Kiasmos - II Reworked (2026)

[RM8Kinoshita]

C'est sorti ...



   

In July 2024 Kiasmos returned with their second album, II, to critical and fan acclaim. The album took Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen across four continents over the next 18 months, playing to sold-out audiences. Now the duo have entrusted five artists to completely reimagine it.

II Reworked is out now on CD and LP. A digital release follows on August 7.

Arnalds and Rasmussen, together with executive producer Robert Raths, invited long-time friend and composer Alex Somers, producers/multi-instrumentalists duo Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith (aka Disiniblud), and fellow Icelandic composer duo Kjartan Holm and Sin Fang to rework the entire album. The result is a sprawling and shimmering trip back through the record’s melodies, with a dream-like daze more suited for after the dancefloor and when the lights have faded.

    “There are so many layers within this music, and we were curious to see what might emerge when other artists shone a light on them. Bringing together this dream team felt very special. It was fascinating to discover what each artist connected with and what rose to the surface through their perspective.” – Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen

Nayar and Keith use electronic experimentation to reshape the emotional core, unveiling and highlighting stems that lay in the background of their original forms. Holm and Fang emphasise the simple beauty of the compositions through a more ambient and drone-led lens, honing in on each delicate moment and extracting something new, while Somers, working with analogue studio equipment, detunes pianos and strings and slows the pieces down, allowing the songs to reach new emotional heights.

The reworkers, in turn, have picked visual artists to expand on what they created with their own unique view of the world, in the form of a complete set of visuals for the album’s 11 songs: Japanese video artist and musician Takagi Masakatsu creating his first hazy images in almost 10 years, Portland-based Jayden Becker’s colourful stop-motion flickers us through Nayar & Keith’s five reworks, and Icelandic filmmaker Kjartan Trauner’s raw VHS footage shows us life in inner city Reykjavík.

Credits

    Original songs composed by
    Ólafur Arnalds, Janus Rasmussen
    Mastered by
    Zino Mikorey
    Executive Producer
    Robert Raths
    Artwork
    Studio Torsten Posselt
    Remix and additional production on tracks 1, 5, 6
    Alex Somers
    Remix and additional production on tracks 2, 3, 4, 8, 10
    Rachika Naya, Nina Keith
    Remix and additional production on tracks 7, 9, 11
    Kjartan Holm, Sindri Már Sigfússon
    Visualisers on tracks 1, 5, 6
    Takagi Masakatsu
    Visualisers on tracks 2, 3, 4, 8, 10
    Jayden Becker
    Visualisers on tracks 7, 9, 11
    Kjartan Trauner

Oui, l'édition translucent limited est déjà indisponible ... (je l'ai obtenue sur pré-commande)

Et les versions wav sont disponibles depuis aujourd'hui en chargement

Les autres différents formats sont dispo (2LP, CD, WAW, MP3)

Accès à la playlist :

[Vidéo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WphLQ6B...wgUNUUFRR4]

À apprécier sans limites ni modération    
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[RM8Kinoshita]

Je viens d'écouter l'album sur le système TAD, le résultat est vraiment magnifique. Certains passages expriment une profondeur parfois insondable... vertigineuse 

Les reworkers ont revisité tous ces titres de "Kiasmos II" d'une manière vraiment originale et convaincante.
À partir des matériaux thématiques d'origine, ils ont travaillé, façonné des textures, des sonorités incroyablement larges, riches et somptueuses. 
La mise en espace est très finement distribuée suivant les titres. L'absence de rythmique façon techno n'est absolument pas gênante, l'esprit original des titres n'est pas trahi, au contraire chacun est parfaitement reconnaissable, et bonus du truc, les reworkers y impriment une humanité et une chaleur vraiment communicatives.

Cette musique est je crois définitivement tournée vers l'avenir et sur tout ce qu'il peut nous apporter de positif

crdt
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