IDRA & Hiroshi Ebina - Circle (Mystery circles)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

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What We Say

The recent wave of lockdown  creativity is still washing across time & space & surely signals that one of the less discussed benefits of universal income would be to unleash a new golden age of cultural riches for humanity to enjoy. Wishful thinking aside this most soothing of electroacoustic ambient companions created by IDRA & Hiroshi Ebina - "one person with two brains", for Mystery Circles is here to wash your worries away & usher you into a relaxing and restorative weekend.

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What The Release Notes Say

Long into the era of pandemic, our lives are getting increasingly repetitive. With so much less freedom to travel and meet people, we often have no choice but to spend a long time with the same scenery, thinking about the fact that, while millions of people are suffering from this endless waves of virus, we still don’t know when (or if) it’ll end. These persistent uncertainties sometimes shift our attention to something more predictable—perhaps good old films we enjoyed in the past, or unobtrusive music that keeps going on without requiring our active listening. For this reason, many of us go to YouTube and spend hours playing videos featuring all sorts of calming background music. 

IDRA and Hiroshi Ebina, sound artists from Italy and Japan, made their first collaborative album “Circle” exactly in this context. The entire album is arranged in such a way that one track seamlessly flows to the other, so that listeners can set it in loop and listen to it from track to track, even from side to side, without noticing a clear beginning or end. The album is made to accompany your time at home—it gives you something more than silence, yet the sound is soft enough to keep the atmosphere in your room as comfortable as it is now. 

A wide variety of synths, eurorack and acoustic instruments were used to create this album. Since there was no way for the two artists to get together in the same room, IDRA and Hiroshi spent nearly a year exchanging Ableton projects back and forth to slowly build up the album. They were both committed to keep the instrumentation minimum and make it sound as if the whole album was created by one person - with two brains.

CREDITS
​All music by IDRA & Hiroshi Ebina 
Art + design by Wilmer Murillo (@almanacsmusic) 

MC054 
mysterycircles.com

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