Name: Remote
Brand: Hamerkop

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-DC-765

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-02-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

781484076513

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Total Cap

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

Artist

Hamerkop

Genre US

Modern Composition

Label US

Drag City

Hamerkop is a pair of Baltimore-based sound nerds: Annabel Alpers, the composer, singer and instrumentalist formerly of New Zealand's Bachelorette, and Adam Cooke, a Baltimorean drummer/ audio engineer with credits that include Beach House, Wye Oak and Future Islands. 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. Hamerkop debut,<i> Remote</i>, 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. The songs of <i>Remote</i> 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-defining but familiar, Hamerkop translates the topography we share into a musical language that celebrates our shared places. The sound of Hamerkop is multi-layered, changing as it revolves.

Remote

Music US