Label: BIBLIOTEK – Nr. 1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country: Sweden
Released: 21 Jun 2021
Genre: Jazz, Non-Music, Pop
Style: Spoken Word, Avant-garde Jazz, Field Recording, Poetry, Bossa Nova
Modernism's most important innovation? To break up the portrayal into facets, to tell with the help of corresponding fragments. The people in Picasso's painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon are seen from several angles at the same time, the flow of John Dos Passos' novel The 42nd Parallel consists of fiction, autobiography and news preambles. The technique was taken on to other areas: film (the way of cutting), audio plays for radio, text-sound compositions. Important works of music and contemporary history such as Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain: Please Kill Me and Jonathon Green: Days In the Life are large-scale examples of how stories can be constructed from hundreds of voices, separate but working together.
A stereoscopic image consists of two anaglyphs. Put them on top of each other, or bring them together on the retina with the help of 3D glasses, and the image takes on an increased depth, a different presence. During the walk through the anaglyph park, we hear different voices, fragments of different conversations. But they are parts of a larger story, a number of microcosmic fragments that together form the macrocosm that is the Anaglyph Park.
Multi-instrumentalist Petter Herbertsson's music and Karin Christensen's texts, sung or read by poets such as Ann Jäderlund, Martti Soutkari and Ulrika Revenäs Strollo create a sounding, sounding environment to step into, to stay in and to think about. What kind of buildings are surrounded by the park, what kind of people are cared for or neglected there? Music's paradoxical ability to evoke images for the inner eye becomes unusually evident in this simultaneously fragile and energetic soundscape. I think of a shattered glass palace, of a hoarfrost morning with slanted light around black, spreading branches.
And I'm thinking of what I would liken Anaglyph Park to to explain to someone who hasn't heard the record yet how urgent and rewarding it is. It cannot be compared to any existing work of word and sound art, the imagination can stretch one step further: imagine Gunnar Ekelöf's echo chamber for the long poem En Mölnaelegi set to music by a Robert Wyatt who at the time was in good touch with his Canterbury pop past. In this dreamed intersection is the Anaglyph Park. (Mint / New)
Tracklist
A1 Intro 1:55
A2 I fontänen 2:11
A3 Omlottliven 1:31
A4 Hugget 3:53
A5 Denna sommar 3:38
A6 Understrykningar 2:30
A7 Vatten tränger fram 2:41
B1 Två galler 5:04
B2 Vattnets kullkastande spegel 3:11
B3 Myntspottarfontänen 3:13
B4 En burk med obehagligt knäckande ljud 3:32
B5 Hennes profil 3:21
