{"product_id":"fn592-hamerkop-remote-2020","title":"Hamerkop - Remote (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFlying Nun Records\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is proud to be teaming up with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrag City\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e to release \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHamerkop's\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e forthcoming debut album '\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRemote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e' in Australia and New Zealand on February 28th, 2020. Consisting of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBachelorette's\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Annabel Alpers and drummer\/engineer Adam Cooke, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHamerkop\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e exudes equal parts romance and ennui. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHamerkop\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e exudes equal parts romance and ennui.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRemote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e' is a fully immersive sonic experience with elements of electronica, pop and field recordings combining to a danceable, dazzling degree. Listen to the duo's new track \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Splendour That Was Rome\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. Here, they synthesise disco, electro and kraut in an immaculate pop sensibility. A longing to share the good old days and sweet old world scenes with a new lover infuses with the sonics to form a lava that erupts and flows into the atmosphere, cascading psychedelically over the present-day ruins, as Annabel Alpers' massed choral voices soar to the skies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Splendour That Was Rome\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e contains all the distinctive melody, pretty songwriting and synthetic immersion that made Alpers' pioneering work as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBachelorette\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e such a standout. But the constant triggering of the senses from unexpected angles and algorithms has added a whole new dimension to her craft. This is a musician working at the peak of her powers. And these are everybody's sounds, translated into a highly textured, instantly recognisable musical language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHamerkop\u003c\/strong\u003e is a pair of Baltimore-based sound nerds: Annabel Alpers, the composer, singer and instrumentalist formerly of New Zealand’s \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBachelorette\u003c\/strong\u003e, and Adam Cooke, a Baltimorean drummer\/audio engineer with credits that include \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeach House\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWye Oak\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFuture Islands\u003c\/strong\u003e. Together, they have created a song-cycle that contrasts the often-mundane (yet often satisfying) everyday world with that of the idealised, longed-for fantasy, to find the spaces in between these things, the place where we all feel good about our existence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHamerkop’s\u003c\/strong\u003e debut, '\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRemote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e', started as an exploration of the sonic beauty in Alpers’ collection of field recordings from her homeland and travels around the world. Looped and sampled, they became a set of instrumental sounds of their own, and when played live in a multiple-speaker, surround-sound experience, their effect was transporting. The finished album blends these expansive sounds in choral layers of synths and vocals, with a kaleidoscopic, almost psychedelic quality, all of it anchored by Cooke’s Kraut-minimal drumming.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRemote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e' is a natural progression from the criminally-underrated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBachelorette\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e catalog —seeking catharsis through the contextualising of personal texts into lush songscapes, using the chill of synth-pop to mask the fallible human soul hidden behind it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFar away from her native New Zealand with a new life and family in America, Annabel strove to find elements of her old identity in new environs, building songs out of sonic scraps from remote places, as if she were sewing a blanket in which to wrap them all. As she puts it, “Home for me is in two places, and it’s been causing a lot of creative tension because I wish I could be in both places at once.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe songs of '\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRemote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e' find depth and dimension via a rich tapestry of voices, found sounds and classic pop melodies, as constant synapse triggering from unexpected angles and algorithms reveals, by chance and design, a magical inner life scored by birds and babies, church bells and bonfires. Genre-defying, yet familiar, \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHamerkop\u003c\/strong\u003e translates the topography that stretches out between us into a musical language that celebrates our shared places. The sound of \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHamerkop\u003c\/strong\u003e is multi-layered, changing as it revolves. It’s the sound made by two people, but it could be all of us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hamerkop","offers":[{"title":"FN592 - Vinyl LP","offer_id":58596822647119,"sku":"FN592lp","price":4.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/2164\/3343\/files\/Hamerkop_artwork.jpg?v=1787984800","url":"https:\/\/www.vinylforger.com\/products\/fn592-hamerkop-remote-2020","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}