Description
why we love this
Thick, reedy tones and volatile currents move through the space like air learning new paths. What hangs and hovers loosens and drifts, tilting, slipping sideways, with a spring in its step.
about the record
Flutter Ridder is the duo of Norwegian multidisciplinary artists Espen Friberg and Jenny Berger Myhre, both of whom play significant roles in Oslo’s contemporary art and music underground. The pair first collaborated during the production of Friberg’s debut solo record, Sun Soon, released on Hubro in 2022, quickly recognizing a creative kinship rooted in a playful, intentionally naive approach to making art.
In November 2023, they decamped to the coastal town of Hvisten in southeastern Norway to record what would become their debut self-titled album in an ancient wooden church. Drawing from a palette that included Friberg’s idiosyncratic Serge modular system alongside the church’s pipe organ and its intoxicating acoustic reverb, they began recording and sculpting music informed by the idea that air and electricity share a common flow, a continuous current directed through valves and potentiometers.
Over time, the pair came to think of the Serge and the pipe organ as sibling instruments. The former yields unpredictable and complex timbres that complement the woolly, reedy drones and strange microtonal overtones of the latter. At once sublime, liturgical, and whimsical, Flutter Ridder offers its listeners a series of moving, cinematic natural landscapes, shaped by the sensibilities of its makers and the indelible influence of the environment in which it was recorded.
