Frederik Valentin - 0011000
(c) 2021 Posh Isolation
Artist....: Frederik Valentin
Album.....: 0011000
Source....: WEB/WAV
Tracks....: 4
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Posh Isolation
Encoder...: LAME 3.100
Quality...: 249 kbps / 441kHz / Joint Stereo
URL.......: http://frederikvalentin-poshisolation.bandcamp.com/album/0011000
Tracklist:
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1. Melody feat. Tex 3:07
2. Magic 6:42
3. Tears feat. Soho Rezanejad 4:40
4. Exit 4:34
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19:03
Total:35.79 MB / 19:03
Release Notes:
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Posh Isolation is proud to present the latest work from Copenhagen's quietly
iconoclastic artist Frederik Valentin. Arriving in two halves, '0011001' &
'0011000' together transport a suite of songs and compositions that render
life's beauty in the same breath as life's binding determinations.
'0011000' is the second element of this twofold work. It features the Swedish
vocalist Tex Weerasinghe and the Copenhagen-based composer and vocalist Soho
Rezanejad.
As if catalysing all those who came into his orbit in the last years, Valentin
has ushered in a dextrous and unassuming body of work as a willing collaborator
and confidant. The most recent product of these engagements was his second album
with Loke Rahbek, 'Elephant,' a work that pensively ricochets around the
synthetic scaffolding of a wonderous acoustic environment, tracing songs as it
goes. Preceding this was Valentin's breath-taking duo KYO with Hannes Norrvide.
2018 saw the release of 'All The Same Dream,' a full-length collaboration with
vocalist Jeuru, which fantasised a rougher, granular edifice on top of the
empyrean metropolis that was imagined with each previous release with Norrvide.
Working with Yung Lean, Valentin was the producer of his album 'Nectar' as
Jonatan Leandoer127, and also worked on a commissioned production for Sweden's
Cullberg Ballet in 2018.
Valentin's new works, '0011001' & æ0011000', do not abstain from collaborations,
though on this occasion the authorship and breadth of scope remain entirely his
own. As Valentin himself describes the album, "This is the space between
becoming a father and losing my mother. All within one year, the space between
zero and one." This is reflected in the two titles. Each is a binary
representation of 0 and 1. Across the album, the space between these two
thematic points is rendered in exquisitely gentle meditations on the quavering
beauty that can be found herewith. "This is the infinite joy and unavoidable
beauty of decay. This is from nothing to everything to nothing to everything to
... This is the sound of determinations, the entity of numbers."
Kindled from the gravity of these turbulent moments and experiences, Valentin
has produced a twofold album that stands as his most accomplished and moving
work to date. Throughout both '0011001' & '0011000' there is a gracious and
elegiac instrumentation that knits a steady presence of electronic parts into
perfectly balanced song-like structures. Never over-reaching with his
experimentalist impulses, and never employing predictability to resolve a
composition, Valentin has produced a suite of works that encourage a blissful,
deep listening whilst retaining the ensnaring rapture of pop. If his deft
ability as a multi-instrumentalist wasn't obvious from any one of his previous
collaborations, it is perhaps on show most succinctly here. Likewise, Valentin's
compositions and arrangements capture a maturity and earnest intensity that has
not been revealed until now.