12″ vinyl edition of Ill Fares the Land
released on Digitalis Recordings
mastered by Rashad Becker
artwork by Marta Djourina

On the horizon, darkness looms. Small ideas birth larger than life sonics on Koenraad Ecker’s “Ill Fares The Land.” Inside this non-linear narrative, Ecker blossoms like a parasite crowding out its host. Deep chasms open within these musical walls and keep the delicate balance that exists within this aural web in check and free.

Koenraad Ecker is a belgian sound artist based in Berlin. He is fascinated by the dialectic interplay between the acoustic environment and the social relations contained within it; by the magic of the ordinary and the ordinariness of magic. Characterised by an unorthodox use of foley, extensive field recording and a love for electro-acoustic hybrids, his work attempts to make the empty spaces in between things heard & felt, and to find a delicate balance between the fragile and the visceral.