Erik Honoré - Heliographs (2014)

Musician, record producer and author Erik Honoré (born 1966) has contributed as a musician and producer to more than 50 records with artists as diverse as David Sylvian, Eivind Aarset, Arve Henriksen and Brian Eno/Peter Schwalm. 'Heliographs' is, astonishingly, his first solo project. This is a well-integrated and personal debut album that opens up a complete world of sound that the listener can hardly bear to leave behind. Most of "Heliographs" was recorded in Honoré's home studio in Oslo, but much of the source material consists of samples that were taken from concerts and live remixes. "I recorded the first tracks in August 2013, and it took a few months before I realised that this could be a solo album. Because even though the elements I had used were drawn from very different places, such as earlier sketches, samples from concerts and also completely new material, there was a musical narrative that began to take shape."