Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds reissues and revives his debut album in form of a special remastered 10th Anniversary edition titled Eulogy For Evolution 2017 — available worldwide via Erased Tapes on August 25th.
Following its initial release in 2007 and coinciding with Ólafur’s 30th birthday, label founder Robert Raths gifted the chance for this record to shine a second time.
Eulogy For Evolution is a journey from birth to death, transporting the listener through life itself. Originally written as a teenager, the record has now been restored with the help of his friends, remixed by Ólafur himself and remastered by Nils Frahm. The cover art was redesigned and enhanced by Torsten Posselt at FELD using the original photographs taken by Stuart Bailes during a trip to Ólafur’s home in Iceland in 2007.
To experience the record in the present day is not only to experience the past, but also the sheer timelessness and relevance of these compositions, and the ambition Ólafur has had from the very beginning. “Fast forward 10 years, our relationships and knowledge in sound have matured, but you can still hear this urgency in Óli’s songs that caught my ears to begin with”, states Robert Raths.
Words from Ólafur, June 2017:
“I spent a couple of weeks in some sort of a time machine, opening up and working on 12-year-old recordings. There was noise in the microphones, some channels seemed accidentally muted, but sometimes I found myself admiring what my teenage self was capable of. It was somehow charming. Well, most of it. So I fixed the stuff that wasn’t before sending it off to Nils Frahm for remastering.
It was an ambitious outing. When I was 18 my uncle passed away from cancer. It was the first time I had experienced the passing of someone close to me, so I dedicated my work to him. Around the same time his first grandchild was born, and was named after him. I was inspired by the joy and positivity he brought, and saw that somehow life was extended after our death. So I set out to create a solid piece of music that would take us through the circle of life.
This work by a highly emotional teenager has been revived, matured and, I hope you’ll agree, improved by some of my favourite people in this world. I’m grateful to see it get another chance to shine and I hope you will enjoy this journey to the past.”
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releases August 25, 2017
2017, 2017 Erased Tapes

乐队组建于2014年，成员来自成都与郑州两地。乐队核心成员一直活跃在各种独立音乐圈。2014年主唱陈怡男放弃了最初的流行音乐风格而被独立音乐所吸引，成员之间私下是好友关系，键盘王倩与主唱陈怡男相识于五年前的一次综艺节目中，其后在一次音乐节现场与吉他手郭嘉结识，共同的价值观和音乐理念从而走到了一起，乐队正式成立。期间乐队尝试过硬核、迷幻、硬摇等不同音乐风格的磨合，最终乐队以独立摇滚、电子及流行定位于身。

跨越情境与地景，Cicada乐团最具主题特徵的专辑
宛如音乐裡的「湖滨散记」
细腻质问人文自然的价值
重新编录〈竹围小猫〉等旧作，赋予新生
带给独立乐迷无数唯美留白的Cicada，是台湾音乐场景裡的异数。以「乐团」的逻辑，编写古典弦乐，让Cicada始终有著跨领域的魅力，其各种乐风特徵，让耳际能有多重发想：后摇滚、新古典（Neo Classical）、原声带音乐、实验声响艺术⋯⋯
在欧美古典乐大厂纷纷向现代音乐投石问路之际，听Cicada的音乐，别具当代感。音乐作为方式，是类型中一次次的翻转。
与其谈论Cicada是「古典乐」与否，不如思考他们每一次的作品，所试图呈现的美学。甫结束《自画像》电影原声带的创作，Cicada在录音与製作上，进入了另一个境地。原声带製作的经验裡，让乐器在技术与语彙上的表达，更显精淮；加上了更多分轨录製方式，融合了Cicada向来擅长的室内乐亲密空间，进阶版的Cicada带来新专辑《不在的你们都去了哪裡》。
于弦乐的和鸣，于独奏的自白，Cicada将故事视野带到台湾自然地景，找寻消逝与过程。叹息之馀，找寻命题，以音乐纪录。此般消逝与伤感气氛，与过往的Cicada截然不同，更具备了现实的观感。故事欲望强烈，音乐表现也更紧凑饱满，宛如音乐版《湖滨散记》似，拉开动物与人之间的故事帷幕。
延续了前作《仰望海平面》，「自然观察」不仅是Cicada长时间的计画，更是乐团表达的改变──「留白」不再只是音乐裡的蒙太奇，Cicada写下沟通的渴望：从花莲外海的海豚，到专辑同名曲引导的珊瑚白化主题，以及栖地备受威胁的白海豚⋯⋯每一首清晰的歌曲，像是大翅鲸喷气凝结的水雾，透过音乐的光，折射出纯粹与唯美的质地。

據說，科學無法解釋大海的魚為何總是定期洄游，但生命有些重要的事，本來就不是科學能解釋的，
比如：想念，
知道遠方有重要的人在想他，或許，這就是魚洄流的原因。
你的生命中一定也有那些，為了他，一定要拼命游回去的人吧！
那些人就像氧氣，
會在你游到快忘記自己的時候，讓你想起當初認真打拼的原因。
忘記的確是很可怕的習慣，
有時候，我們會連最重要的人都會忘記，
如果有一首歌，能寫出一道洋流，會不會就能帶著你游到重要的人身邊了？
至少至少，在你不知道如何說出想念的時候，這一首歌，能為你唱出想念。
盧廣仲2017全新單曲 『魚仔』
獻給，曾經陪伴的他，現在並肩的他，未來期盼的他。

如果，没有发生的爱情，
其实，不代表我不爱你，
如果，我为你失去自己，
那么……你，听到了我吗？