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Home Recordings 2018 - 2021

by Yara Asmar

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about

Yara Asmar is a 25 year old multi-instrumentalist, video artist and puppeteer currently living in Beirut with her cat, Mushroom.
Hive Mind are thrilled to be working with her and to 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 recognisable 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.

“…Tiny worlds expand and contract in the palm of Yara Asmar’s hand. These recordings are remarkable in their ability to command attention in the gentlest terms. There are stories to find on this album and new worlds to discover.”
Brad Rose, FOXY DIGITALIS

“…How remarkable: through a series of highly abstract musical compositions, Asmar has communicated volumes about the world we live in...the most beautifully haunting music of the year.”
Pat Padua, SPECTRUM CULTURE

“…an uncommonly rich blend of experimentation, field recordings, and ambient sensibilities across seven tracks...Home Recordings 2018–2021 is a remarkable debut.”
Joseph Neff, THE VINYL DISTRICT

“…a truly dreamy, translucent and amorphous album of delicate classicism, explorative percussion and ambient; an ebb and flow of reverberations and traces of moods, thoughts that literally floats above the clouds and out beyond the Lebanese borders“
Dominic Valvona, MONOLITH COCKTAIL

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released September 16, 2022

All music composed, performed, recorded and produced by Yara Asmar at her home in Beirut
Mastered by Marc Teare
Photography: Yara Asmar
Design: Marc Teare

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Yara Asmar Beirut, Lebanon

Yara Asmar is a musician and puppeteer currently living in Beirut with her two cats, Mushroom and Fejlé.

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