ABADIR
Ison
Boomkat Product Review:
ABADIR returns with a new album for SVBKVLT, inspired by the choral music he heard as a child growing up in Heliopolis, Cairo, where he attended church for Sunday mass and on Christian holidays. A rich sonic tapestry of tangled memories, ‘Ison’ is aided by modernist electronic gestures that veer from ghosted liturgical vignettes to melodic, rhythmic and padded IDM variants, tipped if yr into anything from Lee Gamble to Art of Noise, Gabber Modus Operandi to Manuel Göttsching.
'Ison' takes field recordings from Coptic, Syriac, Maronite, Greek Orthodox and Catholic choirs and blurs them into what the artist describes as "a contemporary Sunday mass”. What starts with church bells and location-unspecific found sounds, soon tumbles into gently euphoric, synth and drum explorations, swerving from a sort of E2 E4 arpeggiated bleep on ‘Sacraments’ to a slowed gabber on ‘Agios O Theos’. On the exceptional ‘Mois De Marie’, we’re suddenly in a whirlpool of scattered drums and microtonal melodies serviced by monk chants conjured from the aether.
ABADIR makes it clear that his work isn’t intended as “a cultural relic for the exoticizing gaze”, and so each piece is given artistic and poetic license to veer deep into a pool of blurred memories, resulting in stylistic diversions that are as far removed from classic liturgical canon as can be. By the time you hit majestic penultimate number ‘Holy Week’, expect to find more in common with Sakamoto or Art of Noise than Arvo Pärt.
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Boomkat Product Review:
ABADIR returns with a new album for SVBKVLT, inspired by the choral music he heard as a child growing up in Heliopolis, Cairo, where he attended church for Sunday mass and on Christian holidays. A rich sonic tapestry of tangled memories, ‘Ison’ is aided by modernist electronic gestures that veer from ghosted liturgical vignettes to melodic, rhythmic and padded IDM variants, tipped if yr into anything from Lee Gamble to Art of Noise, Gabber Modus Operandi to Manuel Göttsching.
'Ison' takes field recordings from Coptic, Syriac, Maronite, Greek Orthodox and Catholic choirs and blurs them into what the artist describes as "a contemporary Sunday mass”. What starts with church bells and location-unspecific found sounds, soon tumbles into gently euphoric, synth and drum explorations, swerving from a sort of E2 E4 arpeggiated bleep on ‘Sacraments’ to a slowed gabber on ‘Agios O Theos’. On the exceptional ‘Mois De Marie’, we’re suddenly in a whirlpool of scattered drums and microtonal melodies serviced by monk chants conjured from the aether.
ABADIR makes it clear that his work isn’t intended as “a cultural relic for the exoticizing gaze”, and so each piece is given artistic and poetic license to veer deep into a pool of blurred memories, resulting in stylistic diversions that are as far removed from classic liturgical canon as can be. By the time you hit majestic penultimate number ‘Holy Week’, expect to find more in common with Sakamoto or Art of Noise than Arvo Pärt.
Boomkat Product Review:
ABADIR returns with a new album for SVBKVLT, inspired by the choral music he heard as a child growing up in Heliopolis, Cairo, where he attended church for Sunday mass and on Christian holidays. A rich sonic tapestry of tangled memories, ‘Ison’ is aided by modernist electronic gestures that veer from ghosted liturgical vignettes to melodic, rhythmic and padded IDM variants, tipped if yr into anything from Lee Gamble to Art of Noise, Gabber Modus Operandi to Manuel Göttsching.
'Ison' takes field recordings from Coptic, Syriac, Maronite, Greek Orthodox and Catholic choirs and blurs them into what the artist describes as "a contemporary Sunday mass”. What starts with church bells and location-unspecific found sounds, soon tumbles into gently euphoric, synth and drum explorations, swerving from a sort of E2 E4 arpeggiated bleep on ‘Sacraments’ to a slowed gabber on ‘Agios O Theos’. On the exceptional ‘Mois De Marie’, we’re suddenly in a whirlpool of scattered drums and microtonal melodies serviced by monk chants conjured from the aether.
ABADIR makes it clear that his work isn’t intended as “a cultural relic for the exoticizing gaze”, and so each piece is given artistic and poetic license to veer deep into a pool of blurred memories, resulting in stylistic diversions that are as far removed from classic liturgical canon as can be. By the time you hit majestic penultimate number ‘Holy Week’, expect to find more in common with Sakamoto or Art of Noise than Arvo Pärt.
Boomkat Product Review:
ABADIR returns with a new album for SVBKVLT, inspired by the choral music he heard as a child growing up in Heliopolis, Cairo, where he attended church for Sunday mass and on Christian holidays. A rich sonic tapestry of tangled memories, ‘Ison’ is aided by modernist electronic gestures that veer from ghosted liturgical vignettes to melodic, rhythmic and padded IDM variants, tipped if yr into anything from Lee Gamble to Art of Noise, Gabber Modus Operandi to Manuel Göttsching.
'Ison' takes field recordings from Coptic, Syriac, Maronite, Greek Orthodox and Catholic choirs and blurs them into what the artist describes as "a contemporary Sunday mass”. What starts with church bells and location-unspecific found sounds, soon tumbles into gently euphoric, synth and drum explorations, swerving from a sort of E2 E4 arpeggiated bleep on ‘Sacraments’ to a slowed gabber on ‘Agios O Theos’. On the exceptional ‘Mois De Marie’, we’re suddenly in a whirlpool of scattered drums and microtonal melodies serviced by monk chants conjured from the aether.
ABADIR makes it clear that his work isn’t intended as “a cultural relic for the exoticizing gaze”, and so each piece is given artistic and poetic license to veer deep into a pool of blurred memories, resulting in stylistic diversions that are as far removed from classic liturgical canon as can be. By the time you hit majestic penultimate number ‘Holy Week’, expect to find more in common with Sakamoto or Art of Noise than Arvo Pärt.
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Edition of 100 copies only, includes a download of the album dropped to your account. Artwork: Luke Griffiths Photography: Omar Elkafrawy Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Boomkat Product Review:
ABADIR returns with a new album for SVBKVLT, inspired by the choral music he heard as a child growing up in Heliopolis, Cairo, where he attended church for Sunday mass and on Christian holidays. A rich sonic tapestry of tangled memories, ‘Ison’ is aided by modernist electronic gestures that veer from ghosted liturgical vignettes to melodic, rhythmic and padded IDM variants, tipped if yr into anything from Lee Gamble to Art of Noise, Gabber Modus Operandi to Manuel Göttsching.
'Ison' takes field recordings from Coptic, Syriac, Maronite, Greek Orthodox and Catholic choirs and blurs them into what the artist describes as "a contemporary Sunday mass”. What starts with church bells and location-unspecific found sounds, soon tumbles into gently euphoric, synth and drum explorations, swerving from a sort of E2 E4 arpeggiated bleep on ‘Sacraments’ to a slowed gabber on ‘Agios O Theos’. On the exceptional ‘Mois De Marie’, we’re suddenly in a whirlpool of scattered drums and microtonal melodies serviced by monk chants conjured from the aether.
ABADIR makes it clear that his work isn’t intended as “a cultural relic for the exoticizing gaze”, and so each piece is given artistic and poetic license to veer deep into a pool of blurred memories, resulting in stylistic diversions that are as far removed from classic liturgical canon as can be. By the time you hit majestic penultimate number ‘Holy Week’, expect to find more in common with Sakamoto or Art of Noise than Arvo Pärt.
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