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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
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Field recording in "(situate)" by giddster
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Text collage

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Available now on Bandcamp

(̶s̶i̶t̶u̶a̶t̶e̶)̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶r̶t̶ ̶p̶i̶e̶c̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶h̶e̶l̶p̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶l̶i̶s̶t̶e̶n̶e̶r̶ ̶e̶s̶t̶a̶b̶l̶i̶s̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶v̶o̶l̶u̶m̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶e̶n̶t̶i̶r̶e̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶.̶

Why Should I Stay?

filled with sound

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

Produced using a Eurorack Modular Synthesizer system, "Phase Lock" merges ancient, primal rhythms with ethereal, modern textures:

Deep, atmospheric soundscapes (drones) and slowly evolving textures create an immersive sonic environment.

Phase Lock

Original score inspired by the Collin Armstrong novel Polybius

1077NE

I am the lord of these ruins

Now available to preorder: asip.me/asipv020

Taken from Olga Wojciechowska's release on ASIP titled 'Infinite Distances', released November 4th 2019. 

Initially put together in memory of a family member, Olga Wojciechowska’s new album, 'Infinite Distances' is built around a similar-sounding melody that appears across the backbone of the album - the sign of something that won’t let go. Opening with ‘Images Imprisoned Within You’, the beautiful orchestral piece sets the tone for a potentially optimistic journey. But the album, with its changes in direction and varying emotion portrayed throughout the seven tracks, somehow always ends up at the same place. It was a memory Olga couldn’t shake. 

Told through several different approaches, varying from expansive modern-classical pieces, to more experimental and electronic touches in tracks like ‘Memory Of The Pioneers’ and ’Starless Water’; ‘Infinite Distances’ is a personal recollection that spans the emotions surrounding the feelings of loss; the highs, the lows, the polaroid-like happy memories, the ones that you never want to let go, and those that will never quite fade away. 

In contrast to the inspiration behind the album, the artwork from Marco Vannini brings a vivid and subjective aspect to the release, whilst maintaining the idea of fragmented and juxtaposing memories together in one place. 

As a true multi-instrumentalist, Olga has produced as Strië, for Serein with ‘Perpetual Journey’ (2018) and previously as her true name Olga Wojciechowska for the likes of Time Released Sound. Olga has also produced alongside Erik Skodvin on Sonic Pieces, collaborated with Greg Haines and reworked Nathan Fake on Ninja Tune. Olga can also be heard in the more contemporary space with commissions by Oslo Opera House and the Royal Opera House.

ASIPV020 Olga Wojciechowska - Infinite Distances [Digital Masters]

Olga Wojciechowska / Images Imprisoned Within You (ASIPV020)

Pre-Raphaelites: Dreaming of a medieval past
16 May—27 September 2020 (postponed due to Covid-19)

This exhibition takes a fresh look at the Pre-Raphaelites and their obsession with medieval subject matter.

During the 19th century the Pre-Raphaelites created countless images of medieval history and legends. These pictures served as metaphors of an alternative world far away from the challenges of contemporary life.

While British society was rapidly changing during the age of Empire and Industrialisation, pictures of perfect kings, saints and fairy tales offered the imagination a temporary escape, a place to lose oneself and a social ideal to aspire to.

Along with highlights from our own collection, the exhibition will feature loans from art galleries around the UK including Tate and the Ashmolean Museum. Among others, the show will feature works by Edward Burne-Jones, Frank Dicksee, William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Dreaming of a medieval past takes a new well-being approach to exhibition design. We invite you to sit down, relax, and immerse yourself in the sights, sounds and smells around you.

This exhibition is a collaboration with The Bowes Museum.

The Garden Court

Remix of From the Ashes taken from my latest electronica album Earth Follower.  A song about optimism in the midst of dark times.
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