Label: Malmö Inre
Catalog#: MI014
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Sweden
Released: 2019
DISCOGS
A1 Kläppen
A2 Kläppen II
A3 Natt & Dag
B1 Delta
B2 Baby Blues
B3 Kont
スウェーデン発ディスコ・レーベル〈Fasaan Recordings〉をPrins Emanuelとともに運営する、マルメ在住のプロデューサーIvar Lantz（イーヴァル・ランツ）のソロ・プロジェクトGolden Ivyのファースト・フルレングスLPが、同地の地下レーベルMalmö Inreからアナウンス。Jon Hassell「第四世界の鼓動」を自らの解釈で拡張させた前作「Monika EP」に続き、本作も自身が操るヴァイオリンとフルートをフィーチャー。アコースティック楽器の放つ繊細な音色に、Roedeliusを思わせる古ぼけた味わいのエレクトロニクス、民族的なエレメントを柔軟に織り交ぜ、スカンジナヴィアの森のスピリットを呼び起こすディープ・エスノを探求。ディスコ〜バレアリックという世界的潮流から自身の心の故郷に遡上してゆくようなフォークロア回帰志向は、Prins Emanuelのフォーク作「Diagonal Musik」にも通じます。今期もっともクワイエット・ヒップな傑作の予感。ヴァイナルのリリース予定日は12月20日。
On his previous album for Malmö Inre - Monika - Ivar Lantz promised us the width of the Scandinavian forests within reach. With this new album, again under the guise of Golden Ivy; a new chapter of that same tale is laid forth. Truly siblings born from the same creative flow, they both stand alone from Lantz’s previous musical endeavors and together to support each other. Kläppen is an epic mellow experience for both the body and the mind. An almost family friendly record for the home stereo system, and yet quietly but daringly explorative of the avant-garde terrain. While the title is identical to an actual place on the map, don’t let that fool you. The word itself is an old Swedish way of describing a hilltop, and can still be heard in local talk to this day. But in the context of this album, it is essentially an imagined place. And it’s important that we all have a place like this to go to. A place where our theta waves oscillate in the right rhythms. With his violin and flute, Lantz have found the right tools to harness these rhythms and carve them into sound waves, guiding us there. Kläppen is, alas, both the trip and the destination. Ouroboros! - Simon Eliasson ▲
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