
Recordings from The Åland Islands
Jeremiah Chiu
Musikk på CD · Engelsk · 2022 · Ambient
Utgitt | <s.l.> : IARC , 2022
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Omfang | 1 CD
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Opplysninger | IARC0053. - In Åland Air ; On the Other Sea ; Snåcko ; Stureby House Piano ; Rocky Passage ; Kumlinge Kyrka ; Voices ; By Foot By Sea ; Anna's Organ ; Archipelago ; Under the Midnight Sun. - In 2017 Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer traveled together to the Åland Islands between Sweden and Finland. The concept of recording music there came about as Honer & Chiu learned more and more about the islands. They were taken by the serene and strange quality of the place. The sun doesn’t set in the summer (and barely rises in the winter). The network of miniature islands is traversed by ferry which, according to Chiu, “casts a surreal horizontal movement through space and time, with islands shifting into and out of periphery, totally still and calm, yet always in motion.” Easing listeners into the feeling of the place, the album’s opening track “In Åland Air” is a dream-like haze that slows time, invoking the feeling of descending by plane onto the archipelago, a place Chiu recalls as “lush with a gentle, brackish breeze...” On “Snåcko,” a track named for the island next to Kumlinge, the music becomes a transportive portrait, painting in sound “the romantic and gentle atmosphere of the forests in Åland — a place where your eyes slowly adjust to the rainbow-colored moss covering granite boulders. Walking around, you find the forest floor blossoming with blueberries, currants, and flowers...
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ISBN | Nkr. 300.00
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Hylleplass | 781.5 CHI
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