ÓLAFUR
ARNALDS
presenta
“EULOGY FOR EVOLUTION 2017”
la ristampa del disco di debutto
pubblicata 10 anni fa da Erased Tapes Records, in uscita il 25 agosto 2017,
giorno del 30° compleanno del talentuoso pianista e compositore noto in tutto
il mondo e tra i primi esponenti della scena
neo-classica.
Originariamente scritto 12 anni
fa da Ólafur, il disco è stato riadattato dall’artista stesso
e rimasterizzato dall’amico Nils Frahm
per presentare “Eulogy for Evolution”, lo streaming del
brano “1440”:
Following its initial release in 2007 and coinciding with Olafur’s 30th birthday, label founder Robert Raths gifted the chance to this
record to shine a second time.
“Eulogy
For Evolution” is
a journey from birth to death, transporting the listener through life itself.
Originally written as a teenager, the record has now been restored with the
help of his friends, remixed by Ólafur
himself and remastered by Nils Frahm.
The cover art was
redesigned and enhanced by Torsten Posselt at FELD using the original
photographs taken by Stuart Bailes during a trip to Ólafur’s home in Iceland in 2007.
To
experience the record in the present day is not only to experience the past,
but also the sheer timelessness and relevance of these compositions, and the
ambition Ólafur has had from the
very beginning. “Fast forward 10 years,
our relationships and knowledge in sound have matured, but you can still hear
this urgency in Óli’s songs that caught my ears to begin with”, states Robert Raths.
Words from Ólafur, June 2017:
“I spent a couple of weeks in some sort of a time machine,
opening up and working on 12-year-old recordings. There was noise in the
microphones, some channels seemed accidentally muted, but sometimes I found
myself admiring what my teenage self was capable of. It was somehow
charming. Well, most of it. So I fixed the stuff that wasn’t before sending it
off to Nils Frahm for remastering.
It was an ambitious outing. When I
was 18 my uncle passed away from cancer. It was the first time I had
experienced the passing of someone close to me, so I dedicated my work to him.
Around the same time his first grandchild was born, and was named after
him. I was inspired by the joy and positivity he brought, and saw that somehow
life was extended after our death. So I set out to create a solid piece of
music that would take us through the circle of life. This work by a highly
emotional teenager has been revived, matured and, I hope you’ll agree, improved
by some of my favourite people in this world. I’m grateful to see it get
another chance to shine and I hope you will enjoy this journey to the past.”
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