cleveland
ethereal and melting tones, arising from nothing and floating back to the source. haunting, warm, icy, sinewy, stretched out, burned away melodies drifting out to the horizon. 100% recommend blind buying this one and letting it carry you away.
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Cassette + Digital Album
3rd and final pressing. Edition of 70 cassettes, sold exclusively on Ruptured's Bandcamp page. 27 minutes of audio per side. Artwork by Imad Kaafarani, design by Yara Asmar.
The third edition of Stuttering Music comes with Side A / Side B full color stickers.
Super Ferro music grade tape, with Magnolia shell, square hub window, oxide leader, pop tabs, and full color sticker for each side.
Each cassette is packaged in a thick O-Card on 14-point board w/ CMYK full color print, and delivered in a sealed plastic bag for added protection.
Includes unlimited streaming of Stuttering Music
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/96kHz.
ships out within 10 days
edition of 70
Purchasable with gift card
$12USDor more
Cassette + Digital Album
Edition of 70 cassettes, sold exclusively on Ruptured's Bandcamp page. 27 minutes of audio per side.
Artwork by Imad Kaafarani, design by Yara Asmar.
The first edition of Stuttering Music comes with a blank Magnolia-type shell.
Super Ferro music grade tape, with Magnolia shell, square hub window, oxide leader, and pop tabs.
Each cassette is packaged in a thick O-Card on 14-point board w/ CMYK full color print, and delivered in a sealed plastic bag for added protection.
A truly unique product and collector's item. Assembled in Canada. Digital download included.
Includes unlimited streaming of Stuttering Music
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/96kHz.
ships out within 10 days
edition of 70
7 remaining
Purchasable with gift card
$12USDor more
Limited Edition Cassette (2nd pressing)
Cassette + Digital Album
2nd pressing. Edition of 70 cassettes, sold exclusively on Ruptured's Bandcamp page. 27 minutes of audio per side. Artwork by Imad Kaafarani, design by Yara Asmar.
The second edition of Stuttering Music comes with Side A / Side B transparent stickers.
Super Ferro music grade tape, with Magnolia shell, square hub window, oxide leader, pop tabs, and transparent sticker for each side. Each cassette is packaged in a thick O-Card on 14-point board w/ CMYK full color print, and delivered in a sealed plastic bag for added protection.
Includes unlimited streaming of Stuttering Music
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
"Asmar's music is an unravelling of solidity. Metals, electronics and even the human form have their edges tugged apart, pooling the innards of objects into an amassment of indefinable sentiment, of fuzzy and fallible memory, of whistles like connective ropes hurled into an idealised elsewhere. Her melodies are gorgeous but never vividly asserted, instead appearing like happenstance cloud formations, inciting the listener's own pattern-recognition powers in order to be fully realised." – Jack Chuter, Attn Magazine
"Like the dreamlike atmospheres in Brian Eno and Harold Budd’s The Pearl or the delicate, vibrant melancholia found in the abstract collaborations of Ryuichi Sakomoto and Alva Noto, here Asmar creates a continuous flow that captures a crouching sense of nostalgia for a more livable life (…) The fusion of floating accordion notes, chiming metallophone sounds, and oscillating synths harmonises seamlessly with her ethereal dreamscape – something both deeply nostalgic and hauntingly transient, mirroring Asmar’s exploration of fleeting yet profound emotional states." – Aydin Khalili, The Quietus
"Stuttering Music centres on Asmar’s accordion laments – and metallophone – processed into cathedrals of reverb. Aching music for hard times." – Peter Hollo, Utility Fog broadcast broadcast (FBi Radio)
"The toy instruments and edited field recordings of her earliest work have gradually given way as her grandmother’s accordion has increasingly taken center stage, as it does on Stuttering Music, its drones drifting and mutating, processed and thickened with electroacoustic effects. At times reminiscent of Tim Hecker’s tectonic drones or Keith Fullerton Whitman’s ethereal signal processing, the most obvious referent may be the way Pauline Oliveros treated her own accordion sounds, though Asmar’s dilation of time functions more through streaked harmonic overtones rather than accumulated delays." – Joseph Sannicandro, A Closer Listen
“A captivating collection of slowly unfurling melodic drones and allusive sound design, Stuttering Music’s beauty lies as much in its tentative and nuanced melodic character as it does in the mysterious quality of the harmonics, effects processing, and instrumentation.” – Catherine Kennan, In Sheep’s Clothing: Favorite Releases of 2024
“Asmar’s compositions blur the lines between improvisation and structured melody, creating an ethereal atmosphere that lingers long after the final note fades. Standout tracks include the expansive “in fields of translucent pearls”, which unfolds over nine minutes of shimmering textures and plaintive accordion lines. The shorter “may” offer a more intimate experience, with delicate metallophone tones evoking a sense of nostalgia and loss.” – Imran Mirza, Twisted Soul
***
Since you left they’ve continued building the city.
There is a new theater,
Bigger than the old one.
In the library, they hang your two hats
And the coffee machine still brews the coffee (when there is electricity)
And people still drink it.
A couple had their first kiss by the Jesuit garden and
There is a parking lot now where the building collapsed a few years ago.
You’d think the city would be less than it was once you’ve left it but
It’s more of the same
And maybe even
Too much of it.
Eulogies for accordion, metallophone & electronics.
credits
released November 1, 2024
All music written, recorded and played by Yara Asmar in Beirut, Lebanon.
Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market, Montreal, September 2024.
Artwork by Imad Kaafarani. Design by Yara Asmar.
Thanks to Radio Alhara, for which most of this music was recorded; Marc Teare - for the support, always; to George and Mushroom and Fejleh and all my other friends, for being something good in the middle of everything crumbling; to my grandpa and Dr. D, who have both passed away this year. The world is less than it was because you are no longer in it.
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Even at 80 years old, Pharoah Sanders played his tenor sax with the conviction of a gospel preacher. Every second of this album is arrestingly beautiful. As far as I'm concerned, this is essential listening for anyone who considers themselves a fan of music. 3sidesinasquare
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Fall
Down
Down
Into
Onto
Cold
Shores
Forever you are
chained to that
Cold Rocky Shore
Winds
Carry
Marrow
Pleasure
Marrow Pain
There is no
cell to hold you
have the key
cold
windy
sea
magoski
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“Do you still dream in water?” she asks.
He nods—“only when it rains inside.”
Their words drift, slow like signal loss,, soft clicks between heartbeats.
A drone hums overhead,
its shadow stroking their faces.
“Are we free now?” she whispers.
He laughs, small, broken. “We’re just less afraid.”
They share one headphone,
listening to the city’s pulse—
loops of breath,
echoes of what could’ve been
“Hold me,” she says.
“I am,” he answers,
“in the static.” magoski
