{"product_id":"hamerkop-remote-vinyl","title":"Remote (Vinyl)","description":"Hamerkop - Remote (Vinyl) \u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 781484076513 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHamerkop is a pair of Baltimore-based sound\u003cbr\u003enerds: Annabel Alpers, the composer, singer and\u003cbr\u003einstrumentalist formerly of New Zealands Bachelorette, and Adam Cooke, a Baltimorean drummer\/audio engineer with credits that include Beach\u003cbr\u003eHouse, Wye Oak and Future Islands. Together,\u003cbr\u003ethey have created a song-cycle that contrasts the\u003cbr\u003eoften-mundane (yet often satisfying) everyday world\u003cbr\u003ewith that of the idealized, longed-for fantasy, to\u003cbr\u003efind the spaces in between these things, the place\u003cbr\u003ewhere we all feel good about our existence.\u003cbr\u003eHamerkops debut, Remote, started as an exploration of the sonic beauty in Alpers collection\u003cbr\u003eof field recordings from her homeland and travels\u003cbr\u003earound the world. Looped and sampled, they became a set of instrumental sounds of\u003cbr\u003etheir own, and when played live in a multiple-speaker, surround-sound experience, their\u003cbr\u003eeffect was transporting. The finished album blends these expansive sounds in choral\u003cbr\u003elayers of synths and vocals, with a kaleidoscopic, almost psychedelic quality, all of it\u003cbr\u003eanchored by Cookes Kraut-minimal drumming.\u003cbr\u003eRemote is a natural progression from the criminally-underrated Bachelorette catalog\u003cbr\u003eseeking catharsis through the contextualizing of personal texts into lush songscapes,\u003cbr\u003eusing the chill of synth-pop to mask the fallible human soul hidden behind it. Far away\u003cbr\u003efrom her native New Zealand with a new life and family in America, Annabel strove to\u003cbr\u003efind elements of her old identity in new environs, building songs out of sonic scraps\u003cbr\u003efrom remote places, as if she were sewing a blanket in which to wrap them all. As she\u003cbr\u003eputs it, Home for me is in two places, and its been causing a lot of creative tension\u003cbr\u003ebecause I wish I could be in both places at once.\u003cbr\u003eThe songs of Remote find depth and dimension via a rich tapestry of voices, found\u003cbr\u003esounds and classic pop melodies, as constant synapse triggering from unexpected\u003cbr\u003eangles and algorithms reveals, by chance and design, a magical inner life scored by\u003cbr\u003ebirds and babies, church bells and bonfires. Genre-defying, yet familiar, Hamerkop\u003cbr\u003etranslates the topography that stretches out between us into a musical language that\u003cbr\u003ecelebrates our shared places.\u003cbr\u003eThe sound of Hamerkop is multi-layered, changing as it revolves. Its the sound made\u003cbr\u003eby two people, but it could be all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Egg\r 2. We Can Wing\r 3. The Splendour That Was Rome\r 4. Remote\r 5. Deadwood\r 6. Polisher\r 7. Mourning Bells\r 8. T.I.N.Y. \r 9. Lull\r 10. Patience\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 2\/7\/20\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: 12\" Vinyl inner sleeve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Hamerkop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42026400546897,"sku":"8XHT6R-QOJ8-13","price":25.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/hamerkop-remote_Nv1wj.jpg?v=1762482891","url":"https:\/\/apocalypsevinyl.com\/es\/products\/hamerkop-remote-vinyl","provider":"Apocalypse Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}