Name: Great Doubt
Brand: Astrid Sonne

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ESC192

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Release date

2024-10-11

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ESC192C

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2024-04-12

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Astrid Sonne

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Electronic

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Escho

Escho is a Copenhagen-based music label primarily operated by Nis Bysted and Nis Sigurdsson, with the assistance of Andreas Hauer-Jensen and Anders Jørgen Mogensen from KLoAK. With their expertise in the industry, Escho has become a prominent force in the music scene, offering a diverse range of artists and performers. Their visual credits are attributed to [a2598976], adding an artistic touch to their releases.

With a strong presence in Copenhagen's music community, Escho showcases an impressive roster of talented musicians. The label prides itself on its ability to discover and nurture emerging talent, providing them with a platform to share their unique sound with the world. Whether it's indie rock or experimental electronic music, Escho offers something for every discerning listener.

Driven by passion and dedication, Escho aims to push boundaries and challenge conventional norms within the music industry. By collaborating with innovative artists who are unafraid to take risks, they consistently deliver groundbreaking releases that captivate audiences worldwide. As an authority in the field, Escho continues to shape the future of music through its commitment to quality and creativity.

Great Doubt is the third full length LP by Danish composer Astrid Sonne. Throughout her acclaimed discography, Astrid Sonne has been carefully crafting different moods through electronic and acoustic instrumental endeavours. On Great Doubt this skill is refined, now with the distinct addition of the composer's own vocal in front. The tone of each track is unmistakably Sonne’s, structured around contrasts through an impeccable sense of timing. Lyrics on the album are sparse, merely highlighting different scenes or emotional states of being, leaving the music to fill in the blanks. Yet they also form a pattern of ambiguity, consolidated through the album title, searching for answers through looking at how and what you are asking, questions for the world, questions of love. The viola, a trusted companion since Astrid Sonne’s youth, appears effortlessly throughout the album, fully integrated into the sonic universe; through a pizzicato driven arrangement in the poignant track “Almost” or along with booms and claps in mutated cinematic stabs during “Give my all”, paraphrasing Mariah Carey's 1997 ballad. Yet the string section also gives way to explorations of woodwinds, counterbalancing the bowed movements with digital brass and airy flutes. Finally, beats and detuned piano are fresh additions to the soundscape, cementing how Sonne’s practice is always evolving into new territories. In fall 2022, Astrid Sonne relocated from Copenhagen with its peers of artists such as ML Buch, Erika de Casier and Smerz, to live in London, where musicians of the South-East London scene like Coby Sey, Lolina, Still House Plants and Mica Levi provide a new inspirational framework. “Great Doubt” bears witness to both of those geographical locations, yet finds itself in its own unique space, in many ways due to the presence of Sonne's voice throughout. A voice that has always been present in her work, but never fully explored as a solo instrument before now. Astrid Sonne elaborates on the wish to work more in depth with the voice: “I come from a tradition of choir singing where I’ve used my voice as a way of creating unity with other voices. I’ve disciplined my voice in a certain way and this album is an exploration of me trying to find my own voice as an instrument, as a communicator, as a new way of being honest.” Questions take up a central role throughout the album. The doubt is 13 both a blessing and a curse, always lying in-between, acting as both what holds back and drives forward. A metamorphosis not going anywhere. The great doubt takes place in a space of courage, chances, love, loss, gifts and surprises

Great Doubt

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Discover Great Doubt by Astrid Sonne. Danish composer's third LP featuring her own vocals. A captivating blend of electronic and acoustic instruments. Label: Escho.