Ziúr - Antifate
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No. PAN 120
Release Date: 7 May 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Antifate

Ziúr’s music has always been difficult to classify. A longtime fixture in Berlin’s nightlife, the musician, producer and DJ has cut through decades of threads to arrive on a sound that accurately represents her journey. She’s sung, played guitar and drums and reduced club music to a burning cinder; with “Antifate”, her third album under the Ziúr moniker, she approaches electronic music without any preciousness or reverence to genre.
2019’s acclaimed “ATØ” re-introduced songs to her canon, contorting her vocals over an undulating electronic backdrop. On “Antifate”, she takes this idea further, pushing abstracted pop forms into mists of digital euphoria and extracting unexpected instrumental flourishes from collapsing clouds of distorted rhythm. Electronic instrumentation is melted into acoustic sounds and vice-versa, creating a breathing organic universe that’s entirely Ziúr’s.

“Antifate” is an abstract reference to the mythical land of Cockaigne, a utopia where wine flows freely and houses are made of cake, that provided escapist fantasy for medieval peasants. As the space between our private worlds widens, this fantasy becomes alluring once more - a place where we feel free, with the people who allow us that freedom. With this in mind, Ziúr crafts a soundtrack that’s fantastical and magical, hinged on the idea of closeness and connection at a time when distance is mandatory.

Ghostly voices echo wordlessly over clattering beats and dubwise bass on opener ‘Alive, Unless?’, while the album’s title track sings a more epic fanfare, with a chorus of voices echoing into glittering synthesizer pearls and volcanic kicks. “Antifate” is almost even theatrical at times, something never more evident than on the Talk Talk-esque ‘Fringe Casual’ with its dreamy piano and plucked bass and on closing track ‘The Carry’, where flute is introduced into Ziúr’s rapidly expanding narrative.

It’s tempting to say that this is the album Ziúr has been destined to make, but “Antifate” rejects this concept. Rather, this is the album that Ziúr needed to make now, surrounded by the people that have been able to offer her the place to do it. In mapping out her mythical paradise, Ziúr has produced an album that is deeply tender and inescapably human. It’s an album about freedom, and she has never sounded so free.
The album is mixed by James Ginzburg & mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Stefan Fähler.

@ziurinhell

Antifate

Ziúr - Sister Lava (PAN 120)

The first full-length collaboration between Burning Pyre and Canadian Rifles, “The Snipe & The Clam” encapsulates a shared sensibility and vision. Initially seen together on the Vienna Press/Vaagner compilation “A Declaration” in 2019, which was followed up with a second piece last year on Burning Pyre’s Opal Tapes debut, “United Angels”, the two artists cultivate a unique aural world with a singular voice.

Taking a contemporary yet deeply romantic approach to ambient music, “The Snipe & The Clam” showcases a blend of luscious synth melodies and harmonics, set against a heavily organic dynamic backbone. An apt representation of both artists’ methods and modus operandi, opulent glimmering drones flow with a sense of narrative, contributing a magical watercolour-like quality to the album’s eight instrumental pieces. As if lightness met the restraint of a disciplined wrist - every sharp note a pensive flap of wings across its airy background.

“The Snipe & The Clam” often feels like an emotional exercise on the stoppage of time, gliding between loving gestures and precise crescendos, delivering both a flourish of exposition and a reflection on intimate moments. A definitive summit in each respective artists’ discographies until this point, “The Snipe & The Clam” is an elegy to tenderness and finding beauty in minute details.

A golden archway - come spring.

EN20

Recorded by Christopher Macarthur and Rui Andrade between Newcastle upon Tyne and Porto, 2020-2021

Mastered by John Hannon
Photo by Elisa Azevedo

The Snipe & The Clam

Burning Pyre & Canadian Rifles - Monza

Pitfall

DANIELLA LJUNGSBERG - AVIKO KNEW

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HRNS "Naomi"
Warm Winters Ltd. 001

‘Naomi’ - the debut album by Portuguese duo HRNS - flickers gently between vulnerability and security, between being here and being there. This is music for contemplative, tired moments, when the immensity of space seems most striking. And as planes continue to fly over our heads, we all slowly drift further and further apart. But not everything is lost; perhaps our paths will cross again one day.

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"There’s an impressionistic worldview behind this music, as if the listener is drifting through the world helplessly, surrounded on all sides by a hurricane of emotions every day. HRNS extract a mountain of suggested meaning and feeling from some relatively simple elements, presented calmly and patiently for you to soak up. Set aside some time to stick this one in the ghetto blaster after dark, and have a long, slow think." - Tristan Bath, The Quietus 

"A darkly glowing ambient delight...(which) offers sparkling meditations that shimmer like newly cracked geodes, dense and beautiful all at once." - Tiny Mix Tapes

Tracklist:

1. White Heron 	
2. You Will Never See The Same Water Twice 
3. Swan Palace	
4. Canadian Rifles
5. Prunes De Namur	
6. Eurostar 	
7. Angeles

WW_001

22 03 2019

Naomi

Angeles

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Taken from album 'Forma' released as LP and Digital

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'Taşın Kanayan Kalbi' by @okayvivian is a song taken from the forthcoming Okay Vivian's "Saye" Lp.

Music video - https://youtu.be/SstQvaBOzWE
Streaming platforms - https://ffm.to/tasin

Music written, produced and performed by Okay Vivian.

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Okay Vivian is the project of Turkish singer/producer Pervin Güzeldere. 
Shifting through experimental minimalist compositions to catchy pop elements; 
her music combines ethereal silent spaces with heavy beats, scattered vocals, 
breaths and whispers.

Since 2018 she has released two singles and an EP. Performed in Ankara, İstanbul and Berlin 
with her live A/V performance ‘Wildflowers That Cannot Move But Can Bend And Twist’.

https://soundcloud.com/okayvivian​
https://okayvivian.bandcamp.com​
https://www.facebook.com/okayvivianm/​
Okay Vivian on Spotify https://cutt.ly/KkjTbuC

Okay Vivian - Taşın Kanayan Kalbi [Video in description]

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Harness (stylised as HRNS) is the collaborative project of Rui P. Andrade & Afonso Arrepia Ferreira.

Angeles

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