Name: I Live In A Utopia
Brand: Ignatz

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ZORN86

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black

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Discs

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

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Format detail

Gatefold

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-06-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0769791980990

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Ignatz

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Aguirre

This sprawling collection by Belgian loner blues savant Bram Devens aka Ignatz encapsulates the mystery, murk, and melancholy of his uncanny craft at its most windswept and wayward. Originally issued via Goaty Tapes in September of 2015, this long-anticipated vinyl edition expands the saga with an additional 17 minutes of archival material. Deven’s palette remains constant throughout: feathery fingerpicking, modal loops, and intuitive six-string navigations interspersed with candlelit passages of mournful voice, alternately whispered, mumbled, moaned. His is an aesthetic of embers and resin, cracked masks and distant lights, of what’s left behind and what lingers on.

<i>I Live In A Utopia</i> was recorded following a relocation from his longtime base of Brussels to Landen, with a second child due soon: “I remember the weather being nice and having just bought a hammock.” The change of scenery seeded a promise of slower days and lighter times – no utopia perhaps, but a sense of faint hope glowing on the horizon. The songs slide between loose acoustic spirituals and smoky basement ragas, late afternoon haze and midnight moons, a seesawing restlessness reflected in the titles (<i>I Have Found True Love, Time Does Not Bring Relief, We Used To Smoke Inside</i>). The fidelity is grainy but vivid, refracted by tape warp and Flemish dust. 

I Live In A Utopia

Music GB