Ayn Il Widen (or Għajn il-Widen) is Kurt Buttigieg and Carla Said. Originally from Malta but now based in Brussels, Belgium

This album was composed in 2019 and revisited it during the Covid-19 lockdown, as things like day jobs, trousers and personal hygiene became increasingly distant memories. It is built around field recordings but put together in a period of confinement, location-based but home-bound.

Over the years we took recordings of places, things and moments. They are played unprocessed, processed or very processed to the point that they are used as instruments. These come from sources as disparate as a dormant volcano outside Olot, Catalonia to a hawker centre in Singapore. Melodies and rhythms are introduced, sometimes disappearing as quickly as they appear.

The sounds are edited using digital and analog techniques with no distinction or hierarchy between them.


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Released on limited edition pro-dubbed cassette, 70 copies. 
Free digital download with every cassette. 

Design and illustration: Nina Cosco, www.instagram.com/nina_cosco/
Released by Complex Holiday, CH001

How to remain in perpetual contact with your surroundings

Self-interrupt

Fount

With Peire

Vinyl version: comphol.bandcamp.com/album/worn-2

~'Worn' was written in the summer of 2019 and was recorded using a Yamaha MT3X multitrack cassette recorder.
The cassette tape itself was an old cassette tape which I used to record voice memos on when I was little.

The recording process involved the recording of several sketches, which I then revisited and overdubbed every week over the course of 2019's summer.

Robert Farrugia - Tlellix

Itinerant label for sound and print, founded in 2020.
Currently anchored in Malta and Brussels.
Contact : complexholidaylabel@gmail.com

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