K Á R Y Y N - THE QUANTA SERIES - CD

Catalogue Number: CDSTUMM437
Release Date: 29th March 2019

Multi-disciplinary artist, composer and vocalist K Á R Y Y N shares details of her forth-coming debut album 'THE QUANTA SERIES'. The album will be available from March 29th on Mute.

Written and recorded over a seven year period, 'THE QUANTA SERIES' tracks K Á R Y Y N’s movements across continents on a voyage of self-examination. Beginning in 2011 following the death of two relatives in Aleppo, K Á R Y Y N left her native LA for Cherry Valley, upstate New York to process her grief in seclusion. During the 18 months she lived in Cherry Valley, K Á R Y Y N wrote two songs for 'THE QUANTA SERIES'. The first was a visceral, emotional piece rec-orded in one take called 'TODAY I READ YOUR LIFE STORY 11:11'. The second, a musing on impermanence and understanding the impact of our choices called 'SEGMENT & THE LINE'. Over the years that followed, K Á R Y Y N spent time living in Berlin where she wrote 'PURGA-TORY', a song inspired by a memory from her childhood spent in the Forty Mountains of Idlib province in Syria. As she travelled, she found inspiration everywhere, leaning into her own famil-ial legacy, feelings of grief and love and observations on human interaction. A deep connection to her lineage is a concurrent theme in K Á R Y Y N’s work, with an interpretation of traditional Armenian folk song 'AMBETS GORAV' present on the album plus a beautiful choral patchwork called 'MIRROR ME' providing an introspective break in the album - a track about "facing your-self, the good, the bad; searching for the parts in us that have been lost."

1. EVER
2. YAJNA
3. PURGATORY
4. BINARY
5. AMBETS GORAV
6. Un-c2-See
7. MIRROR ME
8. CYTOKINESIS
9. ALEPPO
10. TODAY I READ YOUR LIFE STORY 11 11
11. SEGMENT & THE LINE