Romeo

Um Um

arkangel where are you tonight in this world
arkangel i just wanna be your girl

i start feeling sick and i kinda wanna cry when
i dont have you here and youre not by my side so
my arkangel just come home with me tonight

arkangel i think that we get along
arkangel someday i might sing you this song 

i start feeling sick and i kinda wanna cry when
i dont have you here and youre not by my side so
my arkangel just come home with me tonight

arkangel

Oddjob (liking the new soundcloud font mix)

Digital liner notes: 
haknam.dk/twp.html

"During the Christmas holidays in 2019, I went on a trip to China with Fei, my life partner. We visited her hometown Beihai and its surroundings in the Guanxi province, as well as Shanghai. I brought a sound recorder with me and did some field recordings during the trip.

I decided I would make a piece based on those field recordings, where the music is built upon the original sound instead of silence. Like painting on top of an existing picture.

These recordings had become precious memories for me and when I shared them with my friends from haknam, they became like little stories. I wanted them to tell those stories back at me with their instruments, in guided semi-improvised sessions. My composition process would be then to rearrange and build upon their sounds in a way I would see fit. And then, finally, each musician would retranscribe the final piece in their own way in a shared graphical score. I wanted it to feel like everything should come from each musician’s own voice.

You cannot tell someone else’s story. When you do, it’s already your own."

Xavier Bonfill
credits
released January 6, 2023

Concept, artistic direction: Xavier Bonfill 
I, II: music by Xavier Bonfill & haknam 
III, IV: music and text by Xavier Bonfill 
IV: translations by haknam

Producer, Mixing: Xavier Bonfill 
Mastering: Mikael Tobias 
Artwork: Antonio Martinez 
Transcription of found texts: Fei Nie

Performed by haknam:

Fei Nie: op1 (I, II), Lyra-8 (II), voice (IV)

Lorenzo Colombo: assorted percussion & found objects (I, II), boppad midi controller (I, II), eurorack modular (II), voice (IV)

Xavier Bonfill: field recordings (I, II, III), eurorack modular (I, II, III, IV), MPC2500 (I), Roland R5 (I), voice (II, III, IV), organelle/Pure-Data (II, III), Yamaha TX802 (II), Yamaha FB-01 (II, III), Lyra-8 (III), Nord Rack 2X (III), The Pipe (III)

Additional musicians:

Anja Nedremo: The Pipe (I, II) 
Kalle Hakosalo: eurorack modular (II)

With support from KODA's cultural funds.

(the.whole.picture)

BANDCAMP

IV (bund)

BRAT

So I

ここへ来るまでの間
話す事を考えていました
この数年で私に降りかかった事
それを噛み砕いて

頭の中で箇条書きにして
重々しくならぬように話せればと
話の組み立てや　どこで冗談を挟むべきか

車窓からの眺めの中に
書き込まれていきました

反応は大方予想がつきました
あなたと再会してしばらくは
自分の思い通りに事が進むだろうと
話すのが楽しみでなりませんでした

それがここへ座った途端
話すつもりを失いました

いざ会ってみると
口がそれを拒みました
台本の一節一節がどうしても稚拙に思えました

私はただ　今思った事を
そのまま語っているのです

なぜなのでしょう
あんなに手を入れたはずなのに
なぜ手放すのでしょう
会話とは即興でしかありえないのでしょうか

あるいは言葉が腐ったのでしょうか
このカップの中身はもはや
自白剤のようでなりません
言葉は腐るのでしょうか

今話している事も
いずれ黒い塊に？

「今日は風が強くて
あらゆるものが飛ばされているそうです
この窓から見る分には
それもあまりわかりませんが」

再会の台本 (Script For Reunion)

good luck babe!!!

Reason Why

The girl, so confusing version with lorde

orphaned deejay selek 2006-2008

serge fenix Rendered 2

I make music that's either strangely beautiful or beautifully strange.
From Barcelona. Based in Copenhagen.

IV (bund)

Xavier Bonfill

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