Glitter in my tears, by Janek Schaefer

Glitter in my tears

by Janek Schaefer

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Miles Egan Delicate, refined, and spooky. Highly recommended for fans of the Caretaker or other ghostly ambiance. Favorite track: sparkles into the light of night.

Tillman Jex Absolutely stunned. The expertise in sound design and range of musical language is super impressive.

At the start I became a little disappointed with how short some of them were, but after getting through more of it, I became aware of the effect of this collage like approach. I really liked the format in the end.

Was, as mentioned, just like a collage that makes a whole image through the combination of smaller images.

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1.	sparkles into the light of night 06:02	buy track
2.	beam me up 03:45	buy track
3.	if only 01:08	buy track
4.	lagoon 01:59	buy track
5.	looking for love 01:13	buy track
6.	low points 01:55	buy track
7.	rise 01:49	buy track
8.	coming to 01:10	buy track
9.	swallow hole 02:45	buy track
10.	what comes around 02:27	buy track
11.	distant signs 01:13	buy track
12.	reflection waves 04:33	buy track
13.	spells 00:23	buy track
14.	dawn draws in 01:57	buy track
15.	all in the mind 03:00	buy track
16.	walking in 00:48	buy track
17.	missing moment 01:31	buy track
18.	beyond hope 01:12	buy track
19.	haunted hall 04:03	buy track
20.	hells bells 00:58	buy track
21.	forgetting the way forward 00:54	buy track
22.	falls from favour 02:14	buy track
23.	tale of two angels 03:07	buy track
24.	wanderings 02:20	buy track
25.	glitter in my tears 02:01	buy track
26.	conclusions in two minds 02:50	buy track

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Glitter in my tears’ marks the 20th anniversary of Janek Schaefer’s career as a recording artist, having now released 30 albums.

His music is best comprehended through examining his time as an architect, and how that forged his innate sense for constructing tactile atmospheres, that navigate through unknown structures and forgotten spaces, creating profound new places. Over his career he has placed focus on the relationship between body, medium, and sound, creating a field of work that defies easy definition. An architect of foundsoundscapes.

For Schaefer, the medium plays as great a role as the message itself. He creates music that exposes the marks and memories of a variety of media, as presented in the 26 tracks on ‘Glitter in my tears’, an eclectic album that celebrates the sense of overwhelming desolation held in the music. A subdued cathartic opus.

Each piece is a microcosm of haunted memory, that unites to create a record of melancholic vignettes, and is easily his most critical recorded work to date.

It’s a record that reflects Schaefer’s obsession with texture, atmosphere, and emotive acoustic states. Multiple interludes, like active memories, lace into one another. Their relation is temporal, and shaped very much by the settings in which they are encountered. Like the very best ambient music, ‘Glitter in my tears’ is an acoustic reflector of sorts, rebounding off the places and spaces within which it is experienced. This process means the record is never static, but in a constant state of discovery and rediscovery.  

Schaefer comments, “The album was composed over the last decade, in moments when most people are asleep in the dark, while the lucky ones are still dancing in the lights. It’s a record of delightful dark emotions evolving from the evocative dreams we yearn for, with our feet firmly on the floor, always wanting more. An unfolding compendium of motifs and repetitive fragments, fading from the memories of our emotions. Sparkling lights glisten in the hidden shadows of our feelings, with outpourings of love falling through the depths of despair. It is based on a true story”.

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released June 2, 2017

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