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ARTIST
TITLE
Home Recordings 2018-2021
FORMAT
Cassette

LABEL
CATALOG #
HMR 020CS HMR 020CS
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/4/2022

Yara Asmar is a 25-year-old multi-instrumentalist, video artist, and puppeteer currently living in Beirut with her cat, Mushroom. Hive Mind Records bring you this wonderful debut album of music she recorded at home on cassettes and a mobile phone over the past few years. On it you'll hear her play a range of instruments including the piano, her grandmother's old accordion which she found in the attic of her grandparent's home in Lebanon, the metallophone, synth, and various deconstructed and disassembled toy pianos and music boxes. You'll also hear her field-recordings of hymns sung in churches around Lebanon which Yara has turned into waltzes. These beautifully melodic works contain recognizable elements of classical music wrapped in layers of tape hiss, synth wash, reverb, and delay, and disturbed by the metallic percussive sounds of the dissembled music boxes. The atmosphere of melancholy that pervades the album should be familiar to anyone living in the 21st century. All music composed, performed, recorded and, produced by Yara Asmar at her home in Beirut. Mastered by Marc Teare. Photography by Yara Asmar. Design by Marc Teare.