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Empty Airports

Aiming For Enrike

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Format: CD

Cat No: JANSEN139CD

Release Date:  20 January 2023

Label:  Jansen Records / Jansen Plater Produksjon

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  7041889513000

Genres:  Electronic  Ambient  

Release Date:  20 January 2023

Label:  Jansen Records / Jansen Plater Produksjon

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  7041889512997

Genres:  Electronic  Ambient  

  • Description

    Having toured the world and delivered one of the pandemic's most legendary live streams - including bodybuilders and furniture smashing at the old American embassy in Oslo, Aiming for Enrike started working on new music in 2020. Now ready with their fifth album Empty Airports, the tunes flourish further through atmospheric expressions, into floating, minimalistic, electronic, and ambient soundscapes. Empty Airports was composed and recorded in reflection of the quiet Covid19 life during the patience testing lockdown months of 2020 and 2021. Not only is this the duo's longest album ever, but it's also their first double album. The songs are inspired by and belong somewhere between Thom Yorke, Ashra, Nils Frahm, King Crimson in the 80s, Jon Hopkins and Steve Reich. The cover art for Empty Airports is the finishing touch that elevates the album to a complete piece of art. Thor Merlin's unique artwork is a generatively designed collage consisting of clippings from 19 digital paintings and 10 images created with shader programming in Sakuhin: an open-source program that Merlin also uses for live coding of visuals for Aiming for Enrike. The album cover's individual images will be available NFTs. Guitarist Simen F?lstad Nilsen says: "Minimalism, which has always been an important part of our expression, is now cultivated to a much greater extent. When the rush to fulfill musical expectations is abounded, it gives the music more space to become more hypnotic and mesmerizing than before." Empty Airports is another fantastic release from the forward-leaning duo, which justifies that Aiming for Enrike lives entirely in their own universe.

    Description

    Having toured the world and delivered one of the pandemic's most legendary live streams - including bodybuilders and furniture smashing at the old American embassy in Oslo, Aiming for Enrike started working on new music in 2020. Now ready with their fifth album Empty Airports, the tunes flourish further through atmospheric expressions, into floating, minimalistic, electronic, and ambient soundscapes. Empty Airports was composed and recorded in reflection of the quiet Covid19 life during the patience testing lockdown months of 2020 and 2021. Not only is this the duo's longest album ever, but it's also their first double album. The songs are inspired by and belong somewhere between Thom Yorke, Ashra, Nils Frahm, King Crimson in the 80s, Jon Hopkins and Steve Reich. The cover art for Empty Airports is the finishing touch that elevates the album to a complete piece of art. Thor Merlin's unique artwork is a generatively designed collage consisting of clippings from 19 digital paintings and 10 images created with shader programming in Sakuhin: an open-source program that Merlin also uses for live coding of visuals for Aiming for Enrike. The album cover's individual images will be available NFTs. Guitarist Simen F?lstad Nilsen says: "Minimalism, which has always been an important part of our expression, is now cultivated to a much greater extent. When the rush to fulfill musical expectations is abounded, it gives the music more space to become more hypnotic and mesmerizing than before." Empty Airports is another fantastic release from the forward-leaning duo, which justifies that Aiming for Enrike lives entirely in their own universe.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Empty Airports Pt. 1
      • 2. Empty Airports Pt. 2
      • 3. Empty Airports Pt. 3
      • 4. The Rats and the Children
      • 5. Feel No Threat/Absent Lovers
      • 6. Slopes
      • 7. The Castle
      • 8. Square Machine
      • 9. System 0
      • 10. Pulse Fragments

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Empty Airports
      • 2. The Rats and the Children

      Side 2

      • 1. Feel No Threat/Absent Lovers
      • 2. Slopes

      Disc 2

      Side 1

      • 1. The Castle
      • 2. Square Machine
      • 3. System 0

      Side 2

      • 1. Pulse Fragments