Badlands | |
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Background information | |
Origin | Stockholm, Sweden |
Genres | New Wave IDM Folk Electronica Post punk Experimental Shoegaze Trip hop |
Years active | 2011 - present |
Labels | Temporary Secretary, RITE |
Members | Catharina Jaunviksna |
Website | badlands |
Badlands is the musical solo name used by producer, composer, documentarist and sound designer Catharina Jaunviksna. With a wide inspirational range from post punk to warehouse techno-like ambiences, she makes tracks rooted in vintage electronics, gritty pedal work, samples and organic orchestration.
Jaunviksna started to explore analog midi and sampling as a teenager, finding a musical sanctuary in her own electronic compositions.[1] Merging from music to sound design, she attended the sound design program at the reputable National Film School of Denmark 2009–2011,[2] but became the educations first dropout due to her constant longing to make music.[1] She then formed Badlands as a home for her new electroacoustic fusions with vocals and released first Badlands EP Battles Within (2012),[3] followed by album Locus (2016).[4] Acclaimed album Djinn[5][6] was released in 2021[7] as a memorial to her late mother.[8] November 18, 2022 Badlands released her third studio album Call to Love [9] followed by a remix package in 2023, Call to Love: Rendered,[10] with contributing artists such as Ikonika, Art Feynman, Cooly G and Odd Nosdam among others.
The DIY approach is crucial to the distinct Badlands sound, where Jaunviksna exclusively writes, records, produces and mixes all material.[9] She is the founder of the record label, arts platform and production company RITE[11] based in Malmö, Sweden, from where she also makes transboundary arts and documentaries,[12][13] original music and sound designs for film and theater,[14] as well as production, remixes[15] and mix work for other labels and artists.[16]