Strië & Scanner - Struktura Revisited

Strangely Isolated Place

£36

Format: 2 x 12" Vinyl, Gatefold, Grey/Black
Catalogue No.: ASIPV034
Release Date: 31 Jan 2022
Genre: Ambient, Drone, Experimental

(Strië)
A1 - Proun
A2 - Man And The Cosmos Around
A3 - Untitled 1956
A4 - The Steamer Odin
A5 - Chance And Order
B1 - Foxes
B2 - Aeroplane Flying
B3 - Vogel Wolke
B4 - Enigma Of The Day

(Scanner)
C1 - Reconsider Chance
C2 - Nuorp
C3 - The Earthbound Fox
C4 - Odin Ready
D1 - Enigma Typher
D2 - Untilt
D3 - Woman And The Cosmos

Polish composer Olga Wojciechowska and veteran electronic producer Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner, combine on A Strangely Isolated Place to revisit a beloved Strië album - Olga’s more electronic and experimental alias.

With previous releases on Serein and Time Released Sound as Strië, Olga Wojciechowska’s ‘Struktura’ was released in 2015 to a limited audience due to its physical-only format. As Olga’s work becomes increasingly more coveted, through her more recent releases on A Strangely Isolated Place (Unseen Traces & Infinite Distances), and with Struktura praised as one of her finest albums to date, the discussion to breathe new life into the album resulted in a unique pairing with Scanner, an electronic music producer and multimedia artist responsible for some of the most defining works of the genre since the early 1990s.

Blurring the line between harmony and dissonance, Struktura’soriginal recordings paint an eerie, haunting and beautiful picture, conceptualized around abstract art, with intricacies and mystery abound. Here, Strië’s original recordings remain untouched, albeit lovingly remastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri, and it is left toScanner to provide further interpretations of Olga’s original recordings.

Scanner productions can typically traverse a myriad of styles, but here, Robin took a primarily live-hardware approach to the remixes, allowing the rawness of his recordings to add story and depth. Recorded in one take, with no overdubs, the reinterpretations strip the melodies and textures to their original essence, bringing an entirely analog element to Olga’sintrinsically detailed originals.