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- Christina Vantzou
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- No. 5
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- Kranky
- Catalogue Number
- krank235
- Release Date
- 11 November 2022
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Fleeting configurations of piano, wind, strings, synthetics, and field recordings, inspired by the Greek isles. Previous albums adored by the likes of The Quietus, Exclaim, Drowned In Sound, etc. For fans of Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch soundtracks, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, and Global Communication. While on the island of Syros in the Aegean Sea for a film festival performance, Christina Vantzou experienced what she characterized as “a moment of focus”—a specific vision for the sprawl of raw recordings she’d been amassing for her fifth album. Upon relocating to the Cycladic island of Ano Koufonisi, she situated herself outside at a patio table with a laptop and headphones, taking brief breaks to swim, and began the “reductive process” of shaving and shaping the source material into uneasy but lyrical movements, alternately austere and adorned with strange inflections: glottal groaning, cavernous water, glittering eddies of modular synth, languorous silences. Mixing the pieces herself without outsourcing to an engineer compounded the intimacy and autobiographical dimension of the music; she refers to No5 as “almost like a first album.” Drawing on sessions staged in February 2020, Vantzou’s editing instincts emphasize process and isolation, spotlighting resonance and restraint, liquidity and long tails. Fleeting configurations of piano, wind, strings, synthetics, and field recordings, these are spaces as much as compositions, surreal grottos of shifting light, suffused with a sense of invisible divinity. Although seventeen musicians appear on the record, the proceedings feel minimalist and malleable, sculpted from interstitial moments and oblique synchronicities. The definition of a composer as “one who joins things” is here both plumbed and proven; Vantzou describes No5 as “a letting go,” a place of “soft borders,” unfixed and undefinable.
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Enter
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Distance
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Reclining Figures
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Kimona I
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Tongue Shaped Rock
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Memory of Future Melody
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Kimona II
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Surreal Presence for SH and FM
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No 5
Christina Vantzou
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- Christina Vantzou
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- Observations, edits, a cure for restlessness
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- Catalogue Number
- LE134
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- 18 October 2023
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- Red Eel Dream
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- 22 September 2022
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- 1 September 2022
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- No. 4
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- KRANK215
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- 6 April 2018
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- Some Limited and Waning Memory
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- Catalogue Number
- 192562254899
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- 1 March 2018
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- No. 3
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- Catalogue Number
- krank199
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- 16 October 2015
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- Shadow Sun
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- Catalogue Number
- 889845641094
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- 4 September 2015
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- krank186
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- 24 February 2014
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