“‘ik besta’ is a cassette supplement to the ‘Emigré’ CD, released November 1st 2024, by Ausland x De Fabriek.
The tracks on ‘ik besta’ were all composed, mixed and edited by Harold Schellinx over the years 2022 and 2023 using basic music tracks composed and recorded by Derk Reneman (Ausland). All except ‘Blauwe vinnen’ and ‘De kloeke atoomraket’ eventually, sometimes in a more or less different mix, became part of the story that is told on ‘Emigré’.
On ‘ik besta‘ the texts written by Har$ weave a somewhat different, a complementary, story, that can be read along in several languages —on the set of 26 cards packed in a cassette-case that accompanies the limited collectors edition, online by clicking the ‘lyrics’ links. All texts are based on Schellinx‘ (unpublished Dutch) novel ‘ik besta’. The voices reciting and at times singing the texts are that of (Japanese) Yoko Miura, (Mandarin) Yungwei Chen, (Dutch/English) Gersande Schellinx & Har$, and (French) an African-French man in the Parisian metro.”
2 tape cassette cases, one with a tape with music composed, mixed and recorded by Harold Schellinx using basic music tracks composed and recorded by Derk Reneman (Ausland) the other with 26 cards with the lyrics by H.S.
(read more: http://ikbesta.soundblog.net), n.p. 2024
