STANZA'S' OR THE LAW OF THE GOOD NEIGHBOR

Tracklist A Eleneor Ailisa B Simon Sebastien INFO Henry Andersen is a Brussels-based visual artist and composer. Trained as a minimal and reductionist composer under the wings of Peter Ablinger, he moved from music into visual art, writing and sound performances. His debut vinyl is a recording of the longrunning piece ˜Stanzas™ or ˜the Law of the Good Neighbour™. On each side, a pair of his friends reads simultaneously from a list of words. The list is an unfinished result of a word game Andersen has been playing for several years. Stanzas„ seems to be a precise text-sound composition, a liquid and elegant piece of concrete poetry that reveals the individual qualities of the voices and their interpersonal relation. But what sounds like a hardcore conceptual and idealist composition has a lot more to it. Being an heir to a playful and prosaic Cagean and Ashleyan tradition, the list of words is a score that acts as a field for an infinite amount of possibilities. Andersen documents some of these many possible outcomes, expressing an urge to be a human body in space, interrelated with others. The composer reveals on the record another face of conceptualism: as a material, personal and truly moving beauty. 300 copies Text by Henry Andersen Mastered by Christophe Albertijn Recorded by David Stampfli Printed by Gerard Herman & Henry Andersen Design by rr-jw & Henry Andersen An excerpt of Henry Andersen's debut vinyl featured in Soulwax's "Best of 2017" mix. Kicks in @34:40 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05rvc4x