Today we want to pay tribute to a release from the past year. “Graveyard Processions” by Kai Fagaschinski & Yan Jun came out late 2024 as Vinyl LP with excellent aesthetics and design on NI VU NI CONNU.

This release is the first joint recording by Kai Fagaschinski and Yan Jun. The Berlin-based clarinettist and the sound artist and vocalist from Beijing blur the lines between improvisation on the one hand and record production as well as composition-after-the-fact on the other. The four pieces on “Graveyard Processions” work primarily with Jun’s voice and Fagaschinski’s playing and also add a plethora of other sounds to dizzying effect. This is the sound of two prolific artists—the former active across different media and as a vocal experimentalist, the latter a fixture in Berlin’s Free Scene—vastly expanding upon their possibilities. Kristoffer Patrick Cornils

Yan Jun – voice, slippers, objects & field recordings
Kai Fagaschinski – clarinet, voice, umbrellas, objects & field recordings

Collectively thought-out and recorded during summer of 2022 mostly at Kai’s flat and neighbourhood in Berlin.
Recorded and mixed by Kai Fagaschinski with Yan Jun.
Mastered by Andreas LUPO Lubich at Loop-O Mastering.