Astrid Sonne – Outside Of Your Lifetime

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: ESC151
Barcode: 5060486621682
Release Date: 17 Dec 2021
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

work, but an exciting step for this collective as a whole", referring to a Copenhagen based network of musicians which Astrid Sonne is a vital part of, consisting of artists like Smerz, ML Buch, Erika de Casier and Clarissa Connelly. Astrid Sonne grew up on the island of Bornholm, out in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Her connection to the outside world is tangible and textured, informing her experiential electronic designs, the latest of which achieves an apex synergy of sublime synthetic humanism: outside of your lifetime. Comprised of 10 concise tracks, the album moves with a precision elegance that belies its improvisational origins. Keys and strings, software and hardware, drones and choral harmonies are deployed with fluency and mystery, both hinting at and hiding elusive narratives within their waveforms. For "outside of your lifetime", Sonne brings in even more acoustic instruments, providing space for electric guitar (played by ML Buch), organ (featuring Minais B) and vocals (Sonne, Buch and Tobias Kropp) to naturally breathe in unison with the refined electronic sculptures and with Sonne own instrument: the viola. The pieces variously evoke sequencers tethered to esoteric algorithms, fugues in flux, veiled devotionals, and fiercely propulsive free jazz. Whether this record is about the natural world or human relationships, the lessons are similar: experience accumulates, both as memories and ghosts in the machine. There is no forecasting the future; technology will not bring us closer to tomorrow. Feel something real, make something new, then send it on its way: “To have and not to hold.” Astrid Sonne will be on a UK tour on November 16-22th, playing a headline show at Iklectik in London on November 16 and joining CURL on the following dates: Nov 17: Strange Brew, Bristol Nov 19: The White Hotel, Manchester Nov 20: The Glad Café, Glasgow Nov 21: Brave Exhibitions, Newcastle

Track list: A1. My Attitude My Horoscope A2. Moderato A3. Stuck in Pause A4. Mirror Behaviour A5. Fields of Grass B1. Infirmity of Temper B2. Greener B3. Palmistry (ft. Minais B) B4. Tb Honest B5. Withdrawal