A delicately beautiful distillation through fluid subject in different contexts by the Copenhagen-based artist composer and singer, Anne Sofie Strandheim Eike, with Norwegian roots, creating a soundscape from piano, electronic elements and natural field recordings. Art-pop, electronica, jazz and post-classical intertwine in this stripped back release about the existential and emotional wisdom of water for healing and transformation. Fluid, a former Song of the Day, is one of the standouts. as is the starkly beautiful Sad, a song inspired by the north-west coast of Denmark, Eike’s voice trembling and soaring to the sparse, but beautifully arpeggios of her piano accompaniment, before evolving into ghostly vocal harmonies. There’s a sense of the fragility of life through this record. On Fluid, Eike remarks that “being flexible and able to adapt can be a positive and important skill. But in the context of our need for community and belonging, it can sometimes become a weakness, if we adapt too much and lose our sense of self in order to fit in or do what we think others expect of us.” And on Sad, emotions are raw, despite the beauty of sound. “I have tried it all / I′ve thrown myself against the walls / Screamed out in my sleep / From all those secrets you asked me to keep.” From opener Free to the dark waters of The Nile, the haunting Free, the deathly whispers and echoey tiny, jittery echoes on The Wave, Winter’s Night to piano an unaccompanied vocal harmonies on tracks Omrids and Omrids II, this is album that washes up gemstones of beauty on a sparse and lonely, but perfect shore where less, is, most certainly, more. Out on It Sounds.
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