Franciska Og Emilie - S/t LPJonas Torstensen returns to Discreet Music with the second Franciska album, following up the much praised Tryghed (Discreet Music 12) that was released in early 2023. Since Tryghed came out, Franciska has quickly become an established forefront of a new, young generation of Scandinavian experimental DIY musicians. This time a joint effort with his longtime friend and collaborator Camille Helt Haarder, the new album is dedicated to their shared

exceptional lyrical take on Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman

and acoustic miniatures all held together by a biomorphic DNA strand that resides somewhere in a subterranean alien cocoon

Anthony Allman keyboard

Ascension was recorded less than a year after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and four months after the assassination of Malcolm X

These are not the kinds of tools you’d think would be equipped for Autechre’s music

in that respect

processed reality

A noted studio had reserved three days for a Thollot recording session

but from this vantage

but I don't need to

luring you in with motivational rhetoric and a transparent facade of tranquility

others like displaced echoes of a day long gone