KARIN PARK RELEASES VIDEO FOR RECENT SINGLE ’TRACES OF ME’
NEW ALBUM ‘PRIVATE COLLECTION’ OUT NOW (PELAGIC RECORDS)
Private Collection’ is Karin Park at her purest, rawest and most beautiful essence: an album stripped down to the core of her mesmerizing voice and the haunting sound of the pump organ. An introvert and intimate album that shows her not just as a stellar musician but as a mother, a wife and a humble human being.
Karin Park has been referred to as the Scandinavian Nico for her persona, and dark ambient legend Lustmord called her a “force of nature”. However, despite a Eurovision song contest entry, a year of sold out shows as the lead in Les Miserables in Oslo and performances alongside Lana Del Rey and David Bowie, Karin’s talents have still remained somewhat under-exposed for the really broad public. This might change now, with a stunning new album and an extensive European tour with A.A. Williams this fall.
Recent single ‘Traces of Me’ is a funeral for a feeling, Karin Parks begins with an elegy that melts into the church-doom of organs. She moves us between confessional ballad and a storm of wailing phantoms in which underground beats and wailing oscillations support Parks’ heart-shattering lamentations. Commenting on the new video for the track she adds,
«What’s now a whisper, once was a song. A fire can only burn for so long.» In this video I’ll let you in on a grown woman’s broken heart. The song Traces Of Me opens my new record Private Collection and is an invitation in to the deepest of me.
Watch the video now, directed by @LAUKLI&LAUKLI – https://youtu.be/SUof0s3TyGs
The recordings of Private Collection go all the way back to Karin Park’s early childhood in rural Sweden, growing up in a Christian family and going to church in the Swedish woods. A few years ago she acquired that same old church building and turned it into a studio for herself and the rock band Årabrot that she plays in together with her husband. The tracks on Private Collection seem to utilise the full acoustic potential of the church’s room, the emptiness under the ceiling seemingly tangible through reverberation that runs rife. Slowing down the tempo of her songs and adding an extra measure here and there for breath, building from the humble pump organ to a majestic wall of sound, Karin Park flls the void of her childhood with the sounds she is most comfortable with today.
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