Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Recordings From The Åland Islands (IA11 Edition) Preorder 12/09/25

Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Recordings From The Åland Islands (IA11 Edition) Preorder 12/09/25

Label: International Anthem - IARC53LP11 - 634457219366
Format: LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 12th Sep 2025
Genre: Jazz
Style: Jazz

Description
Recordings from the Åland 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 Åland 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 Åland 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 Åland Islands is far more than its context within the world of IARC, however, and it’s certainly more than its 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, Åland Islands repeatedly presents the listener with a palpable sense of place, only to pluck them up and drop them into an entirely new one. “...so tranquil and beautiful...” – Jayson Greene, Pitchfork

Tracklist

In Åland Air

On the Other Sea

Snåcko

Stureby House Piano

Rocky Passage

Kumlinge Kyrka

Voices

By Foot By Sea

Anna's Organ

Archipelago

Under the Midnight Sun