Faten Kanaan - Diary Of A Candle Faten Kanaan
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LP - Limited Edition 'Celadon' Green Colour Vinyl, DL Card Included.
Minimal and nuanced, Diary of a Candle is a consoling, melodic suite from acclaimed experimental composer, musician, and producer Faten Kanaan.
On this album, Faten uses counterpoint as a narrative tool to create music that is mysterious, smudgy, and deeply melodic.
From the repetitive structures of modern minimalism and early music/baroque influences — to more languid textural ebbs and tides — there's a warmth in her use of synthesizers that gives her work a curiously timeless feel.
Composing intuitively, her music creates its own world — one that isn't easily categorised.
Diary of a Candle is punctuated with tender woodwinds and richly-layered strings, touched by the hazy atmospheres of 1970s/1980s films.
Its understated heart-on-sleeve romanticism follows the rhythm of nature: it bends in the breeze, drifts through the air, and settles on the ground.
The ambiance is not an escapism, but the re-focusing of a lens through which humans are no longer the protagonists.
Instead, a landscape's intimate details become the central figures.
With the sparseness of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s 1982 album Music for Nine Post Cards as a starting-point influence, Faten's music exudes a wistful yet hopeful sentiment, honouring moments of beauty in the world around us.
Some of the album titles are inspired by East-Asian rites and folkloric superstitions, often related to nature.
For fans of: Kali Malone, Steve Reich, William Basinski, Sarah Davachi, Stars Of The Lid, , Mary Lattimore and Oneohtrix Point Never.
Track List
A1 Afternoon
A2 Celadon
A3 Tsukumogami (Sensu)
A4 Book of Changes
A5 Supercore
A6 Acorns
B1 Soseol
B2 Alcoyana-Capri
B3 Scene for a Wooden Room
B4 Sondol Baram
B5 Barjees
B6 Naming the Cloud (Version 2)
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