ROBIN KESTER

[ she/her ]

city: Rotterdam
country: Netherlands
genre: Indie, Pop
styles: Indie Folk, Dream Pop, Folktronica, Alternative

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credits: Danique van Kesteren

Patch

out on September 06, 2024

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I think this is my dreamiest work to date, where I’ve managed to hide a lot of personal things beneath the surface.
Patch is a collection of both old and new songs that I recorded in different places and with different collaborators. I wrote Long Dark Sleep, Reversed Shimmers, and Something In My Room with Marien Dorleijn. However, I produced Something In My Room in Rotterdam with Wannes Salomé, where I also recorded Shape Memory. Birds In D-Minor was produced with Sam van Hoogstraten and recorded at his studio in Den Dolder.
I see the EP as a kind of patchwork, with soundscapes and field recordings stitching the tracks together. For example, you can hear birds from Den Dolder on both Something In My Room and Birds In D-Minor. On the latter, you’ll also hear crickets from the dunes near The Hague, and birds from Het Kralingse Bos in Rotterdam. The soundscape for Reversed Shimmers is actually made from unused vocal takes from earlier songs, cut up and edited so that all you really hear is just a bit of the breath I produce while singing.

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