Klara Lewis revisits thankful, her fittingly eccentric tribute to Peter Rehberg, with a suite of reworks from Pelle Westlin, Baba Stiltz, Peder Mannerfelt, Erik Enocksson and Lokalfrågan.
How do you remix work that's not just purposefully crooked, but heartbreakingly personal? Turns out, Lewis knew exactly who to ask. Stockholm-based multi-instrumentalist Westlin's calm, thoughtful version of '4U' is more of a cover than a remix, but he zeroes in on the track's emotional core rather than its aesthetics, mirroring Lewis's backmasked, synth-y distortions with light-fingered acoustic guitar plucks, clarinet and delicate vocals. Stiltz takes a similar approach to 'Thankful' - itself an interpretation of Rehberg's 'Track 3' - and echoes its eddying harmonies on electric guitar, gesturing to the powerful dynamics with jazzy improvisations rather than attempting the impossible.
The track that seemed most primed for a remix - the two-and-a-half-minute splatter acid belter 'Top' - gets extended and reshaped into a peak time roller by man of elite footwear Peder Mannerfelt, while Lokalfrågan (aka Em Silén and Nora Pollak) dreamily interpret '4U' and acclaimed film composer Erik Enocksson turns in a fittingly cinematic version of 'Thankful', isolating its wheezing textures and adding evocative field recordings and church bells and windswept guitars.
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Klara Lewis revisits thankful, her fittingly eccentric tribute to Peter Rehberg, with a suite of reworks from Pelle Westlin, Baba Stiltz, Peder Mannerfelt, Erik Enocksson and Lokalfrågan.
How do you remix work that's not just purposefully crooked, but heartbreakingly personal? Turns out, Lewis knew exactly who to ask. Stockholm-based multi-instrumentalist Westlin's calm, thoughtful version of '4U' is more of a cover than a remix, but he zeroes in on the track's emotional core rather than its aesthetics, mirroring Lewis's backmasked, synth-y distortions with light-fingered acoustic guitar plucks, clarinet and delicate vocals. Stiltz takes a similar approach to 'Thankful' - itself an interpretation of Rehberg's 'Track 3' - and echoes its eddying harmonies on electric guitar, gesturing to the powerful dynamics with jazzy improvisations rather than attempting the impossible.
The track that seemed most primed for a remix - the two-and-a-half-minute splatter acid belter 'Top' - gets extended and reshaped into a peak time roller by man of elite footwear Peder Mannerfelt, while Lokalfrågan (aka Em Silén and Nora Pollak) dreamily interpret '4U' and acclaimed film composer Erik Enocksson turns in a fittingly cinematic version of 'Thankful', isolating its wheezing textures and adding evocative field recordings and church bells and windswept guitars.
Klara Lewis revisits thankful, her fittingly eccentric tribute to Peter Rehberg, with a suite of reworks from Pelle Westlin, Baba Stiltz, Peder Mannerfelt, Erik Enocksson and Lokalfrågan.
How do you remix work that's not just purposefully crooked, but heartbreakingly personal? Turns out, Lewis knew exactly who to ask. Stockholm-based multi-instrumentalist Westlin's calm, thoughtful version of '4U' is more of a cover than a remix, but he zeroes in on the track's emotional core rather than its aesthetics, mirroring Lewis's backmasked, synth-y distortions with light-fingered acoustic guitar plucks, clarinet and delicate vocals. Stiltz takes a similar approach to 'Thankful' - itself an interpretation of Rehberg's 'Track 3' - and echoes its eddying harmonies on electric guitar, gesturing to the powerful dynamics with jazzy improvisations rather than attempting the impossible.
The track that seemed most primed for a remix - the two-and-a-half-minute splatter acid belter 'Top' - gets extended and reshaped into a peak time roller by man of elite footwear Peder Mannerfelt, while Lokalfrågan (aka Em Silén and Nora Pollak) dreamily interpret '4U' and acclaimed film composer Erik Enocksson turns in a fittingly cinematic version of 'Thankful', isolating its wheezing textures and adding evocative field recordings and church bells and windswept guitars.
Klara Lewis revisits thankful, her fittingly eccentric tribute to Peter Rehberg, with a suite of reworks from Pelle Westlin, Baba Stiltz, Peder Mannerfelt, Erik Enocksson and Lokalfrågan.
How do you remix work that's not just purposefully crooked, but heartbreakingly personal? Turns out, Lewis knew exactly who to ask. Stockholm-based multi-instrumentalist Westlin's calm, thoughtful version of '4U' is more of a cover than a remix, but he zeroes in on the track's emotional core rather than its aesthetics, mirroring Lewis's backmasked, synth-y distortions with light-fingered acoustic guitar plucks, clarinet and delicate vocals. Stiltz takes a similar approach to 'Thankful' - itself an interpretation of Rehberg's 'Track 3' - and echoes its eddying harmonies on electric guitar, gesturing to the powerful dynamics with jazzy improvisations rather than attempting the impossible.
The track that seemed most primed for a remix - the two-and-a-half-minute splatter acid belter 'Top' - gets extended and reshaped into a peak time roller by man of elite footwear Peder Mannerfelt, while Lokalfrågan (aka Em Silén and Nora Pollak) dreamily interpret '4U' and acclaimed film composer Erik Enocksson turns in a fittingly cinematic version of 'Thankful', isolating its wheezing textures and adding evocative field recordings and church bells and windswept guitars.