Haarvöl
The Subliminal Paths
*70 copies limited edition*
Haarvöl – electronicsEventless Plot – piano, objects, field recordings, tapes, electronics
Seeking the intimacy of silence
Haarvöl's fifth album for the label, departing from their previous trilogy. The work draws inspiration from the silence and solitude experienced during the heavy Portuguese pandemic lockdowns, while celebrating the act of coming together again - and is the first Haarvöl record composed live in the same room rather than by exchanging files at distance. Seven pieces of drone microsound and ambient electroacoustic writing whose titles describe a quiet, indecipherable tone under post-real time.
Bombinate
*2022 stock. 200 copies limited edition* After releasing Indite at Moving Furniture Records (April of 2015), the first one with MFR but the band’s second album, Haarvöl began a series of conceptual, somehow interconnected projects, restricting the boundaries of the sonic ambience to a very concise one. This long process gave birth to three albums, each one having a very particular sonic approach but knitted in a personal Haarvöl sound idiosyncrasy, which gives the trilogy a thread that intertwi…
Indite
Composed during 2014, Haarvöl's second album consolidates the Portuguese trio's writing practice: a non-hierarchical compositional grammar where analogue, digital and electronic sources sit on equal footing, threaded with field recordings as structural rather than illustrative material. The trio favours density over experimentation for its own sake, building rigorously detailed cinematic textures whose internal consistency works through resonant correspondences rather than repetition.
Dream Sequences Volume 1 Orphax Reframed
First compilation in a series where other musicians reframe pieces from Orphax's ongoing Dream Sequence cycle, an open-ended sequence of experimental ambient and drone works. Haarvöl, Jos Smolders and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) each take a different Dream Sequence as point of departure, returning quiet contemplative re-readings that fold their own languages into the source. A study in remix-as-translation across the Dutch and Portuguese electronic-experimental axes.
The Oblivion's Wordless Knot
* Edition of 100. CD + Booklet * CD self-released by Haarvöl with music created for the commissioned audio/visual work "The Oblivion's Wordless Knot" for The Family Film Project in Porto, November 2017. Comes with photo booklet in lovely 6 panel artwork. The media times of our self-absorved present seek instantaneity. A time that cancels time. Times that affirm forgetfulness as the necessary matrix for the perpetuation of the present. A present time that makes a continuous act of presence.
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Ridge Of Humming Spoils
Final volume of Haarvöl's trilogy. After the noisy beginning of Bombinate and the move toward the periphery of Peripherad Debris, the trio arrives at the frontier as a psychoanalytic empty signifier: an edge that holds both interior and exterior. The album is built from what they call 'whispering remains', material left behind by previous compositional decisions, here treated as a vantage point looking both backward and forward. Drone microsound at the limit of the project's own grammar.
Peripherad Debris
Second album in Haarvöl's trilogy, picking up where Bombinate left off. Where the earlier work announced its sonic intention (bombinate, to hum), Peripherad Debris turns toward the conceptual periphery and to remnants of what has already been said: away from the centre, toward the outer turbulence where residual materials remain most stimulating. The album moves between quasi-ambient stillness and dense mass-sound nearly turning to noise, holding all positions in the same hesitant qualifier.