‘Other Rooms’ is an uncompromisingly adventurous and engaging listen. It manages the rare feat of remaining concise while brimming with detail and inventiveness.
Ten years into a multifaceted career in experimental sound, Belgium’s Adriaan de Roover presents ‘Other Rooms’, his second solo album and a product of the thoroughly unexpected things we all experience, from societal freeze to the dissolution of individual relationships. Originally recorded for a performance with Fennesz at Église Notre-Dame de Laeken in 2020, Other Rooms was reworked into its final form in 2023. De Roover notes an inspiration from “looking at different versions of a life, sitting in a space between them; a constant focus on those alternate things... What if, what if.” It is introspective music informed by a desire for connection to oneself, to others, and to the boundless scale of everything else.
Other Rooms is Adriaan’s second outing through the acclaimed Dauw imprint, which is also the home to Midori Hirano, Dylan Henner, H.Takahashi, Lieven Martens and Taylor Deupree.
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released February 16, 2024
Artwork by Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei
Graphic design by Ran De Vos
Mastering by Stephan Mathieu
All music by Adriaan de Roover
Vocals on Dank u by my niece and my mother
Cello on Homebound by Nelle Bogaerts
Guitar on Homebound by Njord De Petter
The track Other Rooms was built around a field recording including musicians playing in Jodhpur, India (2018)
One of the only artists who's work I will buy immediately without previewing. The kind of music that feels like it was conjured in some sort of incantation rather than created by human hands. Olli is a blessing ghosttropics
Phantom Train and White Sands and…and…and…ok…shit…every Flippin’ track is a masterclass in how to write a track.
Like next-level George Winston.
Not just good.
Stupidgood. trnngthngs
Composer, artist, and 12k label founder Taylor Deupree collaborates with Joseph Branciforte to reimagine his own seminal album. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 6, 2024
texture-rich musicscapes stitched w extreme care. Uwe always listens deeply to every tiny aspect of that which flows from his monitors. in Drei Formen he brings us imo one of his finest works. every delicate detail of field recording and instrumentation has been harnessed and beautifully transferred to the listenable medium. highly recommended, esp for hphones. Ews Nsj