{"product_id":"faten-kanaan-diary-of-a-candle","title":"Faten Kanaan - Diary Of A Candle","description":"\u003cp\u003eLP - Limited Edition 'Celadon' Green Colour Vinyl, DL Card Included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMinimal and nuanced, Diary of a Candle is a consoling, melodic suite from acclaimed experimental composer, musician, and producer Faten Kanaan.\u003cbr\u003eOn this album, Faten uses counterpoint as a narrative tool to create music that is mysterious, smudgy, and deeply melodic.\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003eComposing intuitively, her music creates its own world — one that isn't easily categorised.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiary of a Candle is punctuated with tender woodwinds and richly-layered strings, touched by the hazy atmospheres of 1970s\/1980s films.\u003cbr\u003eIts understated heart-on-sleeve romanticism follows the rhythm of nature: it bends in the breeze, drifts through the air, and settles on the ground.\u003cbr\u003eThe ambiance is not an escapism, but the re-focusing of a lens through which humans are no longer the protagonists.\u003cbr\u003eInstead, a landscape's intimate details become the central figures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003eSome of the album titles are inspired by East-Asian rites and folkloric superstitions, often related to nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor fans of: Kali Malone, Steve Reich, William Basinski, Sarah Davachi, Stars Of The Lid, , Mary Lattimore and Oneohtrix Point Never.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FIRE RECORDS","offers":[{"title":"Limited Edition Celadon Green Vinyl","offer_id":53207306076487,"sku":"TRI-66105","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/8fb720005c51060949352dad8c4993e3.jpg?v=1769381357","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/faten-kanaan-diary-of-a-candle","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}