the Habu, by Lieven Martens

the Habu

by Lieven Martens

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	1.	Prelude (a fragmentary, oriental dream) 06:37
	2.	Suite sentimentale e mini-male I 02:18
	3.	Suite sentimentale e mini-male II 04:03
	4.	Suite sentimentale e mini-male III 02:15
	5.	the Habu snake, an archipelago I 03:54
	6.	the Habu snake, an archipelago II 01:06
	7.	the Habu snake, an archipelago III 01:23
	8.	the Habu snake, an archipelago IV 03:42
	9.	the Habu snake, an archipelago V 02:45
	10.	the Habu snake, an archipelago VI 01:54
	11.	the Habu snake, an archipelago VII 01:44
	12.	the Habu snake, an archipelago VIII 02:47

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Poole Music is thrilled to announce its inaugural commission, the Habu, the latest full-length from Belgium’s Lieven Martens. For the better part of two decades, Martens has been expanding his Aloha-bedecked musical vision, transitioning from the basement tape environments of his Dolphins into the Future project to the rich compositional tapestries of more recent post-exotica modernist works.

The Habu represents a true culmination of these identities in one of his most ambitious works to date. The album’s three pieces cast an omniverous net that explores those fragile tendriles between imagined and real, natural and fabricated, unity and chaos; concrete sounds enabling abstract inner landscapes. With the ecstatic revelry of Marco Polo returning to his queen, Lieven brings us gems from all corners of the navigable world: tales of an impossibly guilded Portugese palace, a fertility tonic conjured from a poisionous serpent, a simulacrum of Honolulu. At a moment when the world is more geographically isolated than it has been in generations, Martens’ the Habu is a welcome odyssey, a Charybdian travelogue of the psyche. About face.

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released March 15, 2021

All instruments, recordings, and compositions; text and photography: Lieven Martens 2017-2020

Extra instruments on 'the Habu snake':
Micaela Medeiros (Flute),
Ana Isabel Ferreira, Margarida Franco (Clarinets),
Miguel Batista (Keyboard Strings)

Mastered by Christophe Albertijn
Layout by Johann Kauth

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