Eivind Opsvik Michelle Arcila A Thousand Ancestors Box Set Limited Edition Box Set Vinyl Cd

A Thousand Ancestors is the culmination of a long-standing collaboration betweenphotographer Michelle Arcila and musician Eivind Opsvik which synthesize the stronginfluence of visual imagery on music, and vice versa. Hailing from Costa Rica and Norway,two different countries with distinct cultural traditions and folklore, A Thousand Ancestorsexplores family history and the continuing influence of ancestral narratives on the presentgeneration.The project is a limited edition box set (numbered edition of 500) designed by Espen Fribergcontaining a ten-track vinyl LP (plus a CD and download card), ten photographic prints, eachof which correspond to a track on the record, and a poster. Released by Brooklyn based recordlabel; Loyal Label.The artists aim to slow time for the observer, and allow him/her to perhaps uncover distant,buried memories of their own during the encounter. A beautiful example of this can beexperienced in “A Strange Gratitude”-- the second track and print on A Thousand Ancestorspairs a steady, escalating tension of bass strings with a slightly ominous, dreamlike image oftwo silver-haired figures obscured by a thin veil of dying tree branches in the foreground, hazysnow-covered mountains stretching behind.