Nothing left but silence, by Erik K Skodvin

Nothing left but silence

by Erik K Skodvin

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william morris julien Feel like I have traveled so far with EKS over the last 10 years or so. I can say with my hand on my heart this latest offering is one of his best. 10/10 Favorite track: A silent moment in the periphery.

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1.	Awaiting 02:44		buy track
2.	A silent moment in the periphery 08:23		buy track
3.	Quiet states of anxiousness 07:59		buy track
4.	Solemn steps 02:04		buy track
5.	Observing the lights from above 03:24		buy track
6.	The slow harvest 03:54	info	buy track
7.	A walk on the edge 03:17		buy track
8.	Dreams of a new beginning 08:33		buy track

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'Nothing left but silence' is Erik K Skodvin’s third solo album for Sonic Pieces and his most quiet to date. Subtitled as "Musical improvisations and quiet collages from the subconscious”, Skodvin reduces his instruments to guitar, reverb and amp - and creates a skeleton of eight hypnotic ragas that meanders in an eternal loop between ephemeral and singular.

Only on the horizon it’s possible to sense that Skodvin has also touched the neoclassical terrain in earlier productions - on Nothing left but silence, however, he acts as a twilight player who is not afraid of the coldness of endless space and who knows how to subjugate the shadowiness of the visible world. Carried by the noise of the amp and the occasional click of the effects pedals, a monolithic, reduced blues emerges, whose mediumistic quality nevertheless reveals that Skodvin's music always comes from the body - and as such is always searching for space. A space that - in this case - blends the vastness of the Norwegian steppe with the brittleness of American wasteland (as if Deathprod and Loren Connors were one and the same person), creating a persistent state between deceleration and absence of presence - that leads Skodvin ever closer to the inner essence of sound.

Initially recorded at Saal 3, Funkhaus, Berlin by Nils Frahm in 2015, the album has itself been subjected to silence as a forgotten relic, re-found and now released in a time where it might connect more with the contemporary state of mind. Welcome to the entrance to the periphery.

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released September 15, 2023

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Erik K Skodvin Berlin, Germany

Erik K Skodvin is a master of enveloping the listener into a world that is both monumental and suspenseful.

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Nothing left but silence

Sep 2023
Schächten

Dec 2022
The Burrow

Oct 2020
Anbessa

Sep 2020
Flare / Flame

Jan 2020
Improvisation for piano

Jan 2020
Flame

Jun 2014
Flare

Oct 2010

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