{"product_id":"lp-anja-howe-codes","title":"LP - Anja Huwe - Codes","description":"1 LP - Indie store Oxblood vinyl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eXmal Deutschland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e’s success with four albums on cult labels such as 4AD, \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHuwe\u003c\/strong\u003e abandoned music to pursue her visual art career. But leaving her legacy in the past was not so easy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInvited by her long-time friend \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMona Mur\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHuwe\u003c\/strong\u003e reconsidered her decades-long hiatus from music and decided to join Mur in her studio in Berlin. Together, they worked for a year and a half, composing, performing and producing the tracks from scratch, which would eventually become the album ‘Codes’. Integral to the overall sound experience was the input of \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eManuela Rickers\u003c\/strong\u003e who added her famed signature guitar style.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eInitially inspired by the diary entries of Moshe Shnitzki, who, at the age of 17, left his home in 1942 to live in the cavernous White Russian forests as a partisan, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCodes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e is about the human experience and what extremes can do to an individual. \"The result is a poetic, musical cosmos that encompasses the following themes: forest, fear, pain, loss, violence, and loneliness but also beauty, longing, hope and the will to survive,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHuwe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eexplains. These thematic extremities cause an erraticism to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCodes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e- a passing thunderstorm, a cyclonic burst of nature’s force - but one that exudes anticipation amidst the chill. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eWith elegant production by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMur\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHuwe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e and mixing and mastering by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJon Caffery \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e(Joy Division, Gary Numan, Einstürzende Neubauten) epic builds crash and disseminate, the sleek synthesized drones of sound even feel claustrophobic at times. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXmal Deutschland\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e, now marked as forerunners of the post-punk movement, were never complacent but consistently ravenous in their attack throughout the 1980s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHuwe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e’s return is no different. Unexpected but long overdue, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCodes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e is that missing page from post-punk’s history books, the freshly splayed paint across the decades-old canvas - it is the product of the tireless will to survive on her own terms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Encore Records Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58217779265919,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0976\/0525\/5551\/files\/sbr331-anjahuwe-1800_1024x1024_ccfc5dc6-4a40-4a70-bd6c-04cd4e72c22f.jpg?v=1787206899","url":"https:\/\/thevinyltable.com\/products\/lp-anja-howe-codes","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}