Aiming for Enrike
Having toured the world and delivered one of the pandemic’s most legendary live streams – including bodybuilders and furniture smashing at the old American embassy in Oslo, Aiming for Enrike started working on new music in 2020.
Now ready with their fifth album Empty Airports, the tunes flourish further through atmospheric expressions, into floating, minimalistic, electronic, and ambient soundscapes.
Empty Airports was composed and recorded in reflection of the quiet Covid19 life during the patience testing lockdown months of 2020 and 2021. Not only is this the duo's longest album ever, but it's also their first double album. The songs are inspired by and belong somewhere between Thom Yorke, Ashra, Nils Frahm, King Crimson in the 80s, Jon Hopkins and Steve Reich.
The cover art for Empty Airports is the finishing touch that elevates the album to a complete piece of art. Thor Merlin's unique artwork is a generatively designed collage consisting of clippings from 19 digital paintings and 10 images created with shader programming in Sakuhin: an open-source program that Merlin also uses for live coding of visuals for Aiming for Enrike. The album cover's individual images will be available NFTs.
Guitarist Simen Følstad Nilsen says: "Minimalism, which has always been an important part of our expression, is now cultivated to a much greater extent. When the rush to fulfill musical expectations is abounded, it gives the music more space to become more hypnotic and mesmerizing than before."
Empty Airports is another fantastic release from the forward-leaning duo, which justifies that Aiming for Enrike lives entirely in their own universe.
Empty Airports will be released on Jansen Records on January 20th, 2023.
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Music for Working Out
Alternative & Indie - Released by Pekula Records on 10 Jan 2020
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Don't Hassle the Hoff
Alternative & Indie - Released by Pekula Records on 14 Jun 2019
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The Rats and the Children
Electronic - Released by Jansen Records on 9 Dec 2022
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Las Napalmas
Alternative & Indie - Released by Pekula Records on 27 Oct 2017
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Infinity Rider
Alternative & Indie - Released by Pekula Records on 13 Sep 2019
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Christmas Eve
Alternative & Indie - Released by Pekula Records on 24 Dec 2019
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Newspeak
Alternative & Indie - Released by Name Music on 18 Mar 2016
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Hard Dance Brainia
Experimental - Released by Pekula Records on 15 Mar 2019
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Aiming for Enrike on Audiotree Live
Alternative & Indie - Released by Audiotree Music on 5 Nov 2019
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Billion Year Contract
Alternative & Indie - Released by Name Music on 15 Apr 2016
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Undead Horse of Thunder and Metal
Alternative & Indie - Released by Pekula Records on 18 Oct 2019
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Diving Within
Alternative & Indie - Released by Pekula Records on 16 Aug 2019
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Front Runner
Alternative & Indie - Released by Pekula Records on 29 Sep 2017
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