Roméo Poirier - Kystwerk (2019)

A sonic expedition that traces the serrated coastline of Norway and briny depths of the North Sea, Kystwerk sees Kit's resident lifeguard and aqua aficionado Roméo Poirier joining forces with the poet Lars Haga Raavand. Four years in the making, Kystwerk's palette is intoxicatingly vast: a sighing mass in turns opaque and rich with life. A swell of strings, field recordings and electronics plunging fathoms deep amongst the clicks and whirrs of creatures unknown. Discordant, Copland-esque brass emerges, like some menacing flotsam, and mesmerising tows of piano chords recall the disjointed harmonies of Jonny Greenwood or Murcof. Then, to cement the trance, Raavand lilts and enounces delicately, before he too is swallowed up.