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a​ƒ​20 ⬄ on the feet of a wind

by Powell

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    to listen to more of the music on aƒ20 and view full sleeve-notes and related film work, please visit afolder.studio/af20
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    ↯ Limited run of 250 ↯
    ↯ Sleeve image by Michael Amstad and Marte Eknæs ↯

    on the feet of a wind is a wild assemblage of carbonated synthetic music from Powell and a sister record to ‘flash across the intervals’ and ‘multiply the sides’ — two albums already released in 2020. The record is released via a folder, a new music and film platform created by Powell, Michael Amstad and Marte Eknæs that bundles up music, film, image, text and other forms of madness into folders that are shared/expanded here at afolder.studio.

    a folder is a collection of disorienting works of experimental film, ambiguous texts, and other assorted media set to the most brazenly strange and formlessly mesmerising musical structures of Powell’s career. It’s also a work of artistic assemblage — without fixed notions of time. Tarkovsky once described his filmmaking as “sculpting in time,” and a folder exists in a similar kind of “zone;” it is a project continuously added to, subtracted from, abstracted, and injected into the glut of cyberspace like a slow moving pathogen that refuses to be defined or categorised. Shunning titles in favour of oblique category markers, films like aƒ34 present a mosaic of images of biological forms and sublime landscapes set to super-synthetic, carbonated compositions. All of this signals an artist liberated from the confines of the narrow branding signifiers an electronic musician can find themselves in. While it is aware of its place in cyberspace, this project also connects to something primordial and awesome. “Xenakis talked about creating universes with sound,” says Powell, “and we are all free to create our own worlds in life, art — whatever. This is what happened to me in a way: I have been in this world for three years or something, and I don’t really want to leave. The folder is a refuge.’

    For additional notes on this album, visit afolder.studio/af20

    released January 29, 2021

    Written by Oscar Powell
    Mixed by Oscar Powell and Tobin Jones
    Mastered by Russell Haswell
    © a folder 2020

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  • aƒ20 ⬄ on the feet of a wind [Limited Test Press]
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    exclusive edition of 4 test presses for aƒ20 ➜ on the feet of a wind ➜ the second physical album released via a ƒolder and made available in the absence of any income ➜ price is due to personal preciousness [I usually keep all test presses for posterity] and attenuating circumstances as the pandemic continues to rip great holes in our lives ➜ play on 33 ➜ hand-labelled and signed by Powell, 2021 ➜ comes with working text object from the Powell studio walls

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on the feet of a wind is a wild assemblage of carbonated synthetic music from Powell and a sister record to ‘flash across the intervals’ and ‘multiply the sides’ — two albums already released in 2020. The record is released via a folder, a new music and film platform created by Powell, Michael Amstad and Marte Eknæs that bundles up music, film, image, text and other forms of madness into folders that are shared/expanded here at afolder.studio.

a folder is a collection of disorienting works of experimental film, ambiguous texts, and other assorted media set to the most brazenly strange and formlessly mesmerising musical structures of Powell’s career. It’s also a work of artistic assemblage — without fixed notions of time. Tarkovsky once described his filmmaking as “sculpting in time,” and a folder exists in a similar kind of “zone;” it is a project continuously added to, subtracted from, abstracted, and injected into the glut of cyberspace like a slow moving pathogen that refuses to be defined or categorised. Shunning titles in favour of oblique category markers, films like aƒ34 present a mosaic of images of biological forms and sublime landscapes set to super-synthetic, carbonated compositions. All of this signals an artist liberated from the confines of the narrow branding signifiers an electronic musician can find themselves in. While it is aware of its place in cyberspace, this project also connects to something primordial and awesome. “Xenakis talked about creating universes with sound,” says Powell, “and we are all free to create our own worlds in life, art — whatever. This is what happened to me in a way: I have been in this world for three years or something, and I don’t really want to leave. The folder is a refuge.’

For additional artist notes on this album, visit afolder.studio/af20

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released January 29, 2021

Written by Oscar Powell
Mixed by Oscar Powell and Tobin Jones
Mastered by Russell Haswell
© a folder 2020

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