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01. KIRA KIRA - Bonelli Underground
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02. KIRA KIRA - Fjaðurmagnea
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03. KIRA KIRA - Leave A Light On
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04. KIRA KIRA - Soothe
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05. KIRA KIRA - Let It Go
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06. KIRA KIRA - Cutthroat Roundabout
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07. KIRA KIRA - Hamar
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ARTIST
KIRA KIRA
TITLE
Feathermagnetik
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
SOUND OF A HANDSHAKE
CATALOG #
SHAKE 013CD
SHAKE 013CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
7/3/2012
Kira Kira
is the alias of Icelandic composer and audio/visual artist
Kristin Björk Kristjansdottir
, and her album
Feathermagnetik
is her third release. As a founding member of Kitchen Motors, a mischievous label and collective based on experiments in electronic music and the arts, she continually breaks boundaries between forms and genres through a repertoire that includes compositions for theater, film, dance and art installations -- as well as playful multi-disciplinary productions that exceed her work as merely a composer. Her first feature film as director and screenwriter,
Grandma Lo-Fi -- The Basement Tapes Of Sigridur Nielsdottir
has been celebrated at New York's Museum of Modern Art, SXSW and a plethora of other festivals around the world. When Kira Kira wrote the first notes of
Feathermagnetik
, she was in between homes: stranded in an icy Berlin winter, re-figuring seemingly figured-out things anew, questioning old belongings and longings and opening up to a vast new terrain. The album reflects this impulse to re-assemble lost parts and to give in to the process of transformation and re-orientation in a new and unexplored place. It is a manifestation of the strength and imperative of friendship at times of change when Kira Kira set out all her antennas to map out the firmament of this record with her friends as coordinates and lights in the night. A wild array of amazing musicians appear on
Feathermagnetik
, which was created in Berlin, Reykjavik and in the Ulappa studio on Finnish island Suomenlinna, headquarters of Kristin's closest collaborator, percussion wizard
Samuli Kosminen
, who mixed and produced the album with her as well as playing custom-made percussion, psaltery and taisho koto harp. Finnish violin wonder
Pekka Kuusisto
whistles, hums and pumps an old harmonium organ,
Borgar Magnason
, an active force with the Bedroom Community label, brings a beastly yet tender quality of rumble and drone to the mix; trumpeteer
Eirikur Orri Olafsson
, another of Kristin's closest collaborators, plays a big role on the record, layering gorgeous horns and whistles. Kitchen Motors co-conspirator
Hilmar Jensson
plays guitar, Finnish musicians
Heikki Nikula
and
Jarmo Saari
play contrabass clarinet and Theremin, German photographer
Antje Taiga Jandrig
lends a vocal presence on the closing piece of the album and
Petur Hallgrimsson
plays lapsteel.
Feathermagnetik
is crafted with Kristin's uncompromising surrender to emotions as a compass and music as a plane to either fly or float in bewildering places full of gloomy desires and graceful explorers who wander through their beguiling environment with tender curiosity. Includes a download code for bonus audio and video content.
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