Full stream of Maarten Vos & Nils Davidse's "Nocturn," taken from their LP on Mylja, out June 25.

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Premiere: Maarten Vos & Nils Davidse - Nocturn

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Between The Leaves', forthcoming on Fluid Audio.

Music: Pepo Galán & Shinji Wakasa
Mastering: Lee Yi (Rottenman Editions)
Print design: Craig Tattersall
Packaging design: Daniel Crossley

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Between The Leaves

Pepo Galán & Shinji Wakasa - Violet Rain

German sound pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius and American composer Tim Story join Erased Tapes as Roedelius & Story with their new album 4 Hands out February 25, 2022.

Pre-save and pre-order it on LP · CD · DL here: https://idol.lnk.to/4hands

4 Hands, an intimate and surreal musical conversation on the piano, is an example of all the warm yet otherworldly beauty that can come from approaching a shared love for a singular instrument from overlapping directions.

Recorded sequentially but on one and the same grand piano, Roedelius laid down a few impromptu piano études in May 2019 whilst visiting his transatlantic friend Story. Tim then learned all their intricate phrasings to add his own parts in the following months. 4 Hands encapsulates rippling minimalistic patterns and delicate, ghostly interactions with surprising harmonic twists. Roedelius’ intuitive and instinctive approach based in improvisation, paired hand in hand with Story’s deliberate distilling of ideas over time, creates two sides of an engaging and thought-provoking conversation that seems to evolve and deepen with each successive listen.

The first single Spirit Clock received its name from Erased Tapes founder Robert Raths, born out of a conversation around timing: “to me this term perfectly describes what’s going on here. There is this invisible bond, this very strong energy between Ach and Tim whenever they make music together that’s still perfectly intact even when they are dimensions apart. This metaphysical intersection of four hands on one and the same mechanical instrument at different times, something so technical yet deeply spiritual, is what fascinates me.”

4 Hands

Spirit Clock

Roedelius & Story - Spirit Clock

I find it absolutely fascinating and, at the same time, truly inspiring thought, that with the untimely passing of Jóhann Jóhannsson in February of 2018 (wow, almost four years ago now!), he still really lives on through the music he made. And not just through his own. And although he left an incredible void, it's not like someone just stepped into his shoes. Instead, a significant number of collaborators and followers that he touched through the years continued to carry his legacy through their own unique sound. His light didn't go out - it just exploded into hundreds of thousands of fragments of many other lights, that are now expanding, forming their gravity, and with time growing larger. And I sort of wonder if that would have happened if it didn't happen the way it already has. That is an absolutely fascinating and truly inspiring thought with which I opened this write-up. In today's track premiere, we have precisely just that. Danish composer Jonas Colstrup worked closely with Jóhann throughout the years, collaborating on scores for the Japanese films Blind Massage (2014) and The Shadow Play (2018). Inspired by the late musician's approach to neo-classical minimalism carried forth with the cinematic elegance, as well as the incredible score by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto and Bryce Dessner for The Revenant (Milan, 2015), and contemporary compositions by William Walton and Arvo Pärt, Colstrup gently sculpts a sonic chrysalis of emotion, in which one wants to wait out all current angst. And if this was a blind listening session, you may have even thought I'd uncovered an unreleased Johannsson track, with those scaling chord progressions and the beautiful arrangements performed by the Budapest Art Orchestra and Theatre of Voices. But to be clear, once again, this is not a copy, made from a mould lifted from Jóhann's work. It is an unmatched gorgeous sculpture, on which you may find his imprint, still warm to the touch.

At The Crest

TRACK PREMIERE : Jonas Colstrup - At The Crest

Old Land

In the old land, 
people perished not from hunger 
but from gorging on lust and liver.

Birds flew backward. Thoughts swarmed
against foreheads. Grass vined up stakes,
sprouted out of the eyes of the impaled.

In the old land, 
the mountains were seasonally flattened,
carved and rolled up like woven prayer mats. 

The sky was shallow and piebald in the fall,
striped and shiny when it rained or snowed,
so splendorous we’d go blind, lose our minds.

In the old land, 
homes were made of honeycomb and straw.
Cars ran on blood, melted pennies, bones.

Streets zigzagged like startled antelopes.
Life and death were simple and whole,
no need for explanation, let alone hope.

In the old land, 
love was meant for strangers and their dogs, 
yowling, licking wounds, sore lymph nodes. 

So we were living our long lives at home,
until we sank and resurfaced in this void.
Different skins, goggled eyes, nowhere to go.

Just to be as we were, we had to destroy
all the wrong distant lands, the many 
scared elsewheres, banging at our doors.
 


Old Land

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Instant Death

This track appears on the Touched Music compilation "Touched 3", which features a staggering 417 artists, including: Digitonal, 808 State, Isan, Olan Mill, Greg Haines and so many more great artists.  It was released by the wonderful Martin Boulton to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. So far he has raised over £50,000 for the charity.

Please listen, share and support this very important cause. You can buy this amazing compilation here: https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-3 Antonymes on Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2cAJxyL

Premiere: Maarten Vos & Nils Davidse - Nocturn

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