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Accidental Forever

by NORMAL ECHO

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1.
Entertain 00:36
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Comfort 02:56
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Usual Day 02:58
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Entertain 02:38
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There 02:47
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Takeover 03:16
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Vanished 00:47
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Sun 03:08
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Always Ready 03:30
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Accidental Forever. The title itself captures the alienation that soaks through the music here. It could be the title of a creepy 1980's sci-fi television program directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski for the BBC, to which this album could easily function as a soundtrack. The album's sound is a unique take on Coldwave, New Romantic and '90s Pop music, built from raw, strange textures and straightforward lyrics sung in an ornately accented English casting shadows of desperation. Listening to it feels at many moments like finding yourself in a new city, lost and unable to ask anyone for directions; at other moments like being trapped in a software demo run on Windows '95, which has been running for the last two decades, growing abandoned and decrepit. Suffused with isolation, it speaks to public spaces at once frictionless and oppressive, urban centers simultaneously hermetically modern and decaying, and to the claustrophobia of daily routine. It is music for life as a maze.
But while it can be quite gloomy, it is not pessimistic: the centerpiece of the album is the serene, simply beautiful instrumental “Entertain.”

Originally from Poland, Normal Echo's Dawid Szczesny has released experimental music on labels around the world. Since 2010 he's made his home in Berlin, making him a natural addition to the Mansions & Millions label's growing roster of expats, transplants and others linked by the city's far-reaching cosmopolitan gravity. He recorded Accidental Forever almost entirely with just a Korg M1 synthesizer, one of the most popular synths of the ‘80/90s, and now somewhat forgotten.
Accidental Forever is slated for July 24th 2015 release, and the concert premiere of the album will take place at Pop Kultur Festival, at Berghain/Panorama Bar, on 27.08.2015.

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released July 24, 2015

music by Dawid Szczesny
artwork by Moritz Freudenberg

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