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Quiet Bloom is the second full-length album by Copenhagen composer Minais B. Quiet Bloom describes the return to life after losing a loved one. As a treatment for his grief, Minais B explores the solemnness of spiritual music, rituals and ceremonial togetherness. The album takes you in and out of the multi-colored feelings embedded in the process of grieving; threads of sadness, emptiness, crisis, but also lighter playful and even joyful passages dominate the album. The latter take form as alert and sometimes ecstatic arpeggios, as on the opening track "Where We Meet" and later on "Spirit of Miiyo"; tracks that create sonic spaces for celebrations beyond bodily life. The solemnness of the organ is a recurring element, and as the organ breathes, it transforms from virtual Hammond organs to digital synths and again into real church organs like on the albums two "Intermezzos". This exchange between members of the organ family; from the "father of synths", from "real" to "fake" is equal and respectful, as is the treatment of the different phases of grief and gradual return to the surface that Quiet Bloom represents. Love ends up being the successor of emotions, making Quiet Bloom an inspiring journey through the apparent conflicts of the heart and mind -- showing a way of using loss to create something new -- giving the world something back.
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Palimpsest is the debut album by Copenhagen based composer JRMMT. Palimpsest is a document of time, a carrier of traces. Throughout history, ancient scrolls have been cleansed and reused so as to not let the precious parchment go to waste. But over time, the old text emerged from the crevices in the document -- as clear, indelible traces of the past. There is no such thing as a clean slate. And the old world is always breathing through the cracks of the new world. Jens Ramon Murga Meinert Thomsen (JRMMT) explores the traces that are left behind and breathes new life into distant, organic forms in the digital eternity of the present. Here is the sound of the inner chaos, the blood and the organs -- and here is the sound of the icy-blue surface that reaches as far as the eye can see. The body is breathing under the ice and the new Middle Ages are hidden within our time.
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Perma is the debut album by An Gella, the moniker of Copenhagen producer Aske Zidore. Having recorded with artists such as Dean Blunt, Choir Of Young Believers, and CTM, Zidore now opens up a mesmerizing world of his own. Perma is a forceful elegy that ravishes you and leaves you with a strange sense of having experienced love pass through generations. Intense, pristine, and multiplex, Perma oscillates between the moody and the ecstatic. From numerous recording sessions, the sounds of voices, choir, strings, drums, and classical guitar appear -- not only as extractions, but as signifiers that have been isolated from their own original context. The familiar becomes artificially artificial, painting the image of a future that has only warped and distorted memories of a long-lost physical world. The very idea of structure is applied only to be subverted again. Deconstruction and reconstruction appear as equals, while genres are crushed and ground, and then used as ingredients. Their obliteration is just the starting point. Finally, all elements are forced into collision. The result is a musical fugue state. But although all genres and techniques are fair game here, the album never becomes a mess; while all elements and fragments remain discernible at all times, they form a perfectly wholesome mosaic in motion. Jagged and abrupt stabs form compositions that are paired with a crystal-clear sound design, signifying that An Gella is a composer who knows how to cast the creative flow into concrete shapes with masterful craftsmanship. On the level of sound, Perma describes a splintered world that cuts right through you. At one point, it feels like a storm of glass shards, at another if feels like a well-known skin. Includes access to a protected archive of brain scans. Features Villads Flyvbjerg Klint, Pernille Zidore Nygaard, Tobias Lee, Cæcilie Trier, Mads Forsby, Ditte Marie Sisseck, Simon Rabenhøj, Lars Greve, Josephine Opsahl, Suni Zacharias, and Ribe Domkirke Choir. "Vacuum-packed compact disc" packaging.
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