Croatian Amor / Caviar Glowing (LP)

Sleeperhold(鎖頸固定技)是一項來自比利時安特衛普的自主出版計劃，計劃發行十種不同主題/媒材的發行物，每一項發行物都是一個關係藝術實驗，用於探究共同研究/資訊散布/以及媒體之間的依存性，並且不再重複印製任何發行物，當第十種主題發行後，這個廠牌也將不再存在。 黑膠唱片為廠牌的第五項發行，編號5.5由比利時電子組合帶來最具代表性的作品《Caviar Glowing》，將田野錄音與合成器旋律與鼓機相互融合滲透，嚴謹卻又令人狂喜的良質techno作品。

（text by Spazz Society）

“Caviar Glowing” is the most realised face of Croatian Amor so far. Over the three pieces, that make up the recording, a broad spectrum of the projects previous methods are present, but they manage to go further than they have done prior. Field recordings, voice samples, synthetic melodies and electronic drum rythms blend and bleed in and out of each other. “Caviar Glowing” is a club record. But rather than being a record to play at a club it is a record trying to portray what it sounds like being there, when night turns back into day under puncturing dance floor beats and in the toilet stalls where you can trade anything you have or is. Where you feel more than you ever did before and know less, the place where ecstasy and paranoia becomes two aspects of the same core emotion, the inescapeable fever of knowing that no matter how hard you dance or how much you take, no one in the room will be as beautiful tomorrow as they are at that point and with every beat morning is getting closer. “Caviar Glowin” is a record about being in a place, knowing that you are supposed to be somewhere else.

Maurice Scheltens & Liesbeth Abbenes provided Caviar Glowing with the b-side etching and cover visual. The duo’s technical refinement and attention to detail, coupled with precise compositional clarity, allows them to create beautiful tableaus with a unique, graphic quality. Objects are meticulously arranged  into configurations. Flat becomes spacial and vice versa. The context of every element gets questioned and becomes part of an landscape of utopian compositions. Scheltens & Abbenes have quite an impressive resumée, with clients including Yves Saint Laurent, Vitra, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga and magazines such as Fantastic Man, Wallpaper, Pin-Up, and The New York Times style magazine. For this record they present a tableau of empty glasses, resonating perfectly with the story Croatian Amor is whispering in our ears.

― description from the publisher

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曲目

1. Tonic Water Bridge 04:12 AM (8:32)
2. The Goddess of Ecstasy Stoned to Death 04:21 AM (7:42)
3. Caviar Glowing 0:429 AM (3:40 )