Aiming For Enrike - Slopes
For 8 enchanting minutes Aiming for Enrike leads the way over rough terrain during the discovery of new landscapes.
The experimental duo, Aiming for Enrike, is ready with their fifth album Empty Airports, and now their second single. Lean back and enjoy the journey before the release. By developing an atmospheric and massive expression, they take the music further into a floating, minimalist, electronic and ambient soundscape.
Guitarist Simen Følstad Nilsen says this about "Slopes":
"This track showcases the more melancholic side of the album with a Burial-inspired vibe combined with shoegaze synth sounds, glitchy drum machines and guitars drenched in reverb."
Despite the fact that we hear synths floating through the track, these are created exclusively by guitar effects.
The album, Empty Airports, was composed and recorded in reflection of the quiet Covid19 life during the slow lockdown months of 2020 and 2021. Not only is this the duo's longest album ever, but it's also their first double album. The songs are inspired by and lie somewhere between Thom Yorke, Ashra, Nils Frahm, King Crimson in the 80s, Jon Hopkins and Steve Reich.
The cover art is the icing on the cake. Thor Merlin's unique art is a generatively designed collage consisting of clippings from 19 digital paintings and 10 images created with shader programming in Sakuhin: a self-produced open-source program that Merlin also uses for live coding of visual effects for Aiming for Enrike. The album cover's individual images will be available in their entirety as NFTs.
Empty Airports is another outstanding release from the forward-looking duo, which proves that Aiming for Enrike lives in their entirely own universe.
INFO
Aiming for Enrike - Slopes
Art. no: JANSENS278
Released: October 21st, 2022
Tracklist:
1. Slopes
CREDITS:
Tobias Ørnes Andersen - Drums, percussion, synths and drum machines
Simen Følstad Nilsen - Guitars and synths
Written by: Aiming for Enrike
Produced by: Simen Følstad Nilsen
Mixed by: Simen Følstad Nilsen
Mastered by: Christian Obermayer at Strype Audio
