Faten Kanaan announces new album ‘Diary Of A Candle’, a consoling, melodic suite, minimal and nuanced from the acclaimed experimental composer, musician, and producer. Listen/pre-order here: https://fatenkanaan.lnk.to/DoaCID
Music, Mixing, and Video by Faten Kanaan
Mastering by Heba Kadry
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.
On the 17th October Faten Kanaan is releasing a new album, Diary of a Candle, on Fire Records. Minimal and nuanced, Diary of a Candle is a consoling, melodic suite – 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.
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