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Translucid

by Luka Schuurman

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A Million Empty Square Kilometres of Clouds 02:45
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The Moon Looks Down on You and Smiles 02:48
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Windwalker 05:27
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In Lack of a Loss for Words 04:02
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Mistlands 05:18
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Patience 01:50
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No Thousand Shades of Indigo Blue Could Equal What I Felt for You 04:23
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Aqua-Acoustic Monuments Dissolve 06:13
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about

TRANSLUCID could be viewed as a half album, the rest of it is completed by the sensation of the wind and the sounds of the surroundings. A flight over the deserted landscape of a ghostly land full of swirling cycles and textures, all pieces are either improvised or composed on the spot and all of them feature loops to some degree, be it just as a background or completely based on them.

It became an album that completely took its own turn and ended up very differently than I expected, which is funny for something I got so involved in. It reflects on a period when I suddenly had so much more time, but so much less inspiration coming from outside of me, and it urged me to take inspiration from inside more so than on previous albums which was quite a challenge. TRANSLUCID is also the first album I mixed mostly analog, with my hands physically on the board. This physicality is possibly what made the album start living its own life; the airy touch of the mixing, the layered use of my own voice and the way the music blends with realtime sounds.

The CD artwork features hidden images: the cover appears and disappears depending on temperature and the inside of the sleeve comes to life when you move the CD around like a spotlight in the darkness.

ENJOY!

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“Een wederom bijzonder stemmig album.”
- Ben Taffijn (Nieuwe Noten)
www.nieuwenoten.nl?p=14237

credits

released September 17, 2021

Everything was performed, recorded and mixed by me using electric guitar, piano, voice, noise, looping and field recordings.

Tracks 1 - 7 were recorded on days and nights between summer and winter 2020 - 2021 at Volta, Amsterdam.
Track 8 was recorded in summer 2020 at Studio MAPA, Haarlem on their beautiful 1928 "Brecht" piano.
Additional noise and ambience was recorded at home in Amsterdam.

Graphic design and photography by Luka Schuurman Ontwerp.
Printing & package production by Puntgaaf Drukwerk (Leiden, NL)
The typeface Minérale was designed by Thomas Huot-Marchand / 205TF.

Many thanks to:

Aida Martins Dias
David Jansen
Erik Schuurman
Geert van der Beek
Ide van Heiningen
Loek Suntjens (digital media productions)
Studio MAPA Nederland
Virág Dezsö
Volta Amsterdam

for equipment, space, time, energy, feedback, support and kindness.

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Luka Schuurman Amsterdam, Netherlands

Guitarist, composer of experimental music, improviser and graphic designer from Amsterdam. Guitarist in Halli Crigi:
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