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  • Stellar Burnout

    KD026

    Artist: Dan Fröberg

    Label: Kning Disk

    Artist and composer Dan Fröberg travels freely between and above borders and distinctions.
    Music, visual art, performance, video, literature; the worlds in where Fröberg inhabits and lives, and also invites his audiences to, are many and multi-facetted, but always utterly carefully composed with both an open awareness and a concentrated playfulness.

    Things and sounds are not always what they seem.
    Stellar Burnout is no exception.

    Composed and recorded in Göteborg in 2005, Stellar Burnout is no less than an audio- and visual cosmology, in where the music, in close connection to the text and visuals in the cd-booklet (as always, all done by Fröberg); provides us with a logic of its own.

    Heavenly bodies in their spheres, galaxies, stars, black holes, cosmic remembrances, confusion and configurations; the visions are painted with powerful, and sometimes even chaotically psychedelic brushes.
    A random quote from the cd-booklet: "when the motion from the space is sufficiently oblique to counteract the excess of its velocity, the two bodies move on together, and the planet appears to be directly under our feet."

    The elementary laws of physics seem to be put out of order in Stellar Burnout; time lapses occur, unexpected elements passes by, and, every now and then, emergency landings on our own brightly glowing planet.

    Field recordings from unknown places, glass instruments, guitars, drums, and the extraordinary vocals of Chinese artist Zhang Qiongfei; the listener...