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It is often said that the best art comes out of adversity, and so it is that producer Frits Wentink, photographer Erik Madigan Heck and actress Tilda Swinton have collaborated on Safe Passage, a fascinating audio-visual project born out of loss. Consisting of classical, choral, and electronic music in three movements, the gatefold album will be presented by Dekmantel with a 40 page booklet of additional photographs and paintings, as well as digital only remixes from Matthew Herbert, The Soft Pink Truth, BvDub, and East of Oceans. Dutch producer and renowned innovator Frits Wentink helms the Will & Ink and Bobby Donny labels, builds synthesizers and beautiful controllers, and puts out always experimental, left of centre house music that pushes at the boundaries. This project initially started out as him attempting to musically illustrate the photography of American visual artist Erik Madigan Heck. The internationally renowned Heck is known for a lavish and experimental use of colour that has won him the prestigious International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award as well as make him a regular contributor to high profile media such as The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Harper’s Bazaar. Midway through the project, Eriks mother was hospitalised due to breast cancer complications before also contracting Covid-19. By her bedsides and as a means to ease her passage, he repetitively played the first portion of the score, and then, once she passed, he decided to commemorate the music's function as a soundtrack for her transition to afterlife by naming it Safe Passage. The involvement of Academy Award–winning Scottish actress Tilda Swinton has lent the music an extra dimension of spirituality: throughout the album, she interjects whispered fragments of Heck’s poetry, blurring the lines between one phase of music and the next. The music has three movements across two sides: Side A, Safe, has a sense of hope and reflection as it undulates from minimalist string and brass arrangements to ambient and dissonant classical piano. Side B, Passage, then depicts the start of the transition into the afterlife as the voices of a choral madrigal ensemble gradually diverge, then break down entirely before a grand tonal expansion leads into a frenzied crescendo of choral vocals, hardened dub techno and anxious rhythms that convey the violence of the soul’s exit from this world. Finally, a cathartic Epilogue resets and bids farewell with the gentle sounds of a piano. Because of the global on-going loss of life as a result of Covid-19, Safe Passage has become a soundtrack in which many people will find solace as they remember the sad transitions made from this life to the next during this unprecedented time in history. Including digital remixes 1. Safe Passage (Matthew Herbert’s “Withers” Dub) 2. Safe Passage (The Soft Pink Truth's “The Weight of Pleasure” mix) 3. Safe Passage (BvDub’s "Breathless Haunts / Crush of Air” mix) 4. Safe Passage (East of Oceans’ “Delusion of Safety” mix) 5. Safe Passage (Frits Wentink 'Garden' Mix)

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Release Date

19.02.2021

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DKMNTL088

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House
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Various
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House
7-LP
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Various
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Techno
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Sam Goku
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Radiants Dekmantel
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Techno
12“
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Sam Goku
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Radiants Dekmantel
Transcultured
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12“
Olof Dreijer & Diva Cruz
13.95 €
Brujas Dekmantel
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World
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Olof Dreijer & Diva Cruz
13.95 €
Brujas Dekmantel
Bass
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15.95 €
Only The Good Times (+ Burial Remix) Dekmantel
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Bass Music
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Techno
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29.95 €
Saturn To Home Dekmantel
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Techno
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Saturn To Home Dekmantel
Techno
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Tunik
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Nosferatu Dekmantel
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Techno
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Tunik
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Nosferatu Dekmantel
Ambient
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Frits Wentink & Erik Madigan Heck
23.95 €
Safe Passage Dekmantel
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Electronica
LP
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Frits Wentink & Erik Madigan Heck
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Safe Passage Dekmantel
Electronica
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Jonny Nash / Suzanne Kraft
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A Heart So White Melody As Truth