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MYLJA 002LP
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Cellist Maarten Vos and pianist Nils Davidse became close friends over a shared love for modular synthesizers. Two musicians with a taste for contemporary electronic music, Vos and Davidse began experimenting and constantly extending each other's boundaries in hour-long colorful improvisations in the studio. Both of them being occupied with other projects, their monthly recording sessions became moments of pure freedom. Most of the album was composed and recorded in and around a forest cabin tucked away in the Dutch riparian woodlands. Intuitively following its surroundings, Superbloom is a true jungle of vivid and organic sounds that reflect both Vos and Davidse's musical backgrounds intertwined in a melodic and harmonically rich soundscape. It's a many layered affair, created with analog and digital synths, some hints of piano and cello, field recordings and processing through different kinds of tape machines.
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MYLJA 001LP
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Krijn Moons, aka Alchi, emerges as a new voice in instrumental electronic music with his debut Full Of It released with Mylja. Inspired by artists such as Nicolás Jaar, Boards of Canada, Sigur Rós, and James Holden, Alchi produces and performs music that is rooted in experiment rather than a single genre, flowing between and weaving through alternative dance, instrumental electronic post rock and neoclassical influences. Playing with imperfections and disarray, Alchi's work honors emotional ambiguity, cultivating a sound that can be equally euphoric as it can be melancholic, a feeling that words cannot -- and do not have to -- articulate. This is also the approach to composition and production for Full Of It, Alchi explains. "More than the sum of its parts, the sound of a song creates a space that it starts to exist in, an intangible context shaped by the details that come from zoomed-in sound design and production or even working with old or broken instruments. At a certain point, in this space that feels somewhat unknown and familiar at the same time, everything comes to life." Within this ambiguity, Alchi finds a place to liberate himself from instrumental boundaries, creating landscapes that value coincidence, playful sound choices and a little bit of chaos. Full Of It portrays an uncommon kind of music that, in its abstraction, layers, and linear structures, will balance both the familiar and the surreal. 180 gram vinyl.
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