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Cenizas
Electronic · 2020 · 13 tracks · 53m

Cenizas

A skeletal, spiritual descent into silence. Minimalist electronics and whispered chants recorded in isolation, sounding like ash settling in an empty room.

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It sounds like a ghost trying to remember how to sing in an empty cathedral.

A stark, monastic meditation on isolation that finds beauty in the debris of silence.

Cenizas · vs · Nicolas Jaar
Self Examination+2.9σ

The writing leans far further into self examination than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks · 53m
01
Vanish
3:11
02
Menysid
3:58
03
Cenizas
4:39
04
Agosto
2:47
05
Gocce
3:56
06
Mud
7:13
07
Vacíar
2:17
08
Sunder
3:05
09
Hello, Chain
5:26
10
Rubble
3:01
11
Garden
5:25
12
Xerox
3:19
13
Faith Made of Silk
5:26
Moments Worth Waiting For
The transition into the title track where the silence becomes so heavy it feels like a physical presence.
The ghostly, multi-tracked vocal harmonies on 'Sunder' that sound like a choir in an abandoned chapel.
The way 'Mud' slowly assembles itself from rhythmic clicks and deep, resonant bass pulses over seven minutes.
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