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01. Kasper Bjorke Quartet - Line Of Life (Prologue)
02. Kasper Bjorke Quartet - Seminom Non Seminom
03. Kasper Bjorke Quartet - CT
04. Kasper Bjorke Quartet - 50 11
05. Kasper Bjorke Quartet - Neurons
06. Kasper Bjorke Quartet - Dur For Vitus
07. Kasper Bjorke Quartet - Paramount
08. Kasper Bjorke Quartet - Os
09. Kasper Bjorke Quartet - 061016
10. Kasper Bjorke Quartet - Contemplation
11. Kasper Bjorke Quartet - The Antiphon (Epilogue)
ARTIST
TITLE
The Fifty Eleven Project
FORMAT
3LP BOX

LABEL
CATALOG #
KOM 393LP KOM 393LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/19/2018

Kompakt presents a new LP and audio-visual venture by Danish producer Kasper Bjørke and close cohorts. Epic in length but always captivating, The Fifty Eleven Project is an entirely ambient concept album that interprets and evokes the emotional rollercoaster Kasper experienced, from his cancer diagnosis and throughout the five years of regular check-ups. The week of the album release marks his second anniversary of getting the all-clear. The base of the album was composed on vintage analogue synthesizers, reverbs, echo and sequencers, by Kasper and synth wizard Claus Norreen, in the latter's Copenhagen studio, using the computer solely as a recording device. The violins, violas and cellos are composed and played by the Italian composer Davide Rossi, who has worked with Ennio Morricone, Jon Hopkins, Röyksopp, The Verve, and Goldfrapp. The piano parts are composed and played by Danish musician Jakob Littauer (of Kompakt label-mates Jatoma) on an old upright piano in a studio, and on a Steinway grand piano in the concert hall at the Royal Danish Music Conservatorium. From Max Richter's Sleep (2015), Hannah Peel's Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia (2017), to much of Brian Eno's Music For Installations (2018), The Fifty Eleven Project continues in a rich vein of work by contemporary composers which explores a situation/condition, and is made with functionality and healing in mind. The visual side of The Fifty Eleven Project is made in collaboration with the culture laboratory Prxjects and acclaimed L.A.-based artist/filmmaker/photographer Justin Tyler Close, who has created art films for each of the album's tracks plus one music video including clips from all films. Furnished in an exquisite fabric box, this 180 gram 3-LP clear vinyl box is presented by cover art created by world-renowned artist Landon Metz, further cementing the release's multidisciplinary links to the art world.