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But All Spiked
Artist
Vanity Productions
ReleaseProduct
But All Spiked
Label
Posh Isolation
Catalogue Number
PI242
Release Date
October 9, 2020

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Press Release

At the heart of Christian Stadsgaard's solo project Vanity Productions is a voracious emotive charge that's forever tempered by an austere and self-disciplined approach to composition. His new album for Posh Isolation, the label and project that he authors with Loke Rahbek, is the most thoroughgoing realisation of the tendencies and processes captured in the guise of Vanity Productions to date. Entitled 'But All Spiked,' the album presents a suite of five pieces that veer surely yet subtly through a complimentary range of acousmatic environments. Of his recent works its perhaps 'Only The Stars Come Out At Night' that most resembles a preliminary route in to the arena of his new album. Sometimes overtly, though often with a cryptic veneer, he modulates a central refrain across each piece that comes to engulf the stereo field with different intentions. Citing the influence of American minimalist composers, Stadsgaard has refigured some of the compositional practices towards his particular context and oeuvre. A medley of strings and electronics waver in and out of place on the opening piece, 'White Ribbons On The Ceiling,' introducing the careful preparation and treatment of sound as a means of articulating a profound though compassionate melancholy. The album is drenched in sorrow and seeks its expression with great economy. And it's around this detail that there's perhaps some slight indication of the album's turbulent personal context and the major life changes that underpin it. Stadsgaard's restraint proposes a wealth of wistful invocations. This control, once combined with the subdued presence of his penchant for glaring noise, is what organises 'But All Spiked' into the meditative and dynamic work that it is.

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Digital Track List

  1. 1 White Ribbons On The Ceiling 8:01 Buy

    White Ribbons On The Ceiling

  2. 2 Hair Painted With Copper 6:48 Buy

    Hair Painted With Copper

  3. 3 Devils On The Back 4:07 Buy

    Devils On The Back

  4. 4 Marble Collar 5:11 Buy

    Marble Collar

  5. 5 But All Spiked 9:16 Buy

    But All Spiked

Vanity Productions

Posh Isolation

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