Diary of a Candle (Celadon Green Vinyl LP)
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Minimal and nuanced, Diary of a Candle is a consoling, melodic suite from acclaimed experimental composer, musician, and producer Faten Kanaan. On this album, 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.
Diary of a Candle is punctuated 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.
Tracklist:
1. Afternoon
2. Celadon
3. Tsukumogami (Sensu)
4. Book of Changes
5. Supercore
6. Acorns
7. Soseol
8. Alcoyana-Capri
9. Scene for a Wooden Room
10. Sondol Baram
11. Barjees
12. Naming the Cloud (Version 2)