape traces a full day in the plant’s life. It opens with “introduce my atom which is my favorite one”, a piece that feels like a shy self‑portrait in morning light - gentle tones stretching awake, soft rustles and glows offering a kind of leafy self‑declaration. From there, “to to ki toki tok” settles into an unhurried rhythmic pulse: the drip of water in a sink somewhere, the tick of a clock, micro‑beats that might just as well be the plant’s own slow, cellular metronome. Salamanda’s gift for turning everyday noises into melodic, almost childlike patterns shines through, but everything stays low, close, hushed; this is music at basil‑height, not bird’s‑eye.