Here and here by Laura Kampman

 

New record by Laura Kampman is going to be released next week by Belgian label Futura Resistenza in a very interesting format which is a handkerchief with a graphic design by Iver Kim together with a digital release. 

Laura has recorded most of the parts herself apart from flute which was recorded by Iver Kim.

It’s a neat set of songs that hold a special way to treatise the instruments and record them in a natural, direct sort of way, without too much processing. It puts you as a listener closer to the actual artist, which altogether makes the connection immediately intimate.

It is a double single but somewhat it feels like a continuation or re-emergence of Laura after her previous album ‘’Coming into daily life’’ has been released. It  has happened after a major loss in her life and therefore brings a certain weight and importance of this current record.

Subtle guitar and a flute set across a natural recording environment, poetic and gentle – both dreamy and expressing sadness and brightness at the same time – it is definitely a good idea for contingency plan towards consolation and healing. A beautiful piece…hopefully it will be followed by something more.

 

What a strange thing, to have someone live in your mind for a while. To take up a space so large you’d think they could walk in at any time and ask you: who are you waiting for?

It feels as though the people we’ve lost never truly leave us. Someone you deeply loved, or were just about to love. A friend, a lover, a parent. They remain with us, shaping how we move through the world and appearing in the moments we least expect. You’re making new memories for two, duplicating it. Placing an imaginary them right here and here and there too.

“Here and here,” the new double single by Laura Kampman, grew out of sitting with that feeling. Her previous release, “Coming Into Daily Life,” followed her gradual reemergence into the world after the loss of her father. It carried a raw honesty that resonated deeply with listeners and was named one of Boomkat’s favourite releases of 2024. “Here and here” continues Laura’s personal interrogation, but this time sees her focus shift towards the delicate ways in which people remain with us, the marks they leave, the moments that linger, and the warmth we feel even when they are no longer around.

Written, recorded and mixed entirely by Kampman, the project holds a dear intimacy. Soft guitars and gentle analogue synthesizer textures sit quietly beneath her voice, while field recordings and small voice notes drift through the songs. The flute passage, recorded by friend and close collaborator Iver Kim, helps lift the tracks into a wider plain, adding a new sense of compositional shape to the work. That same mood is reflected in the project’s B-side, “Flute Song,” drawn from Kim’s original recording and holding all the quiet atmosphere that surrounded the project as it formed.

“Here and here” reflects on how we carry people with us, through love, through loss, and in our memories. Across these two songs, Laura Kampman guides us through an intimate landscape of remembrance, where presence and absence softly blur. 

credits

releases March 31, 2026

Written, recorded, and mixed by Laura Kampman

Flute on “Here and here” recorded by Iver Kim

B-side “Flute Song” based on an original recording by Iver Kim

Field recordings and voice notes by Laura Kampman

Artwork drawn by Iver Kim

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Futura Resistenza

Brussels/Rotterdam, 2026

https://futuraresistenza.bandcamp.com/album/here-and-here