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Remo Seeland // Hollow Body LP

Remo Seeland // Hollow Body LP

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An album released in September 2019 by Remo Seeland, the president of Hallow Ground in Switzerland.The motif of this work is the vibration of the old subway that I experienced during my stay in NY, and the experience of hearing a single insect crying loudly when the pulse dropped in the highlands of Iceland. It is a work that considers how to touch the sound in rural areas.


Remo Seeland's “Hollow Body” is a suspenseful exploration of the interaction between sound environments and individual perception. It was sparked by an intense physical experience the Swiss artist had during a residency in New York City. “The subway became a sort of'atonal symphony 'for me, provoking a full-body experience with the rattling of the overcrowded, airless trains, ”the Hallow Ground founder explains.“ However, while the old subway is not exactly beloved by everyone, it also represented for me the melancholic meta- level of the moloch above it. ”The album, his first under his given name, makes this disparity audible over six tracks in which the visceral and the personal become at once abstract and universal.


Based on field recordings from both urban and rural environments, “Hollow Body” aims to mirror another of Seeland's psychosonic encounters. “In the highlands of Iceland, I noticed my pulse lowering and my breathing decelerating,” he says. , a single insect's buzzing seemed so loud to me that I became even more aware of the silence surrounding me”Silence, perception, order and the curious dialectics of the outside world and the inner workings of the human psyche are the central questions of“ Hollow Body ”.

Recorded in New York, Reykjavík and Zurich, “Hollow Body” draws extensively on field recordings and sees Seeland collaborating with Hallow Ground-affiliated artists Norman Westberg (Swans, guitar on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”) and Reinier van Houdt ( Current 93, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”), as well as the Swiss-based US-American musician Steve Fors (Deaf At Sea, trombone on “Second Coming”). The diversity of the source material is mirrored in the stylistic richness Seeland lays out with this LP. From the lush, bass-heavy drones of the opener “Body Innovation” to the downbeat-driven “Second Coming” and, finally, the haunting organ sounds of “Night Within”, “Hollow Body” forms a holistic entity that integrates idiosyncratic compositions into a coherent narrative.
- Hallow Ground 

Artist: Remo Seeland 

Label: Hallow Ground 

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An album released in September 2019 by Remo Seeland, the president of Hallow Ground in Switzerland.The motif of this work is the vibration of the old subway that I experienced during my stay in NY, and the experience of hearing a single insect crying loudly when the pulse dropped in the highlands of Iceland. It is a work that considers how to touch the sound in rural areas.


Remo Seeland's “Hollow Body” is a suspenseful exploration of the interaction between sound environments and individual perception. It was sparked by an intense physical experience the Swiss artist had during a residency in New York City. “The subway became a sort of'atonal symphony 'for me, provoking a full-body experience with the rattling of the overcrowded, airless trains, ”the Hallow Ground founder explains.“ However, while the old subway is not exactly beloved by everyone, it also represented for me the melancholic meta- level of the moloch above it. ”The album, his first under his given name, makes this disparity audible over six tracks in which the visceral and the personal become at once abstract and universal.


Based on field recordings from both urban and rural environments, “Hollow Body” aims to mirror another of Seeland's psychosonic encounters. “In the highlands of Iceland, I noticed my pulse lowering and my breathing decelerating,” he says. , a single insect's buzzing seemed so loud to me that I became even more aware of the silence surrounding me”Silence, perception, order and the curious dialectics of the outside world and the inner workings of the human psyche are the central questions of“ Hollow Body ”.

Recorded in New York, Reykjavík and Zurich, “Hollow Body” draws extensively on field recordings and sees Seeland collaborating with Hallow Ground-affiliated artists Norman Westberg (Swans, guitar on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”) and Reinier van Houdt ( Current 93, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”), as well as the Swiss-based US-American musician Steve Fors (Deaf At Sea, trombone on “Second Coming”). The diversity of the source material is mirrored in the stylistic richness Seeland lays out with this LP. From the lush, bass-heavy drones of the opener “Body Innovation” to the downbeat-driven “Second Coming” and, finally, the haunting organ sounds of “Night Within”, “Hollow Body” forms a holistic entity that integrates idiosyncratic compositions into a coherent narrative.
- Hallow Ground 

Artist: Remo Seeland 

Label: Hallow Ground