Maverick, ambient electronic post-rock duo Aiming For Enrike have today released their stunning new double album Empty Airports via Jansen Records.

In celebration of the news, the band have released their double live single 'Feel No Threat/Absent Lovers (Live from Artilleriverkstedet)' which you can view here: https://youtu.be/85X0lL-Lnf8

Guitarist Simen Følstad Nilsen comments: "The title is a reference to two songs from the King Crimson record Beat, mainly because the guitar pattern in the first section is heavily inspired by 80s King Crimson. This is one of the songs on the record that starts out as one thing and then slowly morphs into something else."

Order the album here: https://orcd.co/aiming_for_enrike-empty_airports

Watch Aiming For Enrike live:

Feb 2: UK Glasgow The Hug and Pint
Feb 3: UK Leeds Wharf Chambers
Feb 4: UK London Signature Brew
Feb 5: UK London Crofters Rights
Feb 6: BE Brussels Le Lac
Feb 7: FR Paris Supersonic
Feb 8: FR Lyon Hard Rock Cafe
Feb 10: ES Tolosa Bonberenea
Feb 11: ES Madrid Wurlitzer
Feb 12: ES Barcelona Sala VOL
Feb 14: FR Toulouse Le Connexion
Feb 15: CH La Chaux-de-Fonds Bikini Test
Feb 17: SI Ljubljana Gala Hala
Feb 18: HR Zagreb KSET
Feb 19: HU Budapest Durer Kert
Feb 21: CZ Prague Underdogs
Feb 22: DE Leipzig Elipamanoke
Feb 24: DE Diez Gasthaus Schmidt
Feb 25: NL Haarlem Complexity Festival

It’s safe to say that Aiming For Enrike’s fame has come mostly thanks to their frenetic, wild and engaging live shows – having toured extensively in USA, India, Japan, Czech Republic, Norway, England and Germany for several years. Recently the duo have performed at the UK's esteemed ArcTanGent Festival, released an acclaimed Audiotree session, and toured with modern prog titans Leprous.

Previously known for noisy musical transformations and frenetic sonic attacks, Empty Airports marks a significant tonal shift for Aiming For Enrike. More electronic, more atmospheric and massive, the new album delves more deeply in the world of ambient than ever before.

A reflection and recognition of the stillness of COVID-life, Empty Airports was recorded during the strange, silent lockdown months of 2020 and 2021. The most spacious of Aiming For Enrike's work so far released, Empty Airports is also the duo's longest record, and their first double album.

Taking influence variously from the likes of Nils Frahm, Burial, Jon Hopkins, Sunn O))), Empty Airports' title touches on the stopped nature of the COVID world, a sense of the post-apocalyptic, and is a tip of the hat to Brian Eno's Music for Airports record.

Another stellar release in the canon of an already well-regarded forward-thinking group, Empty Airports proves beyond doubt that Aiming For Enrike live entirely in their own universe.

More info:
https://www.facebook.com/aimingforenrike/
https://aimingforenrike.bandcamp.com/
https://www.aimingforenrike.com/

Electronic ambient duo Aiming For Enrike celebrate new album with double live single

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