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A day in a forest can yield an eternity of song.
quelques endroits is the debut release of Liège-based sound artist and composer françois vanka. The album takes its title from French for “a few places”, like those encountered on winter walks, at forest edges, and in river valleys.
françois vanka is a forager, collecting fragments as he encounters them: nights in the woods, mornings in a tent, and afternoons that begin as five-minute guitar jams in a pine-scented breeze.
He describes his approach to composition the way one might describe walking through the wilderness: “getting out of the paths, without any structure or plan, but a desire to discover and being surprised by the choices I make.” Like how memory outlines a specific location within a continuous landscape, he pulls out moments from the slipstream of time.
A sequence recalls a lone day in the Hautes Fagnes of East Belgium. Wind and water course through the trees. A flock of Eurasian siskins perches overhead in a birch tree until a raven crosses the sky and scatters the gathering. “A few seconds in an entire day,” he recalls…
The record unfolds like a diary about a woodland, with françois vanka spending time in the wilderness, dreaming of understanding its wordless speech. He brings breathy, frostlike timbres and ghost notes into the conversation. Homemade instruments join in: chimes carved from elder wood, snail shells suspended from a dried mushroom, limpet shells gathered from the Opal Coast of France. Loops and piano notes drift and wander as layers coalesce and diffuse.
As the lines between making and listening blur, these few places, this present moment, are an invitation to listen. To follow a forest path deep into the mind and let the connections within the order of things stretch out like branches, like icicles, like hands on a clock, finding a closer connection to the world outside.
Released in an edition of 150 copies, the cassette features a patchwork by Julia S. Riedel made from grasses and weeds foraged on her travels, like the sounds françois picks up along the way.
Music by françois vanka
Mastered by Mathieu Savenay
Artwork by Julia S. Riedel
Layout by Joke Leonare
Words by Mariah Reodica
Release by Objects & Sounds
€16,00
in stock
A day in a forest can yield an eternity of song.
quelques endroits is the debut release of Liège-based sound artist and composer françois vanka. The album takes its title from French for “a few places”, like those encountered on winter walks, at forest edges, and in river valleys.
françois vanka is a forager, collecting fragments as he encounters them: nights in the woods, mornings in a tent, and afternoons that begin as five-minute guitar jams in a pine-scented breeze.
He describes his approach to composition the way one might describe walking through the wilderness: “getting out of the paths, without any structure or plan, but a desire to discover and being surprised by the choices I make.” Like how memory outlines a specific location within a continuous landscape, he pulls out moments from the slipstream of time.
A sequence recalls a lone day in the Hautes Fagnes of East Belgium. Wind and water course through the trees. A flock of Eurasian siskins perches overhead in a birch tree until a raven crosses the sky and scatters the gathering. “A few seconds in an entire day,” he recalls…
The record unfolds like a diary about a woodland, with françois vanka spending time in the wilderness, dreaming of understanding its wordless speech. He brings breathy, frostlike timbres and ghost notes into the conversation. Homemade instruments join in: chimes carved from elder wood, snail shells suspended from a dried mushroom, limpet shells gathered from the Opal Coast of France. Loops and piano notes drift and wander as layers coalesce and diffuse.
As the lines between making and listening blur, these few places, this present moment, are an invitation to listen. To follow a forest path deep into the mind and let the connections within the order of things stretch out like branches, like icicles, like hands on a clock, finding a closer connection to the world outside.
Released in an edition of 150 copies, the cassette features a patchwork by Julia S. Riedel made from grasses and weeds foraged on her travels, like the sounds françois picks up along the way.
Music by françois vanka
Mastered by Mathieu Savenay
Artwork by Julia S. Riedel
Layout by Joke Leonare
Words by Mariah Reodica
Release by Objects & Sounds
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