Maersk, by Skjølbrot

Maersk

by Skjølbrot

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1.	Rue Victor Masse to Gare d'Austerlitz 04:22	lyrics
#1 Recordings of streets and metro between Iannis Xenakis' appartment and the Gare d'Austerlitz; Paris 17/10/1961; Athens 01/01/1945
2.	Migrated 07:21	lyrics
#2 Resonance of Bird Market at Place de Parvis, Impact on window at Bibliotheque Nationale; Senagal Parrot in Victoria Park, Bristol
3.	I Am Better Now 02:25	lyrics
#3 Resonance of link corridors beneath Bristol Royal Infirmary; Mycobaccilum Tuberculosis; Vence 02/03/1930
4.	Shipbreaking 06:23	lyrics
#4 Unimak Pass 8/12/2004; Industrial deforestation in Chittagong since 1991 cyclone
5.	Idle Fleet 04:54	info
6.	Ballad of Windfarming 08:27	info
7.	Emma 04:50	lyrics
#6 Exocet strike on Seawise Giant 14/05/1988; Recurring dream of beaching container ship

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Messianic Geography

"no fact that is a cause is for that very reason historical. [...] A historian who takes this as his point of departure stops telling the sequence of events like the beads of a rosary. Instead, he grasps the constellation which his own era has formed with a definite earlier one. Thus he establishes a conception of the present as the ‘time of the now’ which is shot through with chips of Messianic time."
Walter Benjamin - Theses On the Concept of History

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Reviews:

The Wire (Mark Fisher): "There's an eeriness about the containerisation process, about the automation of the ports and the loneliness and of the ships, and this is what Maersk, with it's radio broadcasts, piano, electronics and half-erased field recordings, conveys so powerfully."

Freq: "the musical equivalent of a Mike Nelson installation, in which paradoxical clues scattered around uncanny locations encourage a kind of forensic examination, positioning the listener as a Lovecraftian detective attempting to trace the tracks left by someone or something that is at once human and altogether unknowable."

Boomkat: Album of the Week/Highly Recommended - "Amazing debut collection... a deeply engrossing and peculiar soundworld"

Fluid Radio: "Every piece... is an outstanding achievement and taken as a whole, really encompasses the epitome of cinematic sound art. Each work feeds off one another, building to a climax, on “Emma”, that will leave listeners speechless, and this writer, wordless. Getting there is quite a joy to behold."

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released October 10, 2010

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Skjølbrot Helsinki, Finland

Ascetic Noise / Fictional Geographic Reports

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