One, by Adriaan Swerts

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by Adriaan Swerts

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1.	Sleeping Mountains 03:08	buy track
2.	Saudade 04:14	buy track
3.	Translucence 05:04	buy track
4.	Fade 05:29	buy track
5.	Distant Overtones 05:06	buy track
6.	Old Shelter 03:16	buy track
7.	Endless Sea 03:08	buy track
8.	Still 06:31	buy track
9.	Broken Silence 06:49	buy track
10.	Hold On 04:36	buy track
11.	One 04:48	buy track
12.	Adieu 04:05	buy track

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Belgian composer and sound artist Adriaan Swerts announces the release of his debut full-length album "One" in collaboration with piano and coffee records – a collection of twelve deeply personal compositions that, originally, were not conceived with the idea of ever getting released but that, like shards of ice, slowly floated together and formed an island of music.

Both a life-threatening accident – which caused his disability –and the passing of his grandfather confronted Adriaan with the fragility of life. Thematically, this album deals with the eternal, life fading away, death, and the afterlife. At the same time, it attempts to celebrate the beauty of love, life, nature and all that lives on earth.

The main characteristic instruments on this album are field recordings of natural landscapes Adriaan visited, which he transformed into instruments and used almost solely to compose. The piano and other acoustic instruments such as the harmonium and strings, as old but not forgotten classical friends, are the other elements that accompany these transformed natural sounds. Icelandic glaciers, geysers, Scottish lochs, waterfalls, oceans and more all found a home on this album. In addition, Swerts uses reel-to-reel tape processing to degrade the sound of the recordings and make them sound broken – a reflection of what his body feels like.

The artwork of the album similarly reflects Adriaan's focus on the theme of the fragility of life and nature. The cracks in the ice symbolise how easily something can be broken into pieces – just like what happened to his body after his accident – but can still be a whole. In addition, Adriaan crafted a videoclip for each piece of the album through the process of cymatics – the study of visible sound vibration and the transformational nature of sound and matter. He filmed the sound vibrations caused by his music in water, unveiling beautiful and unique geometric patterns for each composition.

"One" comes out digitally and on limited edition CD on the 28th of October, featuring artwork and design by Celia Bayo.

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released October 28, 2022

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