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Field Journal Companion - Spring 2024

Waltz In A Dream

Haku

Nebel Lang - Why Should I Stay?  

1. (situate)
2. like riddles
3. filled with sound

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Something must have happened in my life.
Pondering questions like riddles, calm and collected.
Wondering where all the hours went,
I once had spent here,
looking at myself a bit puzzled.

Something must have caught my attention,
immersed into a different assignment, perhaps.
This precious time in between,
that is now filled with sound and ripe reality.

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https://nebellang.bandcamp.com/album/why-should-i-stay

Recorded in August 2023

Photography by Patrick Smith
instagram.com/paddyjw

Field recording in "(situate)" by giddster
freesound.org/people/giddster

Text collage

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Available now on Bandcamp

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Why Should I Stay?

filled with sound

Nebel Lang - Why Should I Stay?  - Filled With Sound

Look, I know that many of my opening words often begin with “Today, I am thrilled to share with you a new piece by [so and so]”, but how can I not use the exact same opening line when one of my all-time favourite piano composers reaches out to me to premiere a piece from his newly-announced long-awaited album? This Norwegian musician’s first proper solo studio release appeared on the beloved Sonic Pieces in 2014, which we only later learned to be part of a trilogy of albums. But that doesn’t mean that I spent only the last decade listening to Otto A. Totland – together with his school friend Erik K. Skodvin, the duo has been making beautiful music as Deaf Center, releasing Neon City EP in 2004 on Type. We now see him being backed by Nils Frahm, who not only shares the production credits on his upcoming new album but also releases Exin on his very own Berlin-based LEITER imprint, which he founded with his manager Felix Grimm only a few years ago. This also means that the album was recorded at Frahm’s studio at Funkhaus complex, offering the most beautiful-sounding piano in the hands of the most beautiful-sounding mind. The emotionally charged and sometimes melancholy sound is still present in Totland’s collection of sixteen solo piano pieces, but there is also an upbeat and vibrant tint on a few, including the first single, “Marka”, which follows a classical staccato harmony that I can envision being played on a harpsichord. Yet pieces like “Lys” take me back to that particular flavour of Totland’s sonic tenderness to pull on my heartstrings, allowing me to get lost in those barely audible reverberations of the keys. The piece I’m sharing with you today is called “Rift”, an introspective and sombre reflection in just a few pensive chords.

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Rift

TRACK PREMIERE : Otto A. Totland - Rift

Light, as perceived & portrayed by Hollie Kenniff (aka Hollie Evelyn) in a fine-drawn dialogue between a sparse piano and pastel synth tones. The mood is one of profound calm and serenity, with each new harmony patiently and perfectly pulling us gently along. In the soft glow, we hang on to every word, just to await that next whisper of consciousness we all yearn for… Portrait of Light is the Canadian-American vocalist and composer's ephemeral contribution to our 2024 single series 'Pigments'. 🎧 https://moderna.ampl.ink/light

Portrait of Light

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Hollie Evelyn - Portrait of Light

First single off of the upcoming album NINA. 

Violin by Milo Weil. Vocals by Ellyse Wagener. Produced by Brady Moen for Midwestern Records.

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Nebel Lang - Why Should I Stay? - Filled With Sound

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