All profits from this release will be donated to Plataforma de Apoio aos Refugiados, a Portuguese refugee support organisation.
Demo Records and Crossness Records present: Could Divine, Remembered by anrimeal.
Could Divine, Remembered refuses the limits of the traditional ‘remix album’ - sure, there are remixes here, but amongst them you’ll find demos, reflections, confessions, rituals, and the artist’s own heartbeat. The sum of these parts is an immersive audio documentary about the making of anrimeal’s debut. For those familiar with Could Divine, this is a chance to look behind the scenes and magnify its meticulous detail; for those unfamiliar, it allows a first visit to an abundant internal world.
Lockdown has provided ample opportunities for reflection, but Could Divine, Remembered does so much more than just that. Opening track ‘Hello And A Half (feat. Butterfly Child)’ both seriously contemplates Could Divine’s themes of nature and selfhood and shows the artist at play with overlapping words, noise and digital manipulation.
At various points, Ana invites listeners to share in the joy, pain and epiphany of creative work (as in ‘Headrest, A Story About Feeling’) and witness intensely private, almost spiritual moments of self-affirmation (‘Death Is A Burning Ritual’). Remembered also features reinterpretations from friends and collaborators, including a whirling, expansive remix of ‘Elegy For An Empty Coffin’ by Coral Rose of The Silver Field, fittingly retitled 'Elegy For An Empty Ocean'.
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released April 30, 2021
Hello And A Half (feat. Butterfly Child)
From 03:12, instrumental is an excerpt of Butterfly Child's remix of 'Marching Parades'
Remaining was created, engineered, produced, mixed and mastered by Ana Alves.
Encaustic Witches As An Ambient Track to Help Me Sleep
Created, produced, mixed and mastered by Ana Alves.
I Am Not An Old Rehearsal
Recording of an old rehearsal. Engineered by Nico Garcia, electric guitar by Huw Roberts and drums by Miguel Crespo. Conceptualised by Ana Alves.
Elegy For An Empty Ocean (The Silver Field Mix)
The Silver Field's remix of 'Elegy For An Empty Coffin'.
Headrest, A Story About Feeling
Created, engineered, produced, mixed and mastered by Ana Alves.
Could Flower (Demo)
Created, engineered, produced, mixed and mastered by Ana Alves.
Horizontal (with Xqui)
Instrumental is an excerpt of Xqui's remix of 'Vertical'. Words, mixing and mastering by Ana Alves.
anrimeal's Real Breather
Conceptualised, recorded, mixed and mastered by Ana Alves.
Death Is A Burning Ritual
Conceptualised, recorded, mixed and mastered by Ana Alves.
A riveting masterwork, the self-titled album from “Luster” is like The Raincoats gone full goth—it’s irresistibly ghostly music. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 27, 2022