Aiming For Enrike - Empty Airports
Having toured the world and delivered one of the pandemic’s most legendary live streams – including bodybuilders and furniture smashing at the old American embassy in Oslo, Aiming for Enrike started working on new music in 2020.
Now ready with their fifth album Empty Airports, the tunes flourish further through atmospheric expressions, into floating, minimalistic, electronic, and ambient soundscapes.
Empty Airports was composed and recorded in reflection of the quiet Covid19 life during the patience testing lockdown months of 2020 and 2021. Not only is this the duo's longest album ever, but it's also their first double album. The songs are inspired by and belong somewhere between Thom Yorke, Ashra, Nils Frahm, King Crimson in the 80s, Jon Hopkins and Steve Reich.
The cover art for Empty Airports is the finishing touch that elevates the album to a complete piece of art. Thor Merlin's unique artwork is a generatively designed collage consisting of clippings from 19 digital paintings and 10 images created with shader programming in Sakuhin: an open-source program that Merlin also uses for live coding of visuals for Aiming for Enrike. The album cover's individual images will be available NFTs.
Guitarist Simen Følstad Nilsen says: "Minimalism, which has always been an important part of our expression, is now cultivated to a much greater extent. When the rush to fulfill musical expectations is abounded, it gives the music more space to become more hypnotic and mesmerizing than before."
Empty Airports is another fantastic release from the forward-leaning duo, which justifies that Aiming for Enrike lives entirely in their own universe.
INFO
Aiming For Enrike - Empty Airports
Art. no: JANSENS139LP
Release date: January 20th, 2023
Tracklist:
Streaming
1. Empty Airports pt. 1
2. Empty Airports pt. 2
3. Empty Airports pt. 3
4. The Rats and The Children
5. Feel No Threat/Absent Lovers
6. Slopes
7. The Castle
8. Square Machine
9. System 0
10. Pulse Fragments
LP
1. Empty Airports
2. The Rats and the Children
3. Feel No Threat/Absent Lovers
4. Slopes
5. The Castle
6. Square Machine
7. System 0
8. Pulse Fragments
All music written and performed by Aiming for Enrike
Tobias Ørnes Andersen: Drums, percussion, synths and drum machines
Simen Følstad Nilsen: Guitars and synths
Recorded by Roar Nilsen at Nabolaget Studios
Mixed by Simen Følstad Nilsen
Produced by Simen Følstad Nilsen
Mastered by Christian Obermayer at Strype Audio
Artwork by Thor Merlin
Buy Aiming For Enrike’s «Music For Working Out»
«It’s with no small amounts of (effect pedals) that Aiming For Enrike channel their boundless energy and bottomless invention here … (they’re) every bit as interested in shaking your arse as expanding your mind»
– Kerrang
Photo by Veronica Van Groningen
