Yara Asmar
Everyone I Love Is Sleeping And I Love Them So So Much (LP)
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Yara Asmar’s new album, “everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much”, presents 11 pieces recorded over the past year between the small town of Alfred in upstate New York and Beirut. These sometimes fragile and tentative sound sketches reflect the times as Yara steps out, as if onto ice, into a new life on a new continent. She works with unfamiliar instruments, new materials and new sounds to build on her intimate style; homemade mechanical music boxes and a personal archive of family recordings form the backbone of its delicate textures. Asmar explores the peculiar resonance of the metallophone and her collection of deconstructed toy pianos, and guides her music into ever more surreal territories. The result is a work that is dreamlike, fragmentary and strangely timeless.
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Markings: 0231455 306810E2/A 02341356 3036810/A "Yara Asmar’s new album, “everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much”, presents 11 pieces recorded over the past year between the small town of Alfred in upstate New York and Beirut. These sometimes fragile and tentative sound sketches reflect the times as Yara steps out, as if onto ice, into a new life on a new continent during a time of tragedy, turmoil and upheaval. She works with unfamiliar instruments, new materials and new…
| 1 | fter all this time, Beirut | ||
| 2 | to die on any hill (if it's easy enough to climb) | ||
| 3 | wooden giants and mechanical birds (feat. John Murchison and Gideon Forbes) | ||
| 4 | in dandelion fields | ||
| 5 | of the always puzzle of living and doing | ||
| 6 | for now we leave the sky to the tyrants, and dig | ||
| 7 | everyone I know is sleeping and I love them so so much | ||
| 8 | the familiar scenography of electrons waltzing across the screen in your peripheral vision, you avoid its gaze like a tired husband you have outgrown | ||
| 9 | there are glorious labyrinths in the ground for those with the claws to find them | ||
| 10 | you saw what you were looking at and you touched what you were touching | ||
| 11 | sounds from home |
