"love is a concept we misunderstand but if I really try maybe I get it towards the end..."
Peace can seem like one of those unattainable, intangible concepts especially in the universal sense but one can hope and one can ask questions and one can start with loving ourselves and others. TWÏNS (the musical project of Berlin-based artist Miro Denck) reflects on the inner conflict and need to be better humans on "Peace", the first single from their upcoming album "The Human Jazz", set to drop on April 28th (2022) via Earth Libraries, is a disarming, nostalgic, moving bit of psychedlia floating on organ / mellotron-esque tones, bending electric guitar notes that feel like something between slide and Hawaiian guitar giving "Peace" a world view. Denck's poetry and ascending melodies pull you in. It is as if you are stepping into another world, TWÏNS uses the metaphor of nature, of rivers flowing and my deep fears hope that our natural tendency is to move toward peace and not away from it. I know one thing, peace and love start at home and if we all found it, we would have world peace wouldn't we.
Speaking on "Peace," Denck shares:
"To be honest, this is one of the most intimate songs on the record which generally is one revolving around break-up and trying to tackle impermanence, and as such it’s certainly the one where I felt most vulnerable recording it. It’s really nothing else than self-therapy, and other than that me trying to communicate with someone through the means of a song when I couldn’t in real life. And thus actually postponing said communication. In a way maybe like writing someone a letter, putting all your effort into trying to make it as beautiful and honest as possible and then never sending it. It already takes a lot of weight of your shoulders — and it kept doing so every time I listened to it, repeating my lament, my excuses and my hopes like a mantra.
Like all the other songs on the record, I recorded and produced it all by myself. In that sense it was to me what recording music alone has always been to me, retreating to a safe space and opening up completely. Experimentation, trial and error until I found the language I was looking for to say the things I wanted to say, but for most part it’s sort of a cleansing, spiritual experience in which I feel closer to the world around me as well as within me, closer to love, closer to life."
[He hopes listeners take the following away from the track:]
"Whatever it may be is what it is. I don’t believe in telling people how they should perceive art. It’s a very subjective experience. In any way I hope that they can connect and that it gives them something that makes them feel alive. "
"To be honest, this is one of the most intimate songs on the record which generally is one revolving around break-up and trying to tackle impermanence, and as such it’s certainly the one where I felt most vulnerable recording it. It’s really nothing else than self-therapy, and other than that me trying to communicate with someone through the means of a song when I couldn’t in real life. And thus actually postponing said communication. In a way maybe like writing someone a letter, putting all your effort into trying to make it as beautiful and honest as possible and then never sending it. It already takes a lot of weight of your shoulders — and it kept doing so every time I listened to it, repeating my lament, my excuses and my hopes like a mantra.
Like all the other songs on the record, I recorded and produced it all by myself. In that sense it was to me what recording music alone has always been to me, retreating to a safe space and opening up completely. Experimentation, trial and error until I found the language I was looking for to say the things I wanted to say, but for most part it’s sort of a cleansing, spiritual experience in which I feel closer to the world around me as well as within me, closer to love, closer to life."
[He hopes listeners take the following away from the track:]
"Whatever it may be is what it is. I don’t believe in telling people how they should perceive art. It’s a very subjective experience. In any way I hope that they can connect and that it gives them something that makes them feel alive. "
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://twinsband.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/miroschnee/
https://open.spotify.com/track/5dbDMlUEfHzjJGlm7l3zxO
TWÏNS were born on the ocean's edge, where the worlds collide and love begins.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://twinsband.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/miroschnee/
https://open.spotify.com/track/5dbDMlUEfHzjJGlm7l3zxO
TWÏNS were born on the ocean's edge, where the worlds collide and love begins.
No comments:
Post a Comment