Elephant, by Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek

Elephant

by Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek

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Adrien Tibi Figurative, contemplative, abstract yet extremely organic. The most magnetic record of 2020! Favorite track: Elephant.

C://FNFN Simply truly beautiful from start to end ; it sounds rich, true, recorded straight with few elements but where each has its own life ; I deeply love when a Posh I manages to merge acoustic and digital, analog life turned poetical and political. A big thumb up, kissed & soaked in honey on this album. Favorite track: The Heart Of Things.

Tampertronics Comforting yet sinister; a great mix between organic and synthesis. The cumulative effect of this album is something really special. I was sold from the first track, but it continues to grow on me every time I listen. Favorite track: Touch And Vision.

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1.	Solina 03:34	buy track
2.	Touch And Vision 04:21	buy track
3.	Scarlett 08:04	buy track
4.	In Waves ft. CTM 03:16	buy track
5.	Call Me By My True Names 02:45	buy track
6.	Sense World 03:41	buy track
7.	The Heart Of Things 05:31	buy track
8.	Elephant 03:39	buy track

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The combined forces of Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek first found a way into the world in 2017 with the album 'Buy Corals Online'. Together they now present 'Elephant', an eight-track album that composes an inquisitive space with its parts.

The economy of movement across Rahbek and Valentin's new collaborative album makes for a gentle transmission of its abstract intimacies. This presence, which we caught glimpses of on their previous work 'Buy Corals Online', is shaped by the delicate interplay between acoustic instrumentation and synthetically rendered sounds. Hauntingly melodic at times, the album feels like a suite of uncanny lullabies that grant access to realities that can only be found in dreams. Rahbek and Valentin are always leading us somewhere and showing us something - one piece of the scene at a time, coming and going with different parts of a puzzle that eventually settles into a complete form. And through all this we perceive an inviting restlessness on their behalf, encouraging us to stray further and further into the private space of 'Elephant'.

Valentin is perhaps best known for his work in the exquisite atypical pop group Kyo, though his wide-reaching music and videography practices covertly underpin his flagship projects. Most recently, Valentin has been working with Yung Lean as both producer on his 'Nectar' album as Jonatan Leandoer127 as well as on their commission for Sweden's Cullberg Ballet. As Croatian Amor, Rahbek has made similar forays into unworldly pop and his work with Christian Stadsgaard as Damien Dubrovnik has been as critical as their co-founding of Posh Isolation.

Modest interventions from processed field-recordings and semi-erupting synths invite you to zoom in enough to hear the human hand. An attention to listening, to how sounds cradle the small movements and gestures that naturally accompany the playing of guitar, piano, and viola, is acutely developed by Rahbek and Valentin. It's in this way that 'Elephant' persuades us that even small stories unfurl into the most intricate and tremendous of sagas.

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released February 28, 2020

Mixed by Nikolaj Nielsen
Mastered by John Hannon

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