the intrepid composer and field recordist jacob kirkegaard is no stranger to perilous and hostile regions of the world. his 4 rooms invoked the radioactive decay through the amplification of architectural resonance in chernobyl, ukraine, and he has ventured to the arctic environments of greenland on a number of occasions to document that barren, icy territory. his recurrent use of shadow and mystery through his work both as metaphor and as extended sonic technique reflects the complex, existential conditions that cross-contaminate what we consider civilization and what we consider wilderness. waste disposal, firearms, the decomposition of dead bodies, the eerie stillness of morgues. these have also been the source material in kirkegaard’s formidable work.;with snowblind, kirkegaard turns to history, and a poetic, failed attempt for a team of swedish explorers to reach the north pole by balloon in the late 19th century. perhaps driven by blind adventurism, perhaps consumed by his own delusions, s.a. andrée launched this ill-fated flight in july 1897, registering only two days in the air before crashing into the ice and ultimately failing to navigate the frigid waters and ice floes. yet documentation of their expedition – photographic, scientific, and diaristic – survived, to be discovered some thirty years after their deaths.;i wanted to created a cold and hostile album, where there is no escape, no warmth and no happy ending, as kirkegaard explains about snowblind. yet, i wanted to leave out any immediate drama. it is the creeping shock, the icy feeling from realizing what has been lost and that there’s no escape.;yes, snowblind is a very bleak album, but one that eschews the isolationist, long-form drone of conceptually similar works by thomas köner, lustmord, werkbund, and lull with interconnected constellations of cryptic tone, thrumming reverberation, arctic bluster, and a plethora of harrowing sonic proclamations.
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