Sofie Birch - Holotropica (Intercourse)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

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What We Say

Kindly opening her secret garden, Sofie Birch gives us a tour of this blooming New Age audio dynamic space where the non-native saxophone helps nutrient fix the ambient flora, & tonal insects flitter unhindered & further cross pollinate the sonic diversity of this wondrous place.

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What The Release Notes Say

“I imagine Holotropica as a place. 
A point behind closed eyes. 
From a focal point in potential growth / in a flowing dynamism 
A point where nothing happens and everything is. 
Wherefrom everything can be invoked 
from the ether. 
Or brought to life even. 

I imagine an opening between the eyes 
that cuts up through the head 
allowing the light from the stars to propagate into the skull 
into the body. 
Down the abdomen 
where roots twist around organs and slowly grow and tangle up along the spine in shades of green, 
striking buds in the light of the stars. 

Small blossoms that click and pop and coo an organ responsive language of saliva and heat. I imagine an organic atrium placed behind the forehead. where plants tumble out of colorful pots and vases, housing living creatures that talk and chirp and wrap themselves in the trees, stretching their branches in through the window holes. 

I imagine the top of the head to be open towards the sky, full of pink sunlight, like what you see behind closed eyes. White moonlight cooling down the walls, making room for the stars' germ and clatter. Up and down the furs, the skin of the leaves and the moist pit of the oral cavity. 

Every second is lively. 
Crunchy, tickling, gurgling.. 

Where everything moves towards wholeness. 
Where fragments gather in a focus. 

a living ecosystem that connects the heart with the planets, the free thought and the earthbound in inherent gratitude for life and love. 

I imagine this when I breathe in. 
I imagine this place will always be here. 
Also for those who haven’t visited it yet.”  

CREDITS
​All tracks composed and recorded by Sofie Birch, and produced by Sofie Birch and Christian Rohde 
All saxophone recordings by Asbjørn Derdau 

Saxophone on Observatory and Humidity by Nana Pi 
Beats on Observatory by Asbjørn Derdau 
Flute on Surface Pan by A. Fabrin 
Harp on Hypnogogia by Dolphin Midwives 
Outro composition and SH-2000 on Hallu by _iC_iC_ 
Drums on The Sun XiX by iC_iC_ 

Mixed and mastered by Sofie Birch and Christian Rohde 

Artwork by Amanda Baum and Heidi Maribut. 

Supported by KODA Kultur, Statens Kunstfond, Danske Populær, and DJBFA

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