Digital liner notes:
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"During the Christmas holidays in 2019, I went on a trip to China with Fei, my life partner. We visited her hometown Beihai and its surroundings in the Guanxi province, as well as Shanghai. I brought a sound recorder with me and did some field recordings during the trip.

I decided I would make a piece based on those field recordings, where the music is built upon the original sound instead of silence. Like painting on top of an existing picture.

These recordings had become precious memories for me and when I shared them with my friends from haknam, they became like little stories. I wanted them to tell those stories back at me with their instruments, in guided semi-improvised sessions. My composition process would be then to rearrange and build upon their sounds in a way I would see fit. And then, finally, each musician would retranscribe the final piece in their own way in a shared graphical score. I wanted it to feel like everything should come from each musician’s own voice.

You cannot tell someone else’s story. When you do, it’s already your own."

Xavier Bonfill
credits
released January 6, 2023

Concept, artistic direction: Xavier Bonfill
I, II: music by Xavier Bonfill & haknam
III, IV: music and text by Xavier Bonfill
IV: translations by haknam

Producer, Mixing: Xavier Bonfill
Mastering: Mikael Tobias
Artwork: Antonio Martinez
Transcription of found texts: Fei Nie

Performed by haknam:

Fei Nie: op1 (I, II), Lyra-8 (II), voice (IV)

Lorenzo Colombo: assorted percussion & found objects (I, II), boppad midi controller (I, II), eurorack modular (II), voice (IV)

Xavier Bonfill: field recordings (I, II, III), eurorack modular (I, II, III, IV), MPC2500 (I), Roland R5 (I), voice (II, III, IV), organelle/Pure-Data (II, III), Yamaha TX802 (II), Yamaha FB-01 (II, III), Lyra-8 (III), Nord Rack 2X (III), The Pipe (III)

Additional musicians:

Anja Nedremo: The Pipe (I, II)
Kalle Hakosalo: eurorack modular (II)

With support from KODA's cultural funds.

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