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Marco Bakker
Annwfyn

Album RU 2016 on Fern Leaf label
Electronic (Ambient, Drone)

The music on this album was composed over a period of six years. Inspired by long winter walks, foggy trees and individuality, it was my intention to create a rather cold and desolate place embodied by soundscapes with cold textures, hypnotising tones, isolated moods but also some warmer feelings. Opening tracks “Ensi” (“First" in Finnish) and “Is Named Svinjar” (named after the subject of a spam mail I once received and also the first track I made for this album) are the portal towards Annwfyn, which is a mythical place in Welsh mythology. “Tendar Ljuv” (no meaning but referring to “tender love") and “Glimma” (“Shine” in Swedish) deliver some warmth and comfort to the album. “Nymolla” (a place in Sweden) sets the tone for the second part of Annwfyn: cold, desolate, ghostly. "Himinn Ljós” (no meaning but referring to “heaven light”) adds a bit of hypnotising light. Closing tracks “Ysbryd” (“spirit” in Welsh) and “Nos Calan Gaeaf” (the night before November 1st in Welsh) give the story an uncanny end. - Marco Bakker Why has such magnetic appeal the walk through the cold and homeless abstractions of Marco Bakker? Perhaps because his microcosm is zoomed in almost to the possibility to touch it; the crystals and microstructures of matter get any clearer in this possibility. Therefore the sound of the microscopic landscape has strong voice for our subconscious and incessant permanent vibration. Belief in impersonal supernatural forces is inseparably connected with our representation of the world, and our representation is always determined by our senses, and if we feel the cold and the light, then our imagination shows us a place called Annwfyn. It is the coherent narrative with decorated storyline about the journey to this place. - Fern Leaf Composed, produced and mixed by Marco Bakker between 2006 and 2012. Previously self-released under the name of Crossroads Ego. “Glimma” was featured on “Listen”, a compilation of various artists published by Duckbay in 2008.

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