The Loke Rahbek

Elephant is a 2020 collaborative album between Frederik Valentin and Loke Rahbek, both of Denmark. This was released through Posh Isolation

Loke Rahbek meets his label mate Frederik Valentin (KYO) on their maiden collaboration - an elegant, often ravishing suite of synth gestures where Valentin tempers the more saccharine tastes of his peer, and vice-versa Rahbek softens his jazzier angles, both helping to realise a sweeping cinematic sound with stylistic parallels found in Maxwell Sterling’s Hollywood Medieval and Japanese electro-jazz.

First outing for this collaborative effort from the prolific Posh Isolation mainstay Loke Rahbek and Frederik Valentin of KYO, also on the revered Danish label. As old friends circling around the same scene this is the first time they have combined their respective perspectives. The results are an ambitious aquatic infused audio environment. Recorded near water at Valentin’s studio within the vicinity of the new aquarium in Copenhagen, Buy Corals Online channels the sensual floating aspects of such environments.

"Destruction Unit sacrificed their ears to make this album as loud of a statement as possible. Will you lend them yours?" For once, the grand statement in an album's liner notes is dead on the money – this psychedelic assault squadron may begin 2015's Negative Feedback Resistor with two minutes of distant ambient sounds hovering over the horizon, but once "Disinfect" finally kicks in, this music sounds like the equivalent of being tossed headfirst into a deep pit filled with several dozen Marshall amps, all cranked to ten and bleeding feedback.