Rutger Hoedemaekers - The Age Of Oddities

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: LP13-44
Barcode: 0600116134417
Release Date: 4th June 2021
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

 Recently signed to FatCat’s 130701 imprint, Dutch composer Rutger Hoedemaekers makes his debut solo release with a stunning album that marks the culmination of a decade spent in the hypercreative studio environment he co-founded in Berlin, including four years working closely alongside Jóhann Jóhannsson.
 Sonically rich, emotionally deep, and immaculately handled, ‘The Age Of Oddities’ showcases a brilliant new talent, its cinematic eloquence bearing witness to Rutger’s experiences composing for film alongside Oscar-winner Hildur Guðnadóttir and Jóhannsson, for whom the album is partly a eulogy.
 ‘The Age Of Oddities’ is a bold and forwardthinking record, with a rich, hybrid sound seeing vocals processed and blurred alongside brass parts and a wall of strings shadowed by Rutger’s
understated, textural electronics.
 The album features the Budapest Art Orchestra’s 23-piece string ensemble alongside vocals (Kira Kira, Else Torp and Laura Jansen), horn (Morris Kliphuis), trombone (Hilary Jeffery) and violin (Una
Sveinbjarnardóttir, Viktor Orri Árnason), with Hoedemaekers contributing trumpet, piano, keyboard and electronics.
 For fans of Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Mica Levi, Max Richter, Olafur Arnalds.

Tracklisting:
An Explanation For Its
Own Sake
Write Them A Creature
There’s No Going Back,
For Any Of Us
C.A.L.M.
The Invention Of The Moon
Ring Out The Darkness
Not For That Hour, Not For
That Place
We Will Clamber Through
The Clouds And Exist
Goodbye, Donald
Think Us Better Than We
Are