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​Mostly we put our daily recommendations here for the blog readers among you, although occasionally we go longform.
Reading about music is a bit like looking at pictures of food - not nearly half as much fun as getting involved, so we scribble a brief intro to hopefully whet your appetite but you're better off just hitting play. Not very "slow" I know but there's a lot of music to check these days & hopefully you'll find the recommendations a handy filter.
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4/12/2022 0 Comments

Antonina Car - Immersed Sensibilities (Time Released Sound)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like


What We Say

Add some neoclassical elegance to your Sunday recreational activity of choice with the frankly stunning debut LP from Antonina Car for Time Released Sound. Leading with the violin she sets off through a series of gently experimental, unfailingly engaging arrangements that reveal her multi-instrumental prowess, a perfectly balanced compositional restlessness, bookish attention to sonic detail and if that wasn't enough a rare vocal quality and dexterity.

What The Release Notes Say

“Phenomenons and events occurring in nature are the ultimate source of metaphors for every human condition. Nature perfectly shows us its strength and vulnerability, poetically flawless in its beauty and ferocity. Immersed Sensibilities is an attempt to transcribe feelings, stories, and events into a synthetic, self-contained sonic universe. It's a reflection of the
intensity with which humans often imagine their emotional presence matters.” - Antonina Car

Immersed Sensibilities is Antonina Car's debut LP album. Working on the album, the artist spent half a year in seclusion, in her home studio, composing and recording practically every day. That way, she could focus on ideas and experiment with all available resources. At first, the album was intended to be instrumental. During the composition process, the artist arranged subsequent layers of sound by humming, however, she began to perceive the voice as another instrument. Antonina used the violin, baritone violin, cello, keyboards, and synthesizers, recording all these instruments herself. The last track includes a flute and a clarinet played by a composer from Malaysia, Zurfahani Batrisya.

In the sounds, song titles, and original lyrics, the artist repeatedly refers to the idea of fluidity and ambivalence as a form of understanding and accepting transitional states in life. According to her, fervency is an emotional state that reflects the transfigurative character of nature. Antonina's works introduce the listener to a specific sonic "biosphere" in which we hear synthetic "beings", invented, and pictured by the imagination. The voice fragments are a reference to the listener's consciousness because the words are the only recognizable element - reminiscent of human reality.

The sounds in the tracks are electronically processed. Fragments that resemble field recordings (wind, thunder, rustling) are designed entirely digitally. The last piece on the album is a form of a manifesto. This is the only song in which the artist does not play string instruments. Instead, she focuses on the narrative, and this time a real field recording appears in the song - subtle footsteps on the forest ground. The song correlates with the artist's journey and it’s a form of a letter written to oneself. It combines a disorderly and uncertain beginning with a resolved yet subdued ending.


CREDITS
All music composed, played, recorded, and mixed by Antonina Car
Vocals and voice parts in tracks 2, 6, 8, 10, and 11 edited by Karol Wiśniewski
Instruments appearing in tracks consist of violin, baritone violin, cello, synthesizers, and keys
Track 11 “Limen” features flute and clarinet played by Zurfahani Batrisya
Album mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k
Artwork and package design by Colin Herrick
Time Released Sound 2022

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