Panxing – Slowmusic

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: ANY20 
Barcode: 5055869586795
Release Date: 14th May 2021
Genre: Experimental, Electronic

On April 16th 2021, Copenhagen songwriter and producer Panxing will release her second full-length album Slowmusic via Anyines, the Danish label and platform which she co-runs. Traces of domesticity haunt the sound, process and feel of Slowmusic, that has been conceived incoherently over time and finished through the temporalities of lockdown co-parent producing. The album title deals with this blurring or dissolving of time pivotal for the music’s process of becoming. The piano is a recurring element for Panxing and has been the starting point for composing, sometimes played, sometimes programmed and always the closest companion to the journeys of the voice. While Anti Gone featured vocals that were pitched unrecognizably and blurred in effects, on Slowmusic the voice is front and center in seven of the album’s eight tracks. The first take vocals stand untreated and raw, speaking and singing clearly and directly into the ears of the listener. While cherishing a spontaneous and unschooled approach to songwriting and composing, each track on Slowmusic delves deeply into particular feelings to do with time: past/present and frozen, to endure time, time as activism and care, interruptions. The album has been recorded in a variety of places from the west coast of Denmark to Portugal. Each track is performed without vanity; drawing the listener up close, with Panxing exploring improvisation as a means to keep the material fresh for herself in the process. The half speaking/half singing narration sculpts a variety of scenarios and scenes. “What are you pretending not to know? What did I learn today? Who did I love? What made me laugh? If you were dying, would you worry about this?” a vehement vocal asks us on ‘Forbes Jam’ leading thoughts to the double sided focus on entertainment and productivity of the 21st century. But then, on the following track ‘Coexisting’ a tender singing voice calms our unease with the words: “the songs they are good and I want them to come”. And maybe both these vocal sentiments capture the significance of the iconic album title. Slowmusic is the feel.

Track list: 1. Wrong Guy, 2. Idle, 3. Forbes Jam, 4. Coexisting, 5. How, 6. Small Worlds, 7. Take Care Time 8. I Can’t Tell