ii by Marc Elsner / Kimi Recor

A double album by Marc Elsner and Kimi Recor
Released by Wandering Astray

Recorded and written in Berlin, ii and iii complete a trilogy of live master recordings by Marc Elsner and Kimi Recor. Each session was captured in a single take, preserving the unedited tension between precision and surrender. What emerges is a continuous field of vibration, where resonance and decay carry as much weight as melody or rhythm.

The two albums move in opposing directions. One ascends toward expansion, the other descends into stillness. Together they trace a circular motion, exploring the thresholds between sound and silence, body and atmosphere. The duo describes their work as cosmient, a term for a music that exists both inside and outside the world, bridging inner perception and outer environment. It reaches beyond the genre boundaries of ambient, folding in elements of drone, experimental minimalism, and the sensorial listening practices found in sound art.

Their approach draws from the lineage of Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening and the acoustic sensitivity of artists such as Éliane Radigue, Catherine Christer Hennix, and Ellen Fullman. Like these composers, Elsner and Recor treat tone as a living material, shaped by air, touch, and time. The use of gong, voice, analog synthesizer, and electric guitar transforms space into an instrument, allowing sound to reveal its own architecture.

In this body of work, music is not an object but a state. It asks to be experienced as a continuum, an unfolding awareness of vibration that moves through and beyond the listener. ii and iii are less recordings than environments, portals into a listening that is both cosmic and intimate, a practice of becoming porous to sound itself.

Digital Record Label focussing on all things Ambient & Electronica.

Distributed by Kompakt.