everyone I love is sleeping and i love them so so much [LP]

Yara Asmar - everyone I love is sleeping and i love them so so much [LP]

Yara Asmar's new album presents 11 pieces recorded over a 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 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. 01. after all this time, Beirut 02. to die on any hill (if it_s easy enough to climb) 03. wooden giants and mechanical birds 04. in dandelion fields 05. of the always puzzle of living and doing 06. for now we leave the sky to the tyrants, and dig 07. everyone i love is sleeping and i love them so so much 08. the familiar scenography of electrons waltzing across the screen in your peripheral vision, you avoid its gaze like a tired husband you have outgrown 09. 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