VAKNING by Francesco Fabris & Ben Frost
Limited Edition Vinyl LP / Digital via Room40
Available here: https://benfrost.bandcamp.com/album/vakning
Tracklist
1. Harmonic Tremor
2. Vakning
3. Walking Like A Royal Snake Down The Mountain Towards The Sea
4. Magma Fields
5. Öskubrot
6. Gas Warning
7. New Shield Loop
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.
credits
Recorded on Location at Fagradalsfjall, Reykjanes Peninsula Iceland by Francesco Fabris & Ben Frost
Produced By Francesco Fabris, Ben Frost & Lawrence English
Mixed by Francesco Fabris & Ben Frost at Kjarnholt
Mastered By Lawrence English at Negative Space
Photo by Benjamin Hardman
Design by Traianos Pakioufakis
Thankyou Leon Hill, Slysvarnafélagið Landsbjörg Íslands, Bjarni Gaukur Sigurðsson & Colm O'Herlihy
Credits
Recorded on Location at Fagradalsfjall, Reykjanes Peninsula Iceland by Francesco Fabris & Ben Frost
Produced By Francesco Fabris, Ben Frost & Lawrence English
Mixed by Francesco Fabris & Ben Frost at Kjarnholt
Mastered By Lawrence English at Negative Space
Photo by Benjamin Hardman
Design by Traianos Pakioufakis
Thankyou Leon Hill, Slysvarnafélagið Landsbjörg Íslands, Bjarni Gaukur Sigurðsson & Colm O'Herlihy
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Interdisciplinary artist, electronic composer and musician working with live electronics, a/v works, installations and recording studio productions as producer and engineer.
His personal work generates from procedures that depict sound and visual forms out of a naturalistic context, while often filtering the outcome with machine-driven techniques.