Name: Outside Of Your Lifetime
Brand: Astrid Sonne

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ESC151

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-12-17

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5060486621682

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

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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.

Second full-length release from the Danish composer Astrid Sonne, highlighted by Bandcamps Miles Bowe "not only like Sonne’s best work, but an exciting step for this collective as a whole", referring to a Copenhagen based network of musicians which Astrid Sonne is a vital part of, consisting of artists like Smerz, ML Buch, Erika de Casier and Clarissa Connelly. 

Astrid Sonne grew up on the island of Bornholm, out in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Her connection to the outside world is tangible and textured, informing her experiential electronic designs, the latest of which achieves an apex synergy of sublime synthetic humanism: outside of your lifetime. 

Comprised of 10 concise tracks, the album moves with a precision elegance that belies its improvisational origins. Keys and strings, software and hardware, drones and choral harmonies are deployed with fluency and mystery, both hinting at and hiding elusive narratives within their waveforms.

For Outside Of Your Lifetime, Sonne brings in even more acoustic instruments, providing space for electric guitar (played by ML Buch), organ (featuring Minais B) and vocals (Sonne, Buch and Tobias Kropp) to naturally breathe in unison with the refined electronic sculptures and with Sonne own instrument: the viola. The pieces variously evoke sequencers tethered to esoteric algorithms, fugues in flux, veiled devotionals, and fiercely propulsive free jazz.

Whether this record is about the natural world or human relationships, the lessons are similar: experience accumulates, both as memories and ghosts in the machine. There is no forecasting the future; technology will not bring us closer to tomorrow. Feel something real, make something new, then send it on its way: “To have and not to hold.”

Outside Of Your Lifetime

Music GB