Posh Isolation
Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin - Together
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“Together”
is
the
third
collaborative
album
by
Frederik
Valentin
&
Loke
Rahbek,
following
2020's
“Elephant”
and
2017's
“Buy
Corals
Online”.
The
album
was
originally
conceived
in
response
to
a
commission
by
the
Danish
documentary
festival
CPH:Dox
to
create
an
alternate
soundtrack
to
Chris
Marker’s
sublime
documentary
travelogue
from
1983,
“Sans
Soleil”.
Lo-fi
vignettes
of
guitar
and
field
recordings
are
presented
alongside
electroacoustic
experiments,
as
enchanting
invitations
to
rhythmical
synthetic
worlds,
with
each
finding
poise
about
Marker's
meditation
on
the
nature
of
human
memory.
With
acoustic
instruments
treated
digitally
and
instrumental
performances
reinterpreted,
“Together”
travels
the
lush
path
of
their
earlier
works
to
new
destinations.
The
album
unfolds
like
a
series
of
postcards,
its
colours
bleached
by
the
sun
and
its
stories
told
with
blurry
fragments.
Behind
the
details,
the
ruling
stories
are
seamlessly
enjoyed
if
not
intimately
entwined.
On
bike
in
the
city,
swimming
in
the
harbour,
birch
trees,
kissing,
first
teenage
acid
trip,
experiencing
the
oneness
of
life
in
a
messy
adolescent
apartment.
Stargazing
eye-to-eye,
every
face
seems
familiar.
Colourful
blankets,
being
broke,
feeling
joyous,
sandals,
a
fountain,
flowers.
Preteens
high
on
soda
with
joy-blushed
skin.
Like
Marker,
Together
travels
in
time
to
revisit
lost
emotions.
The
inner
cosmology
of
Valentin
&
Rahbek's
work
is
that
of
naturalistic
reportage
just
gently
sprayed
by
the
crashing
tide
of
psychedelic
curiosity.
“Together”
is
about
finding
the
miraculous
in
the
ordinary.
It's
about
trying
to
find
composure
in
a
world
where
suffering
and
ecstasy
live
as
next
door
neighbours.
It's
about
how
we
are
dying
even
as
we
tremble
with
as
much
life
as
we've
ever
felt.
Valentin's
long
wake
of
solo
works
and
collaborations
include
his
productions
with
Yung
Lean
(as
Jonatan
Leandoer127)
for
the
album
“Nectar”,
as
well
as
their
joint
commission
for
Sweden's
Cullberg
Ballet,
and
most
recently
includes
last
year's
exquisite
double
EP
“0011001/
0011000”
for
Posh
Isolation.
For
more
than
a
decade,
Rahbek
has
been
making
electronic
music
as
Croatian
Amor
and
a
wealth
of
other
monikers.
He
has
been
running
Posh
Isolation
with
Christian
Stadsgaard
since
2009.
The
cover
features
the
work
of
Copenhagen-based
photographer
Halfdan
Venlov,
portraying
the
city's
youth
in
a
cemetery
in
central
Copenhagen,
and
forms
part
of
his
ongoing
series
“Under
Heaven”.
The
sunny
meeting
against
unkept
headstones
and
weathered
memorials
is
an
evocative
companion
to
the
blissful
details
“Together”
encloses.
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