Recordings From The Aland Islands

Recordings from the Ã…land Islands, the duo debut by synthesist Jeremiah Chiu and violist Marta Sofia Honer, is a truly unique series of pieces that marry acoustic and electronic sounds with field recordings, all captured on a trip to the titular Baltic archipelago.By the time Ã…land Islands was released in 2022, Honer had already been working with Makaya McCraven and Daniel Villarreal, but this project brought her to the front as a lead artist. And Ã…land Islands was the label's first collaboration of any kind with Chiu, who has since released the solo outing In Electric Time and the genre-breaking debut of his co-led supergroup SML, in addition to a trio album with Honer and the late Ariel Kalma (2024's The Closest Thing to Silence). Recordings from the Ã…land Islands is far more than it's context within the world of IARC, however, and it's certainly more than it's context as a travel document. Here Chiu and Honer have created a new world out of an old one with work that sees them in dialogue with their own source material. Like early masterpieces by Franco Battiato or Alvin Lucier, Ã…land Islands repeatedly presents the listener with a palpable sense of place, only to pluck them up and drop them into an entirely new one.The IA11 Edition vinyl LP features our IARC 2025 obi strip, plus a new 16-page 11x11" insert booklet with unpublished photos and new liner notes by filmmaker Sean Pecknold.