Svaneborg Kardyb - Over Tage
Release: April 21st, 2023
Aarhus, Denmark
„None of your knowledge, your reading, your connections will be of any use here: two legs suffice, and big eyes to see with. Walk alone, across mountains or through forests. You are nobody to the hills or the thick boughs heavy with greenery. You are no longer a role, or a status, not even an individual, but a body, a body that feels sharp stones on the paths, the caress of long grass and the freshness of the wind. When you walk, the world has neither present nor future: nothing but the cycle of mornings and evenings. Always the same thing to do all day: walk.“
Information overload. Headlines fly by your eyes, you check Reddit and Tik-Tok, read through an inflammatory Twitter thread (“Elon said what?!”), all the while trying to grasp the impending ecological collapse of our own doing. How is there so much but so little? How on earth are you supposed to absorb everything that seems worthwhile, when time is dwindling, when you try to hold on to the edge of reality in an age of hyperreality? How to cut the umbilical cord of our information age?
„Days of slow walking make you live longer, because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints.“
I find immense joy in walking. By simply putting one foot in front of the other, breathing in the air in tune with the rhythm of my movement, I leave my head for a moment. No need to think. My body takes over in an almost primeval ritual. Walking for the sake of walking.
Svaneborg Kardyb’s newest album “Over Tage” epitomizes just that: A bitterly cold walk through a hibernating, ice-kissed woodland, a leisurely stroll over hills blooming in the spring. It is the sunrise perfectly bouncing off of the gushing river. The Danish duo crafts a sound that emanates both a quaint beauty and a distant, bittersweet memory. With a delicate minimalism akin to Nils Frahm, the shimmery warmth of Portico Quartet and a tinge of Nordic Jazz a la Esbjörn Svensson Trio, “Over Tage” is the perfect companion for a liberating walk. All they need is a Wurlitzer piano, a synth and carefully played percussion, to create an atmosphere as intimate, as a hike in solitude.