Markus Sollid presents the double single as a peek into the album Elastic Embrace, to be released this fall 2026 on Rhizome (you can remember our interview with Alto Aria). The double single is a taste of the way the album expands on the ambivalence we live with when we experience our foundations and relations transform into something new. Light and dark, gloom and hopefulness become two sides of the same coin where emotions that seem to contradict, instead live side by side and become something else, something that expands us.
It’s a fascinating piece, and it’s a great deal to put this wide, rich, and imaginative musical world into just two tracks. Enjoy our premiere on SoundCloud:
On the double single, we hear this coexistence in ruptures of the musically horizontal, when Sollid employs vertical synthesizers that yearn to break through a state of dejection. The music finds its form in an experimental electroacoustic space that fluctuates and moves through different states of mind and finds its home right on the threshold between. Sollid weaves the hand played and the programmed and lets them dialogue instead of opposing them, drawing parallels to the work of artists like Tim Hecker, Kali Malone, as well as the collaboration between Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders.
Markus explores an electroacoustic space between light and darkness, warmth and cold.
Markus Sollid is a composer and musician studying composition at RMC (Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen) and has previously released music on Eastern Nurseries and Forlaget Kornmod. He moves on the threshold between the hand played and the programmed, the light and the dark, like Asle, the main character of Jon Fosse’s Septology. The connections between elements that seem separate bind Sollids‘ sonic world together, like a Donna Haraway narrative about meeting the constant becoming of one’s surroundings and the nuances it entails. Redeeming Horizon / Low Dweller is released through Rhizome, a Copenhagen-based record label dedicated to experimental music and alternative release formats with roots in the Copenhagen underground.
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