Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Recordings from the Åland Islands // LP newly pressed and fully stocked
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Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Recordings from the Åland Islands
LP newly pressed and fully stocked. CD & digital also available.
Hi friends, Recordings from the Åland Islands is back in print and at the warehouse ready to ship. We're happy to have it back in stock just in time to celebrate it's (almost) 1 Year Anniversary.
"With trickles of piano, synth, and viola, the Los Angeles-based collaborators shape a tranquil vision of a Nordic landscape that feels just beyond the edge of reality." - Pitchfork
((( photo by Joyce Kim )))
Memories from the Åland Islands
We've also been dabbling with longer form, interactive features on our website to help our artists tell their stories and are proud to present the next offering- a special "In Conversation" piece dedicated to the release which includes photos from the islands and the recording sessions along with Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer in conversation.
((( photo by Elizabeth Weinberg )))
...about Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer...
The combination of modular synthesizer and viola is an uncommon one, but Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer manage to create a distinctive dyad that comes together with grace and truth. They’ve accomplished this by bringing much more than their respective axes to the table. Years of collaboration, cohabitation, shared experience, and separate but equally inspired commitments to utilitarian cultural work bind their disparate timbres together into a singular aesthetic reality.
The two artists met, appropriately, as members of a large ensemble performing Terry Riley’s “In C,” for an annual concert organized by Bitchin Bajas at Chicago modern music hub Constellation. Honer & Chiu had been living and working in Chicago for a long time, both active members of the notoriously interconnected improvisational and experimental music scenes, but they were somehow previously unintroduced. Chiu’s musical CV to that point included work with bands like Icy Demons and Chandeliers, but he was mostly known for his visual and graphic design work as Some All None. Honer had primarily worked as an instructor in Chicago, as well as a member of the ensemble Quartet Datura. In 2014, a year after their first collaboration, together, they decided to migrate to Los Angeles to continue developing their respective careers and crafts in sunnier climes.
Relocation to Los Angeles has proven to be fruitful for both artists. Honer has since become a first-call session player for the likes of Adrian Younge and Beyoncé. She’s also played on recordings by Chloe x Halle, Angel Olsen, Fleet Foxes, and Stanley Clarke, among others, including five recordings with Grammy nominations. Along with her session work, Honer is on the music faculty at California State University. Chiu has expanded his visual work in numerous capacities, in addition to becoming an active intersectional community organizer, and refocusing his musical practice to electronic music composition and sound art. He’s also become an Assistant Professor at Otis College of Art & Design; has exhibited/performed at The Getty Center, LACMA, and other distinguished locales; has become a resident programmer for Dublab; and has generated a strong unit of regular musical collaborators that includes Celia Hollander, Booker Stardrum, Ben Babbitt, Dustin Wong, Takako Minekawa, and Sam Prekop. Chiu has also designed album artwork for several International Anthem releases, including Angel Bat Dawid's Transition East, Dos Santos's City of Mirrors, Jeff Parker's Forfolks, and JP's Myspace Beats.
*Deluxe Vinyl Package*
Bread & Butter color vinyl
Recordings from the Åland Islands comes on a 160-gram vinyl LP (pressed by Smashed Plastic in Chicago) inside a heavyweight reverse board jacket, with 12-page insert booklet, IARC obi strip, and dome-patterned inner-sleeve.
Order a copy via our Bandcamp page today!
*Color vinyl sold out in the US. Remaining copies ship from EU, & UK*
*Classic Black vinyl is sold out in the UK. Remaining orders ship from US & EU*
Distribution via RedEye for US, Canada, North & South America
This album will also be available on Compact Disc (in a deluxe 4-panel digipack), on Classic Black Vinyl (same specs as above), and for independent retailers only, worldwide, an indie exclusive limited edition color vinyl variant [SOLD OUT].
Retailers in the United States or Canada or anywhere else inside of North, South and Central America... Please reach out to your sales rep at RedEye Worldwide if you are interested in making wholesale purchases of this album, or any other album in our catalog. Don't yet have a RedEye rep? Please just reach out to us and we'll get you hooked up!
Distribution via !K7 for Europe, UK, Australia, and ROW
On all the same formats mentioned above, this album will be distributed by our good friends at !K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Australia, Asia, and everywhere else in the world outside of North & South America.
If you are a retailer or store with questions about wholesale or are just looking to get some of our records... we'd like to make things as easy for you as possible, please do not hesitate to reach out!!!
