KIM WARSEN
Musician, Composer. Lyricist
& Experimental Fiilmmaker
KIM WARSEN
Musician, Composer. Lyricist
& Experimental Fiilmmaker
Extract from the short film "TV as rusty wall" (2006)
NEWS
2024
FLOAT Pt 2
Single / WAR SAN
New album FLOAT will be released 18th of December by Transnational Records.
The second single to the album, FLOAT Pt. 2, is available on all digital platforms the 26th of November.
2023
THE STRANGER
Single / War San
New single "The Stranger" is out now on all digital platforms.
2023
CARABANCHEL PRISON
Soundtrack EP & Short Film
After 17 years this project is finally ready. The images were filmed inside of the notorious spanish prison in 2007, a year before it was demolished. The film is released together with a new made soundtrack published by Transnational Records.
More interviews and reviews below.
Carabanchel Prison invites us to reflect on the fact that those days are over now,
and looks to a brighter future. It traces a line – quite literally – from confinement to exit,
and to freedom. If only this was possible for more historical dates and places.
11th August 2023
/Christopher Nosnibor
Read full review from Aural Aggravation
Hubo una época, no hace tanto tiempo, en la que las cárceles habitaban los barrios de nuestras ciudades,
formaban parte del paisaje urbano y nos recordaban a todos que podíamos entrar en esa dimensión paralela oscura y maloliente.
Hoy eso ha cambiado, pese a tener una población penitenciaria enorme, proporcionalmente mayor a la que hubo en muchas décadas pasadas,
y necesitamos a artistas como Kim Warsen para ofrecernos paseos por lo liminal, por las ruinas de una cárcel que,
de forma complementaria, también nos muestra las ruinas de nuestra libertad.
17th August 2023
/Pablo García aka Pablo und Destruktion
Short Film
CARABANCHEL PRISON
The film portrays a person painting a line from the prison's epicenter to across the wall. The abstract textures that
drown the images are created by streams of water. The film was shot in 2006, inside the prison of Carabanchel,
Madrid. The prison had then been closed and abandoned for almost 10 years. It was finally demolished in 2008.
The tapes were edited in 2023, 17 years after its making.
The film features Ragnar Bey as the painter. Original Soundtrack made by WAR SAN and released on Transnational Records.
A film by Kim Warsen.
Format: MiniDV / 4:3. Length 10:59 min.CARABANCHEL PRISON
Extracts from the Short Film
INTERVIEW
CARABANCHEL PRISON
INTERVIEW
CARABANCHEL PRISON
EP Soundtrack
CARABANCHEL PRISON
"Almost spiritual", "Blends contemplation with optimism"
// Aural Aggravation, Christopher Nosnibor 2023
2023
WAR ZEN
Comic by Lem Castaneda & Kim Warsen
Back in 2014 spanish illustrator Lem Castaneda asked for a script for a comic, which resulted in Warsen creating a diary that mixes his country life withdrawn from social interaction with magic realism. The first two chapters are now available here.
Goldstein Now
HOLD THE LINE
Official Video / 2023
New video for the upcoming album "Pure Raw Naked Fraud" is out now.
REVIEW
FLOAT Pt 1 in HYMN / 2022
"Nybrobaserade Kim Warsén aka War San – med ett förflutet i banden Ginferno och Los Cuantos – har rönt en hel del framgångar med sin ambientdoftande solomusik och nya singeln ”Float, Pt. 1” borde ge Warsén än fler lyssnare. Nämnda singel är 20 minuter rent guld".
/ HYMN Music Magazine, Daniel Andersson on the single Float Pt. 1 2022
Transnational Records
FLOAT Pt 1
EP / Single 2022 / War San
Float Pt 1, a twenty minute piece of instrumental music, is now available on all digital platforms. The first part of the piece was inspired by the legendary soundtrack "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss, best known to be the theme for Francis Ford Coppola´s "2001, A Space Odyssey".
2022
COCA MEDITATION
Experimental Video
Another project that took several years to finish is now released. Based on the absurd selfmade task of filming Coca Cola signs at every travel during a year, it raises questions about repetition, perception, colonialization and western culture. Music by the mystic George Gurdjieff.
REVIEW
FE in Swedish Magazine Barometern / 2021
Kupula Art México
FE
Single 2021 / War San
New single "Fe" is now available on all digital platforms and forms part of the International Art Exhibition "Hope" created by the Mexican art centre Kupula. Long time colaborator, the syrian violinist Amir Trabulsi, has recorded the violin.
REVIEW
LORTBRON in Echoes & Dust / 2020
PRESS
LORTBRON / 2020
Kalmarposten
(Intervju)
“Aftonland kommer från en dikt av Pär Lagerqvist. Andra singeln Kungshall är direkt döpt efter en stadsdel i Nybro. (...) Sibyllan är också en roman av Pär Lagerqvist som handlar om att man inte ser det som finns framför en förrän man får distans till det…”
(Recension)
Låttitlar som ”Vid stigen stjärnor låg” och ”Aftonland” både beskriver och förstärker känslan av melankoli kombinerat med något vackert jag inte riktigt kan sätta ord på, något jag gissar är precis det upphovsmannen varit ute efter.
Barometern
(Intervju)
"När vi lever i en tid där allt blir mer och mer tillrättalagt känns det viktigt att på något litet diskret sätt göra motstånd"
INTERVIEW & LIVE
Sveriges Radio P4 / 2020
Transantional Records
Album 2020 / War San
New album "Lortbron" is now available on all digital platforms. The album is losely based on Warsen´s homwtown Nybro in the south of Sweden and also works as a personal psychomagical ritual that ties together his family over generations.
A longer text about the album can be found under War San on this page.
INTERVIEW
ERA MAGAZINE
New Religious Movements / Silent Talk / 2019
REVIEW
New Religous Movements in Ruta66/ 2019
"Sparkling literary exorcism", "Ode to restlessness", "One of this years album"
//RUTA66, Emilio R. Cascajosa
Batir Records
Album 2019 / War San
War San´s debut album "New Religious Movements" is now available on Vinyl and digitally on Batir Records homepage and bandcamp. The songs were originally recorded back in 2012 in the studio ZTA in Torrijos and was produced by Carlos Torronado (VETA, PAL), together with Ojo (La Débil, Nudozurdo, +øc), Borja Martín-Andino (La Débil, +øc) and Ana Galletero (VETA, Travolta, Joaquín Pascal).
Listen to an interview about the record here.
Lovemonk
Album 2019 / War San
New album "Silent Talk" is now available on all digital platforms and on CD by spanish label Lovemonk. Released the same week as "New Religious Movements", this album was recorded after 5 years of musical silence and can be seen as a complementary dialog with the former record. This time the recording was done at Warsen´s own studio in the swedish forrest and counting with the violins of Amir Trabulsi, along with other syrian musicians and a duet with Amir´s father Ismael Trabulsi.
Contact
kimwarsen@gmail.com / warsanmusic@gmail.com
