Voice Frames by Benjamin Finger

Benjamin Finger is an artist from Oslo in Norway with releases on labels such as Time Released Sound, Eilean, Shimmering Moods and Flaming Pines. He has performed live both in Norway and abroad. UK performances have seen several appearances at Café Oto and Brighton’s Supernormal festival. He has also played with a trio at The Rewire festival in Hague and the Mekausma Festival in Belgium, not to mention a short US tour in 2014. Benjamin’s sound combines acoustic sources with electronics and his impressive collection of around 8000 records, provides a backdrop of wide musical influences.

He operates from a small studio on an island just outside of Oslo, taking acoustic instrument recordings and treating them with effects to create electronic soundscapes. In Voice Frames, hardware synths, guitars and pedals, voice, field records, piano and Inga-Lill Farstad’s vocals make up the spine of this album. Its central themes of loss, isolation and time unfold over a range of intriguing compositions which draw out the sentimental mindset of their author.

Traits from previous albums are present, with some techniques and ideas having been borrowed and reframed into a new context. The melancholy in passing time is further shared through Voice Frames’ cover artwork; a photo Benjamin tool of his partner in Salema, a small Portuguese fishing village. It was shot through a wine bottle using an analogue Kodak camera and the series features throughout the packaging design.

Different moods and tones permeate this wondrous record as a weight of reflection halts your mind’s ability to focus on one element for too long. At times the voices being framed are through the people in distant field recordings, other times they might be through Inga-Lill’s ethereal singing or Benjamin’s own voice. They could be the voices of those around you or the artist’s memories. Perhaps they could even be your own voice?

Tracklist

1.	Voice Frames	5:50

2.	Captured Past	5:10

3.	Memory Path	3:00

4.	Reminiscence Bump	4:13

5.	Warmer Inside	3:22

6.	Dusty Hush	2:48

7.	Time Gestures	4:02

8.	Suspense Act	2:17

9.	Fragments Care	4:25

10.	Brighter Mind	4:04

11.	Forlorn Loss	2:18

Credits

released November 5, 2021

Written and produced by Benjamin Finger
Additional voice sounds by Inga-Lill Farstad
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by Benjamin Finger
Art and Design by Andrew Heath

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