fromheretillnow presents Versa/Face, marking the renewed collaboration between Zurich-based musicians Luc Häfliger (Gotgha) and Piero Mirio Scherer. Their creative exchange first took shape during several intense years in Zurich’s underground scene. After a period of individual work, the two artists reunite with a release that brings their musical dialogue back into focus, alongside the concert format Doxa Shroti.
The foundation of this project was set on a tour in Indonesia and Taiwan. A journey during which a fusion of perspectives emerged, where practices, actions, and everyday decisions met, and where, for brief moments, their minds melted together. Some of that remains. Afterwards, the artists drifted apart for a bit, still close, yet working on their own sounds. However, these thoughts and moments stuck and shaped this release. In this way, the individual tracks find each other and merge the project into a single whole.
Where Gotgha works with building moments, rooms, out of memories, concepts, and sounds, with self-recorded field recordings, elements of noise, and playing the zither, Mirio explores textures, materiality, and dialogues between them. For him, the situative is even more central; he moves away from referentiality and theory, towards improvisation. Presenting differently, still, all tracks find themselves being iterations of a similar score, being systems of sounds. While in Piero’s practice, the origin is the whole and the reactions and movements within, in Gotgha’s work, it is the single thing, a body in its dialogue with and within a system of elements and the space.
Versa/Face, ultimately, is a collaborative release of exploration, aleatorically steered intuition, and perception. Getting pulled along by their sounds, Mirio and Gotgha are digging forward, working their way ahead, trying things, taking risks, thinking, pondering, feeling their way forward.
Pieces 1–3 are based on microphone recordings of various live takes, collages from multiple performances, tape loops, no-input mixing, CV or spatial feedback, together with their respective spatial conditions. These spatial conditions are crucial because dialogue and situatedness are more important than any reference; openness and rawness, and the vulnerability tied to them, are central.
Tracks 4–6 originate from “Risking Repetition. Aestethics of Survival“. A polyphonic/ collaborative format initiated by Joseph Baan. It explored aesthetic strategies for living with the trauma of sexualized violence. This also raised the question of how or whether the body I live in remains alive after such experiences, or whether I am at the same time undead and share life with others from a liminal place. With the music, Gotgha finds an almost spiritual practice that exceeds verbal language and uses it to shape and paint with sound in a highly physical and anti-compositional manner.
Text: Elia Brülhart
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released December 4, 2025
Mastering: Gaspard Emma Hers
Cover Photography: Tim Häsler
Artwork (Inlay) Tristan Amor Rabit
Graphic Design: Marc Jauss
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