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  • KYO 'I Musik' - Cargo Records UK

    Posh Isolation

    KYO 'I Musik'

    £16.99

    Posh Isolation

    KYO 'I Musik'

    £16.99

    KYO 'I Musik' - Cargo Records UK
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    Posh Isolation

    KYO 'I Musik'

    £16.99

    I Musik' is the third piece from Kyo, a duet of Hannes Norrvide and Frederik Valentin.

    With each release the pair make a shift in the project's aesthetic equilibrium, forcing a new constellation of resonances, handing us a new beauty. 'I Musik' presents another wondrous movement in the narrative, like discovering a secret escalator that passes everything you want from a new angle.

    The melodramatic pause that their previous album circled with enthusiasm is now considered from a greater distance. Perhaps it is because we have now arrived somewhere? There is a hopeful melancholia that has come with this distance, and it is put to use to describe a scene that feels as human as it is synthetic, as if the world you know is now behind glass. Futures imagined are being recalled, futures undiscovered are being explored'Norrvide and Valentin manage to encode a sense of endlessness to such processes quite casually.

    The acoustic surfaces brush electronic reflections with an understated sincerity, all of which feels whispered to you by a familiar voice in familiar phrases. There is such a quiet future being invoked on 'I Musik,' yet we don't know what this quiet may come to be defined against, or if it will come to be defined at all. It's a stillness that isn't fully grasped, and it needn't be. This is its beauty.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Universal Audio
    2. Azzurra
    3. Darkblue / Seagrey
    4. Life Digest
    5. Adding Patterns

    Side B:
    1. Johanna
    2. Urban Tactical
    3. Windbreaker
    4. Snap
    5. Data Carriers
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  • KYO 'Aktuel Musik' - Cargo Records UK

    Posh Isolation

    KYO 'Aktuel Musik'

    £14.99

    Posh Isolation

    KYO 'Aktuel Musik'

    £14.99

    KYO 'Aktuel Musik' - Cargo Records UK
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    Posh Isolation

    KYO 'Aktuel Musik'

    £14.99

    Aktuel Musik' is the second release from Kyo, a duet of Hannes Norrvide and Frederik Valentin.

    Norrvide is best known as the protagonist of synth trio Lust For Youth, though his recent solo techno productions under the guise of Norin have also been met with critical praise.

    Together with Danish music's enfant terrible, Valentin, whose musical history is as difficult to trace as it is to comprehend, Kyo is a project nourished by the orbit of two individuals around impassioned collectives.

    Following on from their Posh Isolation debut, 'Potentiel Musik,' 'Aktuel Musik' presents eight pieces of emotive and luminesced experimentation. Utilising electronics, acoustic motifs, and aching instrumentation for'most prominently'woodwind and piano, Kyo softly unfold the structures that bind their work to the many genres being addressed.

    Romantic synth lines submerge free jazz drumming, playfully scattering an appeal to the cerebral in the sensuous. The most brilliant aspect of this lies in one of the record's most pointed qualities: the incredibly subtle use of dissonance, which compresses the enveloping sense of introspection in 'Aktuel Musik' into diamond form. The whispered field recordings corral the moments of listless instrumentation into snapshots of a cosmic metropolis.

    This is most keenly felt in the orchestral swells that fall away to reveal a soloist on a decaying pedestal, improvising their fate. These acts are invariably swept into dazzling marches that propel 'Aktuel Musik' with the gentle force of wide-eyed exploration.

    Kyo's 'Aktuel Musik' carries the listener away with finesse, but always with the wit to withhold the destination. If 'aktuel music' is 'current music,' then what one may behold in Kyo's work is a new future. The present is beautiful.

    Tracklisting:
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