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Aftermath

by Ste van Holm

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Apart from music and film making, I am also very interested in both nuclear physics and urban exploration. All these four interests meet in 'Aftermath' which is a piece of music I originally created for a short film I did at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. After I finished the short film, I felt that I had not finished working with the atmosphere that had been present during the visit. So I spend some time further developing the music, adding chord sequences and dynamics. In the Chernobyl zone a lot of people referenced the book 'Roadside Picnic' by the Strugackij brothers while trying to pin the mood. I read the book and knew I wanted to do something about an alien zone. So I asked actor Veronica Walther Dam Jensen to put on a uniform and walk around the Værløse Air Base north of Copenhagen. After the filming I watched 'Blade Runner 2049' and instantly knew what color tone the music video should be. And then the production halted. I struggled with the lyrics and had no idea about the melody. A year and a half later I met russian artist Anna Richter and we decided to have an improvisational session at the Big Tower at Christiansø - a former sea fortress and canon tower, now a light house and museum - and the piece finally came together.

lyrics

Forboding skies
With tawny shadows
No one knows
what happened here

Brave or dumb
Well, I don’t know
The trees looks no different here
From the ones outside the fence

It’s easy to feel safe
Do you feel safe?
It’s too easy to feel safe
Do you feel safe?

Downwind we take the blame
For carelessness that isn’t ours
a price to pay concealed
in grey dust gently falling

It’s easy to feel safe
Did they make you feel safe?
It’s too easy to make you feel safe
Did they make you feel safe?

So why the guards
Why the wires
why the checkpoints
If not for an incomprehensable presence
Lurking

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released December 3, 2021
Music & Lyrics: Ste van Holm
Melody concieved and performed by: Anna Richter

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Ste van Holm Copenhagen, Denmark

Ste van Holm (born Stefan Holm, 1977) is a Danish musician and composer.
His musical upbringing came from British rock acts of the 70s like Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Genesis and Peter Gabriel, Alan Parsons Project, Brian Eno and King Crimson, but also from electronic acts like Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Vangelis and Klaus Schønning and more contemporary names like Massive Attack. ... more

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