Amarok, CD, 2010
"Amarok is probably one of the more isolationist and spookiest work I've ever done"
Francisco Lopez, March 2009
This is Keep Adding's first collaboration with Glacial Movements Records and Francisco Lopez. Amarok is set to release in 2010.
Francisco Lopez is known all over the world as one of the main figures of contemporary experimental music. He has performed in hundreds of live projects and sound-sets in 60 countries of 5 continents and his huge discography has been released by more than 200 labels all over the world. His musical universe moves from human-ear limits to the deepest abysses of sonorous power and it is mostly composed of field recordings caught along the wildest areas of Earth or between the sounds of the industrial world.
Amarok, design
For Amarok two years of hard work have been employed using sounds and processed field recordings. It's a unequalled conceptual soundscape in this artist's huge discography and it perfectly joins to Glacial Movements aesthetics. After a few seconds from the track beginning we are dipped into an arctic trip which lasts more than an hour and in which tangled weavings in a masterly fashion handled by the Spanish artist appear, develop and dissolve. Gusts of arctic wind, the Amarok's wheezing breath (Amarok is the name of a gigantic wolf in Inuit mythology) and the sense of loss in the polar night are only some of the sensations that this cryogenic hallucinatory acoustic is able to evoke.