Still, by ARIA ROSTAMI & DANIEL BLOMQUIST

Still

by ARIA ROSTAMI & DANIEL BLOMQUIST

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diego chersicola A bleak world, that in which these two are travelling, yet full of surprises and hopes, anyway well conceived. No dark place is too dark if you bring the torch of musical expertise with you, so we permit ourselves to get in and once again, light does appear.

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Crystal gazer is heart stoppingly good
Favorite track: Crystal Gazer.

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	1.	-2 °C 06:50
	2.	Undercooled 10:41
	3.	Hoarfrost 10:16
	4.	Crystal Gazer 10:24
	5.	-3 °C 07:02
	6.	A Paralysis 10:06

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Five years have passed since Glacial Movements published the wonderful "Wandering Eye" album by the duo Aria Rostami and Daniel Blomquist, whose themes focused on a description of the best places to observe space from the Antarctic Plateau. A further step forward is represented by "Still", whose purpose is to describe how time can change its motion in case of cold weather.

" "Still" consists of a few recordings done within our first year of collaborating (2015-2016) - the opening track was our first studio recording, everything we had done prior to that was strictly live. Throughout this project, we've tried a lot of different approaches and made a special effort for each record and each live show to make it feel different from the last. In that first year, we primarily aimed to make songs that were built over long periods of time - usually getting noisier and/or more intense - and this was how we had envisioned "our sound" at the time. This also means that songs that were more on the traditional ambient side didn't make the cut of our first record, "Wandering Eye". When Glacial Movements approached us about a second release, we went with a different direction and the songs we chose for "Still" captured a new spirit in our work that was originally left on the cutting room floor. As time went on, we started venturing into new ideas like experimental techno, noise, and more traditional compositions while the songs on "Still" sat like a time capsule. We released more music, expanding our sound, and "Still", which was originally slated for a 2018 release, got pushed back further as conflicts on release schedules came up. We could never have predicted what the world would have looked like in 2021 when this record will finally be released. Somehow, through elements of chance, "Still" is finally being released in a world that feels like it is on pause in so many ways. Most of the songs on "Still" change over time. They do not sound the same when they end as they did when they started. This change is subtle rather than grand and over time the songs become completely new. For the song and album titles, we were thinking about time slowing or stopping in cold weather - how life is on pause and how movement is difficult. The stillness feels more like a cocoon rather than a hibernation - there is something changing over time - and although we had no idea what a global pandemic or politics of today would look like when making this work, the world today completely recontextualizes the music and the delay in the release now feels appropriate. "

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released February 15, 2021

All songs by Aria Rostami and Daniel Blomquist
Mastering by Sean McCann at Recital
Cover Photo by Bjarne Riesto
Layout by Oleg Galay

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Places that man has forgotten...icy landscapes...fields of flowers covered eternally with ice... Icebergs colliding amongst themselves.

Glacial Movements is a label born to describe and spread these thoughts/images through sound. ... more

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