Anomi, by Sonja Tofik

Anomi

by Sonja Tofik

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arboo Amazing sounds, like a blend of nordic folk and ambience. I hear some early The 3rd and the Mortal vibes in this. I'm glad it was suggested to me in the feed. Very calm and solemn, fitting the description on the page. Favorite track: Cindy.

freersounds Ambient goth? Dungeon synth? Graveyard chic? Anomi begins with cawing crows! Genre-based semantics aside, Anomi is a magical album that is certainly at the darker end of the experimental spectrum. Favorite track: The Earth Spirit.

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	1.	Anomi 02:55
	2.	Sky Trumpets 04:13
	3.	Cindy 04:30
	4.	All Errors Are Mine 03:24
	5.	Incessant 03:25
	6.	Graveyard 02:53
	7.	Night Changes Many Thoughts 03:51
	8.	The Earth Spirit 03:02
	9.	Unworld 05:26
	10.	Lullaby for the Newborn 02:00

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‘Anomi’ is Sonja Tofik’s first full-length LP, and a continuation of her debut ‘Neuros’. Anomi is the Swedish word for the sociological term anomie, first coined by french sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1893. Described as ‘the condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals’, he suggested that for societies to function and their individuals to prosper, they need to be driven by strong and distinct norms, both social and moral. If absent, individuals are exposed to anomie, and start to inhibit self-destructive behavior. Anomie is a state of suffering, an absence of affinity, both to the individual and to society – which creates dissonance in the human experience. It denies us the presence of death and disconnects humanity from its nature and inherent mysticism.

This model of explanation sparked interest in Sonja as being an interpretation of a spiritual presence in our monotonous present. In her work on ‘Anomi’, she uses music to delve into the notion of anomie, and what happens to us as citizens within a society restrained by rigid codes. She deliberately cultivates cliché symbolisms to examine the fracturing of emotions in this alienation of self, and how it affects our relationship to death. She also incorporates old folk songs in both Finnish and English and builds upon them – for instance ‘Sky Trumpets’, written in Finnish, is about the end of times and how only then can the hands of the working masses be set free. Using superimposed textures of synthesis, organ, concrete sounds and voice, she counters monotonous drones against more harmonic timbres to effectively summon these states of mind, through raw emotion, often with few elements and unobscured of any excess statements. ‘Anomi’ is her plea to resurrect mysticism into being alive and the wait it entails.

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released October 30, 2020

MOLOTON014
Composed, recorded and produced by Sonja Tofik in Stockholm and Berlin between 2019-2020
Mastered by Giovanni Conti at Artefacts Mastering, Berlin
Artwork by Viktor Fordell
Layout by Marlena Lampinen
Published with support of the Swedish Arts Council

Special thanks to Linus Hillborg, Marlena Lampinen, Viktor Fordell, Martin Lippmann and Cindy

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