NOVA ATLANTIS
Miako Klein, Jia Lim
- Label
- Rockshots
- Format
- Digital
- Type
- Album
More info
Welcome to the Sound House - a place of contemplation, curiosity and discovery. Here the echoes of the baroque merge with the unpredictable shimmer of electronic sounds while Miako Klein and Jia Lim traverse centuries of sound and imagination. Inspired by Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1626), the two reinterpret the "sound houses" he described - laboratories of resonance and invention - as a living metaphor for their own musical practice. At the heart of Nova Atlantis is a dialogue between the historical and the experimental, between notation and improvisation, between gut strings and glowing LEDs. A replica of a Renaissance harpsichord hums alongside recorders and baroque violins; beneath it a network of cables and pedals shape the music into new dimensions of colour and texture. Klein and Lim explore the Doctrine of Affections with fresh ears, discover the rhetorical power of the old masters - Biber, Matteis, Buxtehude, Frescobaldi, Weckmann and Schmelzer - and breathe new life into their spirit through the lens of the Stylus Fantasticus. Improvisation flows freely and combines the precision of early music with the spontaneity of modern sound art. The result is a sonic journey through past and present, in which historical gestures resonate with electronic echoes and the language of the baroque is fractured by contemporary sensibilities.
Tracklist
- 01 The Magic Stone 03:29
- 02 Nova Atlantis 05:21
- 03 Real or Fantasy 04:17
- 04 Guardian Angels 04:06
- 05 Letter to Myself 04:25
- 06 Judgement Day 04:14
- 07 A Long Way to Valhalla 04:35
- 08 Souls of Travelers 03:49
- 09 Utopia Metropolis 04:48
- 10 When Stars Are Aligned 03:55
- 11 Endless Journey 04:42
Source: MusicBrainz