The Unknown City, by Emile Bojesen

The Unknown City

by Emile Bojesen

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Music from another planet, or the future of this one.

Drawing on the sounds and techniques of French electroacoustic music from the 70s and 80s, The Unknown City is a new album by Emile Bojesen, which could be conceived of as a rootlessly de-naturalised correlate to Bernard Parmegiani's De Natura Sonorum (1975), or a misremembered and re-imagined soundtrack to a favourite childhood film, René Laloux's Les Maîtres du Temps (1982).

Partly provoked by Ansgar Allen's forthcoming dystopian novella, Wretch (Schism Press), Bojesen's second solo album was composed from approximately 60 segments of sound, captured while reading, and influenced by the feel of different sections, specific words, and phrases from the book. These segments were then organised and ‘performed’ in a semi-improvised manner, through triggers and overlaps, recording the result. These recordings were then split in to two songs with minimal further processing.

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released May 1, 2020

The Unknown City was composed, recorded, and mixed by Emile Bojesen in March and April 2020.

It was mastered by Michael Anthony Wright.

The artwork is an original painting by Snowskull, 'We Play Bodies - Stop // Start' (2011). www.snowskullart.com

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Hoopoe Industries England, UK

Hoopoe Industries was founded by Emile Bojesen and Ansgar Allen in 2020 and is a home to music of a variety of disciplines, often implicitly or explicitly relating to written work.

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