Label: Room40

瞬殺完売となったカラーヴァイナルを入荷、今回限りとなります!!メチャクチャ興味深いフィールドレコーディング!!サウンドアーティスト、音楽家として活動する2者Francesco Fabris & Ben Frostが録音、そしてプロデューサーとしてRoom40のオーナーLawrence Englishが絡んだ、アイスランドの火山Fagradalsfjallの至近距離フィールドレコーディング!!12世紀から活動停止状態にあったFagradalsfjallが2021年に噴火、現在レイキャビクに拠点を置く2者が即現場に駆けつけレコーディングを開始したという気合いの録音ブツ。溶岩が流れ冷えていく様、ガスの噴射など、変容、消滅、創造の瞬間を一度に捉えた超傑作。







Matte laminate and monochrome printed sleeve, with printed inner with black vinyl

A Note from Lawrence English on Vakning


Nothing is fixed, nothing is permanent, nothing holds for anyone, any time or anything.

As stable as we might choose to think it is, this planet is anything but that. A paper thin crust, the zone in which we find ourselves, and mostly concern ourselves with, exists as a modest veil cloaking a dynamic seismic turbulence that is as powerful as it is unknowable.

There are moments though where ruptures occur. The pressure from within carves its way to, and through, the surface of the planet simultaneously delivering destruction and virgin landscapes, as primordial as any we might care to imagine. It is here, in these places, where we can literally see the living planet, that geologic time is condensed and world building is made visible, and audible to us, in an unrestrained and provocative detail.

These volcanic ruptures, such as those captured on Vakning by Francesco Fabris and Ben Frost, speak to the very living geology of Earth. These recordings, captured at close range, exist at a nexus where liquid rock becomes solid. They capture moments of transformation, of obliteration and of creation, often all at once.

These are recordings of a living, material planet, dynamic and unrestrained.