Talvekoidik
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Talvekoidik is the electronica side-project of the german musician Kai Christian Hahnewald, founding member of SKET. With his first release as Talvekoidik - an Estonian word meaning winterdawn - he offers an album with influences in Gridlock and Beefcake as well as in Scandinavian, Baltic, Arabic and African musical traditions. Talvekoidik's music is a demonstration of Kai's talent: terms of rhythmic structures supporting catchy melodies, oppositions and contrasts enriched by a Celtic feeling, alternately powerful, fragile and rough.
Electronic-based tracks originating from unconventional sound design are used to paint soundscapes oscillating between plausible and unreal, tangible and abstract. Since the release of “Spitzbergen” in 2015, Kai Hahnewald aka Talvekoidik has surely not rested, with a steady string of live performances, taking him as far as China, and intense recording sessions ensuing from 2016 to 2018. During these, he experimented and refined his techniques, a.o. the processing of field recordings.
As a result, “Within” perfectly fathoms the extremes of his art, and album with a dreamy half-melodic texture, the listener is invited to immersion: Neo-classical grandeur tracks alternate with radically intimate pieces, lavish string sounds tower above cinematic pads, key melodies and immediate sounds of nature are found throughout.
Four tracks culled from his 2007 debut and one from 2012’s “Negotiate the Distance” having been remixed or re-recorded to fit within his updated musical framework. In addition to remixes from a host of diverse guests then represents the byond: Canadian electronica artist SubtractiveLAD, obscure Etched Traumas activist Ein Profil and Leitmotiv Rainbow loosely remain within Talvekoidik’s sonic territory, while label mate Edgey cranks up rhythmic aggression – and lighten up the mood.
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