Surface Variations

by Eric Holm

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C H R I S Mesmerizing sounds, which pulls you in deep und deeper

ARROWOUNDS Absolutely at the top of my list for best of 2020. Eric Holm's work is always extremely inspiring to me, and this album is a masterpiece of glimmering atmosphere and murky foreboding thumps and clangs that creep below the surface. Also, you get 3 bonus tracks through Bandcamp here, all of which are stellar.

Lost Tribe Sound It's a slow decent that may require some patience in the beginning, but once Holm's masterful penchant for ratcheted clobbering rhythms takes over, get ready. His commitment to sound sourcing and concepts alone, places all of his work in a league all its own. There is a lot to love about Surface Variations.

Finn of Tomland This is yet another perfectly honed album by Eric Holm that takes me to the edge of forever while enjoying the event horizon.
Total bliss!

JourneyProgram Finaly after 4 Years im realy looking forward to new Eric Holm Material

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	1.	Phorcys 13:46
	2.	Sagara 12:45
	3.	Alioth 06:48
	4.	Opalescence 12:10
	5.	Salp 06:10
	6.	Trifolium 06:07
	7.	Esme 05:06
	8.	Iolanthe 05:10
	9.	Amphora 08:08

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Eric Holm's new album reflects on his time spent underwater in the face of a growingly precarious personal, ecological and political landscape. A series of field recordings captured both above and below the surface are reformed into a sonic palette. Via oceanic sounds and rhythms taken from mechanical diving apparatuses, Surface Variations meditates on the connectivities and dissonances between humanity and nature.

Submerged within a marine panorama, the material frames the interplays of darkness and light — the contrasting of lively ecosystems and vast emptiness — contemplating the bloodlike essence of the planet and the eternal mysteries the oceans harbour.
The compositions draw on Holm’s time as an industrial diver, reflecting on ongoing desires to conquer this untameable domain, and a deeper humility in comprehending the limits and fragility of humans in the face of the unstoppable forces of nature.

Perceiving the ocean itself as both a teacher and a mirror, the music emerges as meditations on the human condition, seeking to imagine through the silence and solitude of water the possibility of alternative currents for life above ground.

Drifting alone, the sea becomes a timeless space for contemplation, a place to dream of new futures whilst reconciling the flotsam of the past.

Eric Holm in a UK based, America born sound artist and composer. His first LP Andøya (2014) was made from contact mic recordings of pylons carrying communications cables that connected listening stations on an Arctic Norwegian island. Eric's second LP Barotrauma (2016) was recorded underwater while training to be an industrial diver.

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released April 28, 2020

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Eric Holm is a UK based, America born sound artist and composer. His first LP Andøya (2014) was made from contact mic recordings of pylons carrying communications cables that connected listening stations on an Arctic Norwegian island. Eric's second LP Barotrauma (2016) was recorded underwater while training to be an industrial diver. ... more

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