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Haarlemmerhout

by Coen Oscar Polack

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HAARLEMMERHOUT I: Wy gingen Houtwaarts 04:40
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Een diepnoodlottig neergelaten wenkbrauw 05:44
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HAARLEMMERHOUT II: Zelfopoffering in een Zwemmer 04:35
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4. De zon schijnt by den dag, de kaarsen by den avond, en de maan by nacht 07:00
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1. HAARLEMMERHOUT III: De stalen onbuigzaamheid van mijn heer 04:44
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2. HAARLEMMERHOUT IV: Welke bezweerende of magnetische kracht 07:16
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आवारा 08:25
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4. HAARLEMMERHOUT V: Als boombladeren wegstootende generaties in het bestaan des menschdoms 01:53
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about

One look at the sleeve of Haarlemmerhout, the new album by Dutch electronic musician Coen Oscar Polack, and you immediately know he is a romantic soul: blossoming trees in spring and blue skies with fluffy clouds. It’s urban escapism. It's the park in which you want to get away from other people, it’s the place you want to forget time. And that is also what he wants his music to sound like.

Coen Oscar Polack made a name for himself on the Dutch Narrominded label. With The Skipping Monk (2009) he took us on a sound documentary through India, and on his last offering, Fathomless (2013), a collaboration with IDM-artist Herman Wilken from Hydrus, he made a soundtrack for an expedition to the depths of the arctic ocean and the inaccessible mangroves in the Bay of Bengal. After several collabs with the noise lords of Glice, Polack is finally back with a full solo album. For Haarlemmerhout he seeks inspiration closer to home, in his hometown of Haarlem, and guess what: he never sounded more exotic.

Haarlemmerhout is a park in the south of Haarlem, made famous in the book Camera Obscura (1839) by Romantic writer Nicolaas Beets. On his album, Polack gets really close to everything in the park and pulls you into the fiber. He uses local field recordings of pigs from the petting zoo and bird traveling northwards from Africa to their homes in the north. He tears the sounds apart and builds them up with layers of synths and electronics. It’s a thin line between reality and synthesis, and that’s exactly the point. Like a heavenly merge between the pristine field recordings of Chris Watson and the sweeping electronics of William Basinksi.

On Zelfopoffering in een zwemmer (‘Self-sacrifice in a swimmer’) you hear swirling streams and fluttering synths and in Welke bezweerende of magnetische kracht (‘What spellbinding or magnetic force’) Polack alters the sound of a squeaky fence into an emotional, tear jerking ambient-piece, before giving his take on new age on the breathtaking आवारा (Awaara (hindi), meaning: drifter). It’s not a slick piano playing to a backdrop of a friendly Bob Ross-like creek, but a true symbiosis of natural and synthetic sounds, reminiscent of the melancholic works of Fennesz.

Haarlemmerhout by Coen Oscar Polack is out now on Moving Furniture Records.

credits

released June 5, 2020

All sounds by Coen Oscar Polack
Musical assistance by Lars Meijer, Stijn Dissen, Melle Kromhout and Ruben Braeken.
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering
Cut for vinyl by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at Loop-O
Sleeve design and photography by Coen Oscar Polack

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Coen Oscar Polack Haarlem, Netherlands

Coen Oscar Polack is a sound artist based in The Netherlands. His works balance natural textures with synthetic and instrumental sounds.

Polack works in album format and in collaborative projects, and performs in concert settings and site-specific installations.

He is co-founder of Narrominded.com and was a member of Living Ornaments and Psychon. ... more

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