- 1Love Comes
- 2Spirit
- 3Air On My Skin
- 4Left Me
- 5In Another
- 6Love Goes
- 7Air On My Skin (epic45 remix)
- 8Spirit (E.L. Heath remix)
- 9 Left Me (The Space Between Numbers remix)
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People are haunted, just as buildings and landscapes can feel haunted. We leave our thoughts and feelings in certain places more than others. The emotions and memories we carry intermingle with the spaces we occupy and pass by daily. Sometimes, a place, or a landscape, evokes a certain feeling within us.
I pass a cluster of six trees on my walks along the Marne River. These six trees stood out due to their neat arrangement. Two rows of three, or three rows of two? Why were they planted this way? Huddled so close together, like a small audience bearing witness to the humans, animals, and the river passing by. I wondered about the people whose lives had come and gone, the thoughts they deposited in that place, the conversations, and the changes in time and seasons that these trees had absorbed as they grew up towards the sky. They became the focal point and inspiration as I gathered my improvised material for this six-track album.
Made with guitar, vocals, and a few effects pedals, with bass on one track, and a couple of field recordings made near the six trees. Some pieces were recorded a few years ago, and they stayed with me - haunted me. Other pieces (the opening and closing tracks) were newer, improvised guitar-based drones I made specifically for vocals that I had asked Scottish musician Hamish Mackintosh (aka FUEL / The Wave Room) to record for me. He sent me these beautiful freeform spoken and sung pieces, without knowing what I would do with them. I created a drone around the spoken pieces and wove the sung parts into another track, adding my vocals to it. A mix of old and new vocals from me, but keeping it improvised and lo-fi for a certain feel. I recorded the last beeps and splutters of life from a dying preamp, and the unearthed, electrical buzz from the electric guitars.
Isn’t it fascinating how thoughts that are more melancholic tend to linger? Things we don’t want to let go of will ultimately stay to haunt us. Maybe we need to re-live them in our heads and hearts? Moments in time. It gives me peace and closure to use these parts from the past - to realize that they were supposed to wait for this moment.
credits
released May 1, 2025
Karen Vogt: vocals, guitars, effects pedals, bass, field recordings, and more.
Vocals & lyrics on tracks 1 and 3 by Hamish Mackintosh, recorded in London.
Recorded and mixed by Karen Vogt in Paris
Mastered by Ben Holton
I pass a cluster of six trees on my walks along the Marne River. These six trees stood out due to their neat arrangement. Two rows of three, or three rows of two? Why were they planted this way? Huddled so close together, like a small audience bearing witness to the humans, animals, and the river passing by. I wondered about the people whose lives had come and gone, the thoughts they deposited in that place, the conversations, and the changes in time and seasons that these trees had absorbed as they grew up towards the sky. They became the focal point and inspiration as I gathered my improvised material for this six-track album.
Made with guitar, vocals, and a few effects pedals, with bass on one track, and a couple of field recordings made near the six trees. Some pieces were recorded a few years ago, and they stayed with me - haunted me. Other pieces (the opening and closing tracks) were newer, improvised guitar-based drones I made specifically for vocals that I had asked Scottish musician Hamish Mackintosh (aka FUEL / The Wave Room) to record for me. He sent me these beautiful freeform spoken and sung pieces, without knowing what I would do with them. I created a drone around the spoken pieces and wove the sung parts into another track, adding my vocals to it. A mix of old and new vocals from me, but keeping it improvised and lo-fi for a certain feel. I recorded the last beeps and splutters of life from a dying preamp, and the unearthed, electrical buzz from the electric guitars.
Isn’t it fascinating how thoughts that are more melancholic tend to linger? Things we don’t want to let go of will ultimately stay to haunt us. Maybe we need to re-live them in our heads and hearts? Moments in time. It gives me peace and closure to use these parts from the past - to realize that they were supposed to wait for this moment.
credits
released May 1, 2025
Karen Vogt: vocals, guitars, effects pedals, bass, field recordings, and more.
Vocals & lyrics on tracks 1 and 3 by Hamish Mackintosh, recorded in London.
Recorded and mixed by Karen Vogt in Paris
Mastered by Ben Holton
