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  • Summary: The full-length release from Jeremiah Chui and Marta Sofia Horner was recorded on the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
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  1. Apr 1, 2022
    90
    Chiu and Honer’s interpretations of this space build a sense of place at the intersection of their lived experience and the unique geography of the archipelago, and it’s this sense that they share with us on this new release.
  2. Apr 1, 2022
    80
    At its most transfixing, Recordings From the Åland Islands sounds like music that might naturally arise from the landscape itself. Tranquil, bleary, and languid; ambient and gorgeous, but full of detail that makes the experience feel personal to Chiu and Honer.
  3. Mojo
    Apr 1, 2022
    80
    An immersive audio tour that acts as a kind of Baltic analogue to ambient jazz pin-up boy Jon Hassell's more equatorial excursions. [May 2022, p.92]
  4. Apr 1, 2022
    77
    Spend enough time in it, and you will sense that intelligence, fleet and mysterious, moving just beneath the surface. Something is alive in their work, and it feels like it’s always rounding the next corner, just out of your reach.