Modern Paralysis

Voice Of Nagging Suspicion

Discrepancy tries to portray duality of emotional reactions on the basis of feelings that seem distant and discrete from each other but are actually very close and relevant. “Dullness of An Egoistic Subservient” is an expression of nothingness arises from intensity, sharpness with no acceptable reason, repetition of disconnections, blank space with jittering noise and all these feelings in a perceptual time frame that can literally last for a short period of time or corrode in a lifetime. The track discusses the topic with a strong hidden “I” perspective, which helps the composer call himself an egoist, and the pleasure of obeying which he sees as “being a subservient”. On another side of the duality, the track “An Entreaty To The Undertones of Suicide” gets the utmost enjoyment, melancholy and strength out of experiencing the freedom of expressing compressed and interfered emotions in the most intemerate, intimate and spoiled ways by using a single unison melody performed by synths filling the frequency spectrum.
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All songs performed, mixed by Barış Ergün 
Mastered by Adham Farid 
Cover Art Design: Jeff

An Entreaty To The Undertones of Suicide

Dullness Of An Egoistic Subservient

Barış Ergün, after making his entrance into experimental electronic music scene with his debut album ‘Modern Paralysis’ (2018), releases his 2nd studio album named ‘Impaired Singularity’ via Shalgam Records. Depicting a way of transforming from entropy into negentropy, the album consists of 7 tracks that attract attention with their holistic concept, dark and bold sound textures.Barış, who is the producer of the album himself, collaborates with James Ginzburg for mastering process, whom we know as the founder of Subtext Records and Emptyset. 

The thoughts of Barış about his album are as follows: Impaired Singularity is not just an effort for creating melodies or soundscapes but a result of the chaos and the elimination that I’ve tried to reveal by digging into the ways and effects of thinking upon life and living itself as an individual. I was in Istanbul, Kadıköy when I first started spreading seeds of the album. I thought there happening was a sound universe that was much more inclusive and capable of touching various emotional states at different extremes. But later, I felt congestion and corruption of quarantine conditions of Istanbul and I did not want to drown myself under it anymore. Thereafter I temporarily moved to the Black Sea, to a village house and...  more
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Written in 2019 in İstanbul, Turkey 
Recorded in 2020 in İstanbul and Trabzon, Turkey 
Engineered by Barış Ergün 
Written for computer, synthesizer, vocal, trumpet, percussion and guitar amp 
Mastered by James Ginzburg – Multiverse 
Cover art & design by Ozan Tezvaran 
Thanks to Oruç, Lawrence, James, Tarık, Ben