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Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek  “Together”

“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

The Summer Day - Mary Oliver


“Together” is the third collaborative album by Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek, following 2020's “Elephant” and 2017's “Buy Corals Online”. The album was originally conceived in response to a commission by the Danish documentary festival CPH:Dox to create an alternate soundtrack to Chris Marker’s sublime documentary travelogue from 1983, “Sans Soleil”. Lo-fi vignettes of guitar and field recordings are presented alongside electroacoustic experiments, as enchanting invitations to rhythmical synthetic worlds, with each finding poise about Marker's meditation on the nature of human memory. With acoustic instruments treated digitally and instrumental performances reinterpreted, “Together” travels the lush path of their earlier works to new destinations.

The album unfolds like a series of postcards, its colours bleached by the sun and its stories told with blurry fragments. Behind the details, the ruling stories are seamlessly enjoyed if not intimately entwined. On bike in the city, swimming in the harbour, birch trees, kissing, first teenage acid trip, experiencing the oneness of life in a messy adolescent apartment. Stargazing eye-to-eye, every face seems familiar. Colourful blankets, being broke, feeling joyous, sandals, a fountain, flowers. Preteens high on soda with joy-blushed skin. Like Marker, Together travels in time to revisit lost emotions.

The inner cosmology of Valentin & Rahbek's work is that of naturalistic reportage just gently sprayed by the crashing tide of psychedelic curiosity. “Together” is about finding the miraculous in the ordinary. It's about trying to find composure in a world where suffering and ecstasy live as next door neighbours. It's about how we are dying even as we tremble with as much life as we've ever felt.

Valentin's long wake of solo works and collaborations include his productions with Yung Lean (as Jonatan Leandoer127) for the album “Nectar”, as well as their joint commission for Sweden's Cullberg Ballet, and most recently includes last year's exquisite double EP “0011001/ 0011000” for Posh Isolation. For more than a decade, Rahbek has been making electronic music as Croatian Amor and a wealth of other monikers. He has been running Posh Isolation with Christian Stadsgaard since 2009.

The cover features the work of Copenhagen-based photographer Halfdan Venlov, portraying the city's youth in a cemetery in central Copenhagen, and forms part of his ongoing series “Under Heaven”. The sunny meeting against unkept headstones and weathered memorials is an evocative companion to the blissful details “Together” encloses.

“Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

Posh Isolation 272

Together

Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek - Together

AufWind (Anyma,Neutron;CircuitR&VoiceLoops)

original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E935Od_J4fw

Physically Sick

My Sorrow Is Luminous

Whities 011 - Lanark Artefax
Release date - 9th June 2017
Buy - http://www.whiti.es/

A1 - Flickering Debris
A2 - Touch Absence
B1 - Hyphen To Splice
B2 - Voices Near The Hypocentre

Designed by Alex McCullough. Comic Panel by Joseph P Kelly.
Mastered by Matt Colton

 Distributed by Rush Hour

Thanks to Calum, Alex, Joseph, Matt, Olivia and Oskar!

011-Lanark Artefax: Flickering Debris/Touch Absence/Hyphen To Splice/Voices Near The Hypocentre

For this compilation, original recordings and stems of “The Idealist”, a song on Soho Rezanejad’s recent full-length album Six Archetypes, were sent to friends and collaborators. What resulted are 25 wildly variant remixes by a community of artists.

The Idealist Compilation:
https://siliconerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-idealist-compilation

The Idealist music video:
https://youtu.be/A8bn3zPrzrs

“The Idealist Compilation” by Various Artists was mastered by Miccel Mohr and released on Silicone Records, 2018.

The Idealist Compilation

SKY H1 & Soho Rezanejad - The Idealist

Buy / Listen: www.janushoved.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-vague

Tettix Hexer - Visible Winds Of Spring

Their Arms Surround Me Like Chains Made of Velvet (Angelo Harmsworth's and Dis Fig's Reworks)

J. Carter, 'One Another’s Geography (Dis Fig Terminal D Remix)' (2020). Courtesy VAKNAR, Berlin.

Teresa Winter - Emptiness Is Also An Excess [RAVE031]

Exitloop

Island of The Hungry Ghosts
A film by Gabrielle Brady 
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Aaron Cupples, with field recordings by Leo Dolgan 

Format: Deluxe Vinyl edition with booklet & full stream of the film + download / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 110
Release Date: 29 January 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/iothg

Island of the Hungry Ghosts is a hybrid documentary that moves between the natural, human and spiritual worlds. Located off the coast of Indonesia, the Australian territory of Christmas Island is inhabited by migratory crabs travelling in their millions from the jungle towards the ocean, in a movement that has been provoked by the full moon for hundreds of thousands of years. Poh Lin Lee is a trauma therapist who lives with her family in this seemingly idyllic paradise. Every day, she talks with the asylum seekers held indefinitely in a high-security detention centre hidden in the island’s core, attempting to support them in a situation that is as unbearable as its outcome is uncertain. As Poh Lin and her family explore the island’s beautiful yet threatening landscape, the local islanders carry out their “hungry ghost” rituals for the spirits of those who died on the island without a burial. They make offerings to appease the lost souls who are said to be wandering the jungles at night looking for home.

This album presents the original score Aaron Cupples created for the film. Rich in texture and harmonics, the music is characterised by the bespoke instruments and recording techniques employed in its creation. The soundtrack also features sound recordist Leo Dolgan’s vivid field recordings. All captured on Christmas Island, the four pieces recall insect choruses, strange and ominous bird calls, erupting blowholes, fire, ocean, and Buddhist prayers for the dead.

“Drawing on discussions with director Gabrielle Brady, I began to perceive the island itself as the protagonist, with its own ancient rhythms and cycles set against the transitory human stories it endures. It was my intention to give voice to the island through the score. Imagining what this might sound like, emanating from deep within the landscape, I settled on a handmade long-string instrument. This single 13-foot long wire was tuned, bowed, and electromagnetically oscillated to create slowly evolving textures and deep layers of resonance.

From this foundation, the score introduces rhythm inspired by traditional Chinese festival drumming and chanting of Buddhist nuns recorded on Christmas Island by sound recordist Leo Dolgan. Working closely with him, the score is intentionally kept dark in timbre to allow a merging with the intricate nature recordings, which often play simultaneously with the score.

As the film’s narrative unfolds, harmonic movement and finally melody emerge, bringing a theme to the human stories. Their life rhythms and cycles interwoven with those of the island.” – Aaron Cupples

The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring design by N MRE 08. Field recordings by Leo Dolgan.

Island of The Hungry Ghosts (OST)

Aaron Cupples - Sand Return (PAN 110)

AQNB has been writing across visual art, music & critical thinking since 2012.

J. Carter, 'One Another’s Geography (Dis Fig Terminal D Remix)' (2020). Courtesy VAKNAR, Berlin.

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