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Lieven Martens
the Habu
Poole Music - Cat No: PM001
- updated:2025-03-01
The new album from LIEVEN MARTENS MOANA. In stock now. "the Habu." A three-part work including the seven chapters of "The Habu snake, an archipelago," inspired by Okinawa's habu pit viper.
Track List
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A1. Prelude (a fragmentary, oriental dream)
6:37 -
A2. Suite sentimentale e mini-male I
2:18 -
A3. Suite sentimentale e mini-male II
4:03 -
A4. Suite sentimentale e mini-male III
2:15 -
B1. the Habu snake, an archipelago I
3:54 -
B2. the Habu snake, an archipelago II
1:06 -
B3. the Habu snake, an archipelago III
1:23 -
B4. the Habu snake, an archipelago IV
3:42 -
B5. the Habu snake, an archipelago V
2:46 -
B6. the Habu snake, an archipelago VI
1:55 -
B7. the Habu snake, an archipelago VII
1:45 -
B8. the Habu snake, an archipelago VIII
2:47
This LP has 3 works.
In the prelude i took up and rejected the proposal of writing the first existing piece of music for Monserrate palace - an unsung place of (touristic) beauty.
A mini-male suite of simple electronic and simulacra melodies.
And a larger piece that takes the Habu snake - an Okinawan pit viper - as its motive. It is a mosaic collection of questions.
"Poole Music is thrilled to announce its inaugural commission, the Habu, the latest full-length from Belgium’s Lieven Martens. For the better part of two decades, Martens has been expanding his Aloha-bedecked musical vision, transitioning from the basement tape environments of his Dolphins into the Future project to the rich compositional tapestries of more recent post-exotica modernist works.
The Habu represents a true culmination of these identities in one of his most ambitious works to date. The album’s three pieces cast an omniverous net that explores those fragile tendriles between imagined and real, natural and fabricated, unity and chaos; concrete sounds enabling abstract inner landscapes. With the ecstatic revelry of Marco Polo returning to his queen, Lieven brings us gems from all corners of the navigable world: tales of an impossibly guilded Portugese palace, a fertility tonic conjured from a poisionous serpent, a simulacrum of Honolulu. At a moment when the world is more geographically isolated than it has been in generations, Martens’ the Habu is a welcome odyssey, a Charybdian travelogue of the psyche. About face." (POOLE MUSIC)
In the prelude i took up and rejected the proposal of writing the first existing piece of music for Monserrate palace - an unsung place of (touristic) beauty.
A mini-male suite of simple electronic and simulacra melodies.
And a larger piece that takes the Habu snake - an Okinawan pit viper - as its motive. It is a mosaic collection of questions.
"Poole Music is thrilled to announce its inaugural commission, the Habu, the latest full-length from Belgium’s Lieven Martens. For the better part of two decades, Martens has been expanding his Aloha-bedecked musical vision, transitioning from the basement tape environments of his Dolphins into the Future project to the rich compositional tapestries of more recent post-exotica modernist works.
The Habu represents a true culmination of these identities in one of his most ambitious works to date. The album’s three pieces cast an omniverous net that explores those fragile tendriles between imagined and real, natural and fabricated, unity and chaos; concrete sounds enabling abstract inner landscapes. With the ecstatic revelry of Marco Polo returning to his queen, Lieven brings us gems from all corners of the navigable world: tales of an impossibly guilded Portugese palace, a fertility tonic conjured from a poisionous serpent, a simulacrum of Honolulu. At a moment when the world is more geographically isolated than it has been in generations, Martens’ the Habu is a welcome odyssey, a Charybdian travelogue of the psyche. About face." (POOLE MUSIC)
LIEVEN MARTENS' album "the Habu" has been released as the first title from POOLE MUSIC, a new Portland label with upcoming releases planned from Francesco Cavaliere and James Ferraro. It consists of a prelude, three chapters of "Suite sentimentale e mini-male," and the seven chapters of the epic "The Habu snake, an archipelago," composed by collaging and processing electronic sounds and classical symphonic material over a foundation of field recordings made in Okinawa. (Original Japanese text by Saito)