Gdańsk, POL-PAL, نابلس

by FIKTION

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1.	Gdańsk 02:58	buy track
2.	Michaní Anemou 01:17	buy track
3.	Запах Києва 02:34	buy track
4.	Boğaziçi Köprüsü 03:07	buy track
5.	Michaní Eurus 01:25	buy track
6.	نابلس‎ 05:42	buy track

about

Fiktion’s “Gdańsk, POL-PAL, نابلس” is a sonic imprint of a fictious journey, a musical collage of church organs, mechanical machines, trains, and field recordings from different regions across Europe and the Middle East, where different elements have been recorded, filtered, played back and re-recorded again.

The year is 2035 and you are on some kind of transport vehicle — a hybrid of a traditional electric train, a mechanical machine and a church organ. Twelve years ago, the European Council signed a decision to fund this railway line between Gdańsk, Poland, and Nablus, Palestine, operated by Hedjaz Jordan Railways and Al Nayzak Organization For Supportive Education and Scientific Innovation. The railway passes through 15 countries and constitutes a musical, artistic, historic and anthropologic journey. There are multiple stops along the way, with treats of local cuisine, drinks and music, as well as initiated narration by dedicated guides.

“I have always loved the authentic expression of different cultures and languages, whichever part of the world it may be. I equally love the church organ and the train. The organ as a mechanical and musical phenomenon with its machinery, pipes and additive synthesis, and the train as a source of sound and a cultural means of transport.

The recordings in this work are mostly from Poland, Ukraine, Kosovo / Serbia, Greece, Turkey and Palestine / Israel. Boundaries between countries are a way for people to develop identities. They create community and bind people together in language, culture and art. At the same time, this process also leads to simplifications and a diminishment of nuances and tolerance. This is why I think education and contacts across boundaries are vital for a constructive society to mature.

These three aspects — the sonic, the sociological and the mechanical — form the basis of this album and this piece of sonic art.”

credits

released February 28, 2020

P&C Elektroakustisk Produktion
Artwork and master by Gustaf Lundh
Vinyl press at Beevinyl, Poland

Special thanks to Izabella, Eli-Björn 🐕 and Kiara 🐈 for support, Shergo for EU-dictum, Göran for Kosovo-welcome, Johannes, Dokument Utifrån, Péter for press-text, Clara for 📻, Onomi, Mattias & Mattias for supervision, Agneta, Tore, Peter and Mattias for such a wonderful passion for music theory, history and pedagogics, Ann & Thomas for trust, sweat and laughs in parallel social work, Mikael & Birgitta for the contemplation and production facility, all pigs, cows and chickens in the livestock industry & Martin Dalin Volsing for creative and existential penetration.

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FIKTION Sweden

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The purpose and concept of "Fiktion" is to transform and twist sensory states into audio visual art.

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