Faten Kanaan - Diary of a Candle (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Minimal and nuanced, Diary of a Candle is a consoling, melodic suite from acclaimed experimental composer, musician, and producer Faten Kanaan. On this album Faten uses counterpoint as a narrative tool to create music that is mysterious, smudgy, and deeply melodic. From the repetitive structures of modern minimalism and early music/baroque influences - to more languid textural ebbs and tides, there's a warmth in her use of synthesizers that gives her work a curiously timeless feel. Composing intuitively, her music creates its own world - one that isn't easily categorised.

Diary of a Candle is punctuated with tender woodwinds and richly-layered strings, touched by the hazy atmospheres of 1970s/1980s films. Its understated heart-on sleeve romanticism follows the rhythm of nature: it bends in the breeze, drifts through the air, and settles on the ground. The ambiance is not an escapism, but the re-focusing of a lens through which humans are no longer the protagonists. Instead, a landscape's intimate details become the central figures.

With the sparseness of Hiroshi Yoshimura's 1982 album 'Music for Nine Post Cards' as a starting-point influence, Faten's music exudes a wistful yet hopeful sentiment, honouring moments of beauty in the world around us. Some of the album titles are inspired by East-Asian rites and folkloric superstitions, often related to nature.

Tracklist:
1. Afternoon (02:08)
2. Celadon (02:01)
3. Tsukumogami (Sensu) (01:46)
4. Book of Changes (03:15)
5. Supercore (02:15)
6. Acorns (02:27)
7. Soseol (02:53)
8. Alcoyana-Capri (03:11)
9. Scene for a Wooden Room (01:33)
10. Sondol Baram (02:27)
11. Barjees (01:35)
12. Naming the Cloud (Version 2) (02:50)


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