Habitat, by J Foerster / N Kramer

Habitat

by J Foerster / N Kramer

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コモペット I play this album while on my lunch break. it's a pleasant album.💜also play this at home on the daily. Favorite track: Botanique.

Emil Sayfullin A transcendental experience that can surprisingly shift your usual perception. Music that lives with you as long as you live with it.

Thank you! Favorite track: Botanique.

Brick Cheese Wonderfully warm and inviting. Favorite track: Air Flows.

mescal A familiar and strange atmosphere. Trance-inducing. Favorite track: Moon Corridor.

Charlie Moonbeam A special and intricate microscope on the nuance of homespace. Favorite track: Curved Hallway.

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*"Casa Molto Normale"cover art original painting by Ettore Sottsass.

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*"Casa Molto Normale"cover art original painting by Ettore Sottsass.

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*edition of 100 3color-in-color variant: : brown, green, cloudy clear
*includes 12x12 print on rough/uncoated stock
*jacket printed on rough/uncoated stock.
*"Casa Molto Normale" cover art original painting by Ettore Sottsass.

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*each shell individually hand-marbled, each one is unique
*4panel JCard printed on rough/uncoated stock
*"Casa Molto Normale"cover art original painting by Ettore Sottsass.

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1.	Entrance 06:52	buy track
2.	Air Flows 04:55	buy track
3.	Botanique 09:10	buy track
4.	The Fountain 01:24	buy track
5.	Four Glass Steps 04:14	buy track
6.	Moon Corridor 05:31	buy track
7.	Curved Hallway 04:42	buy track
8.	Levitation Room 04:17	buy track

about

Habitat, an environmental music collaboration by Berlin based composer Niklas Kramer and percussionist Joda Foerster, is inspired by the drawings of Italian architect Ettore Sottsass. Each of the eight tracks represents a room in an imaginary building.

In Habitat the duo layers, loops and merges sonic textures and patterns into fluid blocks without the restraint of statics. African log drum, Bolivian chajchas, vibraphone, kalimba and various other percussion instruments are processed, pitched, harmonised and filtered through modular synth and script based sample cutting to form a collage of asynchronous layers.

By using acoustic instruments and expanding their sound into abstract shapes, Habitat evokes a vague intimacy, a curious state of comfort in the unknown.

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released April 9, 2021

_ Written and produced during summer 2020 by Joda Foerster & Niklas Kramer
_ Instruments used: African log drum, Bolivian chajchas, vibraphone, kalimba and various other percussion instruments, Various Sythesizers
_ Production techniques: live recording, script based sample cutting and processing (norns), analog tape bouncing
_ Composition: No grid, asynchronous loops, driven by textures
_ Mastered by Matthew "Matthewdavid" McQueen
_ Artwork used with permission by Ettore Sottsass.
"Casa Molto Normale" - Technica Mista Su Carta - original painting 61x46cm - VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021

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