The urgency of global climate change" and humanity's ignorance towards this topic is the fuel behind the formation of Maybe Not Tomorrow, santpoort's newest full-length album. Lush and dense in electronic production, santpoort not only provides vocals throughout the project, but also enlists some friends for the occasion.
While the instrumental layers and organic samples might sound relaxing and inviting, the message is quite urgent and strongly worded. "We really don’t have much time in this world to personally improve it," santpoort says. "I have reconsidered my lifestyle, that of a wandering stone in the world - and have been (up)cycling objects and food in my everyday life. Like using the inside of a washing machine as a lamp, or growing the most food we can. I go dumpster diving once or twice a week to rescue perfectly fine food and I started a vegetable garden in my backyard in the middle of a gigantic city."
This album is a garden in the concrete. A seed of hope (urgency, yes, but hope) beneath the stone. Forward thinking and forever unique, santpoort's album goes from recording the sound of a moving escalator at a shopping mall to the rhythm of a car wiper, showing a rainy and murky world outside. Think toy pianos, wind chimes, glasses full of water, vases full of plants, the daily sounds of a coffee marker, taps of a lantern, washer beeps, the peel of a banana. Nothing is off limits and everything feels natural and curious within santpoort's world.
