Jökel, by ERIK LEVANDER

Jökel

by ERIK LEVANDER

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Lost Tribe Sound Dampened, womb-like drone of the highest order. Fans of Eric Holm, Pinkcourtesyphone, Arrowounds take note, also for fans of submerged, pressurized, underwater type explorations with rumbling lows and hard-to-grasp-at highs. If you can handle muffled icebergs cracking from temple to temple, you're in for a treat.

Hærleif sounds like a experiencing an earthquake while on the bottom of a mine, lights go out, everything is thrembling, structures in the deep creak and twist. love it. recomended for fans of thomas köner Favorite track: Massa (Mass).

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	1.	Tröskel (Threshold) 08:58
	2.	Expansion (Expansion) 13:20
	3.	Avstånd (Distance) 10:47
	4.	Yta (Surface) 11:45
	5.	Massa (Mass) 08:15

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Swedish musician Erik Levander gained attention as part of the new wave of young DIY laptop experimentalists arising in the early 2000's. His somewhat eclectic early output has since developed into a unique and vibrant blend of digital, analog and acoustic sounds weaved into epic and powerful atmospherics. Levander has performed his work extensively, including shows at Roskilde Festival, Norberg Festival, Nordic Music Days and Forma Nova Festival. With the release of ‘Jökel´, Levander’s seventh full length album, he continues to break new ground, presenting a conceptual album that may be his most minimalistic, lingering and evocative release to date.

As a result of ignorance, negligence, and a lack of immediate responsible profound political action, there are indications that planet Earth is irreversibly about to leave the relative climate stability we have enjoyed during the Holocene for roughly the last 10,000 years. Some of the most apparent signs of ongoing climate change are found in the continuous reports of sea ice, inland ice, shelf ice and glaciers shrinking at an alarming rate. This album is a homage to the still living glaciers. The album title 'Jökel' means 'Glacier' in Swedish, with roots in the Icelandic word 'Jökull'. The compositions are in particular inspired by Levander’s 2009 visit to the glacier Mýrdalsjökull in Iceland, a glacier famous for covering the active volcano Katla. With imaginary field recordings, barren but vigorous soundscapes, Levander invites the listener to experience this desolate glacier 'in sensu'. Perhaps this awareness, and by appreciating the beauty and importance of these natural wonders, we can somehow in the extension help the survival of the glaciers, and contribute to recover the environmental balance of this planet.

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released April 23, 2021

Composed, mixed and mastered by Erik Levander in Berlin, during the
winter 2018-2019.
Cover Photo by Jan Erik Waider.
Sleeve design by Oleg Galay.

A Glacial Movements Records release, April 2021.
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Places that man has forgotten...icy landscapes...fields of flowers covered eternally with ice... Icebergs colliding amongst themselves.

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