{"product_id":"jeremiah-chiu-marta-sofia-honer-recordings-from-the-aland-islands-ia11-edition","title":"Jeremiah Chiu \u0026 Marta Sofia Honer - Recordings from the Åland Islands (IA11 Edition)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eRecordings from the Åland Islands, the 2022 duo debut by synthesist Jeremiah Chiu and violist Marta Sofia Honer, is a truly unique series of pieces that marry acoustic and electronic sounds with field recordings, all captured on a trip to the titular Baltic archipelago. Its release signaled another turning point for International Anthem, presenting a fresh take on the collage-based music that had become such a signature facet of the label's catalog while also establishing a close relationship with two artists who have since become pillars of the label's community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat relationship started with mutual friends and years spent on the Chicago music scene, but fully blossomed after Chiu and Honer had already relocated to Los Angeles, where they would become critical builders of IARC's bridge between the two cities. By the time Åland Islands was coming to fruition, Honer had already written, performed and recorded strings with Makaya McCraven and Daniel Villarreal, but this project brought her to the front as a lead artist in her own right. Åland Islands was the label's first collaboration of any kind with Chiu, who has since released the solo outing In Electric Time and the genre-breaking debut of his co-led supergroup SML, in addition to a trio album with Honer and the late Ariel Kalma\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2024’s The Closest Thing to Silence), and copious album art and sundry visual work for IARC from his graphic design chair (including the now-annual publication Tracing the Lines). And that’s not even mentioning Chiu \u0026amp; Honer’s sophomore duo album Different Rooms, which was released in June 2025 to wide critical acclaim.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecordings from the Åland Islands is far more than its context within the world of IARC, however, and it’s certainly more than its context as a travel document. Here Chiu and Honer have created a new world out of an old one with work that sees them in dialogue with their own source material. Like early masterpieces by Franco Battiato or Alvin Lucier, the album repeatedly presents the listener with a palpable sense of place, only to pluck them up and drop them into an entirely new one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilmmaker Sean Pecknold, who accompanied Chiu and Honer on their first trip to the Åland Islands, sums things up beautifully in his liner notes for the IA11 Edition of the album: \"Along with their music, they recorded field sounds of the island: the murmurings of our friends, the birds at dusk, an organ inside an ancient church, the hum of bike tires rolling across soft gravel, the Finnish PA announcement on the afternoon ferry. Every sound they threaded into their compositions became a countermelody to the fluttery layers of synthesizer and haunting strings. They were starting to define a new texture, a new tone, a new vision.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe IA11 Edition LP features our IARC 2025 obi strip, plus a new 16-page 11x11\" insert booklet with unpublished photos from the recordings, new liner notes by Sean Pecknold, and an in-depth conversation between Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased September 12, 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten, performed, and produced by Jeremiah Chiu \u0026amp; Marta Sofia Honer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded in various locations on the Åland Islands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeremiah Chiu – piano, organs, modular synthesizer, Crumar Performer, Juno-60, CS01, OP-1, bass guitar, and field recordings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarta Sofia Honer – viola, Crumar Performer, and hand chimes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProcessing on \"In Åland Air\" by John McEntire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdditional field recordings on \"Stureby House Piano,\" \"Voices,\" and \"By Foot By Sea\" by Sean Pecknold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlute on \"Archipelago\" by Stephen Honer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited and arranged in Kumlinge, Chama, and Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMixed by Jeremiah Chiu, Dave Vettraino, and Regina Martinez at International Anthem Studios, Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMastered by David Allen in Portland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover image by Joyce Kim.\u003cbr\u003eVerso images by Marta Sofia Honer.\u003cbr\u003eLayout by Jeremiah Chiu.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThank you: Sage and Jannika Reed, Scottie McNiece, Dave Vettraino, David Allen, Airi Pettersson, Nina Carlsson, Johann from Seglinge, the Department for Åland Education and Cult Kumlinge Ungdomsforening, S:ta Anna Kyrka, Sean Pecknold, Adi Goodrich, Joyce Kim, Andrew Bruntel, Jeff Desom, Sage Price, Anabella Casanova, Ben Babbitt, Celia Hollander, Booker Stardrum, Takako Minekawa, Dustin Wong, Sam Prekop, Ken Zawacki, Charlie Vinz, Monica Rezman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpecial thanks to The Hotel Svala.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINFO ON DIGITAL-ONLY BONUS TRACKS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"ÅRTV 682019\" is material from a live performance in 2019 at Kumlinge Church. Includes excerpt of radio interview on Åland Radio on August 6, 2019.\u003cbr\u003e\"Crossings\" material from a live performance in 2019 at Kumlinge Church.\u003cbr\u003e\"On the Other Sea\" (Live Edit from Brownswood Basement) was recorded at Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Basement studio in London, UK, 2024.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"license-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"license\" class=\"info license\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"cc-icons commercial\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eall rights reserved\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"IARC0053 Classic Black vinyl LP (IA11 Edition)","offer_id":52121005130002,"sku":"IARC0053LP11","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0053 Digital Download","offer_id":52121005162770,"sku":"IARC0053","price":8.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"IARC0054 - Recordings from Åland Islands IA11 Edition - Test Pressing","offer_id":52121005195538,"sku":"IARC0053LP11-TP","price":44.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/6989\/0578\/files\/a1872372395_10.jpg?v=1773980629","url":"https:\/\/shop.intlanthem.com\/products\/jeremiah-chiu-marta-sofia-honer-recordings-from-the-aland-islands-ia11-edition","provider":"International Anthem","version":"1.0","type":"link"}