I, by Gnäw

I

by Gnäw

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Limited Edition Cassette (only 40 copies world-wide)
Cassette + Digital Album
Pro-dubbed apricot coloured cassette with on-body shell print, pro-printed inlay, in a clear library case

Limited to 40 copies world-wide

Catalogue No: CN169

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1.	Mirha 02:44
2.	Waters of Ether 06:37
3.	گمگشته چوپان 04:51	buy track
4.	حلاج 04:28
5.	Marras 08:07

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The Finnish-Iranian duo Gnäw create improvised, experimental music utilizing traditional local instruments and modular synthesizers.

'I' is their debut album, consisting of effortless, free channeling tracks that have appeared as a result of musical dialogue and contemplation.

“We believe in improvisation as a tool for mind-travel and alteration. In many ways the tracks on this album are as photographs, glimpses of light, energy, captured. For us the results portray landscapes that are both familiar and adventitious."

"The next few years are likely to be dominated by collaborations recorded remotely during Covid, but Gnäw, Iranian born Arash Ghasem and Finland’s Simo Hakalisto managed to make these tracks face-to-face in Prague. Ghasem plays a selection of traditional instruments, setar, pump organ and percussion, processed through Hakalisto’s modular synths. The acoustic sounds dominate, whether it’s the brittle plucks of ‘Mirha’, the pulsing percussion driving ‘Waters Of Ether’, or the languid flurries of ‘Marras’. The meditations on eastern scales are effortlessly encased in electronic warmth and drenched vocals, synthetic and organic becoming completely symbiotic. Hakalisto says Ciat-Lonbarde Tocantes instruments – electronic devices where pitch is controlled by moving hands on a touch pad – were a big part of the compositions. That tactility is keenly felt, as though the pair hoisted a big block of esoteric sound in the air and moulded it into these blissfully scorched, psychedelic jams." The Quietus thequietus.com/articles/30034-prolaps-rose-bolton-moon-glyph-review

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released June 11, 2021

Music by A. Ghasemi and S. Hakalisto
Mastered by Ondřej Ježek at Jámor Studio

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