Af Ursin: De Overkant

Af Ursin: De Overkant – LP

La Scie Dorée, Scie 1314, Belgium 2014
Edition of 177 copies signed and numbered on the innersleeve
1 Hors Commerce copy marked HC (pressed on 180 gram vinyl)
26 copies marked from A to Z (pressed on 180 gram vinyl)
150 copies numbered from 1 to 150 (pressed on 125 gram vinyl)

Silkscreened sleeve and innersleeve
All sleeves and innersleeves are recycled, wear is intentional.

Music and production by Timo van Luijk
Recorded at Kulta Saha 2009-2014
Original image photo by Conny Cams

June 2015 : 2nd edition of 300 copies in a different sleeve

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July 2020 : 3rd edition of 50 copies in original recycled, silkscreened sleeve. Signed and numbered.

De Tweede Persoon

Onder de vleugels van Hypnos

Oogsprong

 

Review Boomkat

Gosh this is lovely – a suite of spellbinding ambient folk meditations from Timo Van Luijk, the boss of Belgium’s exquisite Metaphon label. A regular collaborator with the likes of Andrew Chalk, Raymond Dijkstra, and Christoph Heeman, among others, Timo operates at the core of Belgium’s current avant-garde and experimental circles. Produced and released under his Af Ursin alias on the La Scrie Dorée label set up for such purposes, ‘De Overkant’ is a disarmingly quiet and mysterious suite of fragile songs and instrumentals framing a minimalist palette of keys, synth, vocals, and percussions in creaking, dusty, room-recorded atmospheres. The delicacy and poise of his playing and ghostly vocals calls to mind the fragility of recordings by Japanese musicians, Ai Aso or Hisato Higuchi, as much as the Moorland ambience of those Untitled releases and the creepy, mystic vibes of Smegma and Jozef Van Wissem’s ‘Suite The Hen’s Teeth’ and Kreng’s quietest cinematic soundscapes. Ultimately there’s a dark and unmistakably singular spirit at work here whose catalogue warrants much further exploration on the strength of this recording. Huge recommendation.