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: Artist......: Leya
: Album.......: Flood Dream :
: Label.......: NNA Tapes .. .:.. .
Genre.......: Ambient :
Catnr.......: NNA122 .
' Source......: CD ,
; Rip.date....: 2020-07-22
Str.date....: 2020-03-06
Quality.....: 234kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :..
.:. Url.........: http://leya.bandcamp.com '
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1. Weight (ft. GABI) 3:54
2. Wave 4:13
3. INTP 3:49
4. ABBA 4:36
5. Flesh 2:52
6. Flow 4:46
7. Mariah 4:17
8. First Way 4:29
9. Mary 3:58
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\ / ________ Runtime 36:54
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,: Framed within a network of outlying artists whose experiments :,
: sketch out far-flung deviations from aboveground movements, the :
:' work of New York-based duo LEYA stands out as an anomaly that ':
,: exemplifies the idiosyncratic impulses of the avant fringe. :,
: Harpist/vocalist Marilu Donovan and violinist/vocalist Adam :
:' Markiewicz seem from a sidelong perspective to approximate the ':
,: languages of neo-classical performance and post-minimalist :,
: exploration in their austere, meticulously rendered :
:' compositions. In truth, the duoÆs own self-perception casts ':
,: their project closer to the axis of noise and punk than :,
: conventional refinement. :
:' ':
,: As formally educated composers acutely aware of the traditions :,
: and conventions into which their instruments fit, Donovan and :
:' Markiewicz exploit preconceptions and confound expectations by ':
,: pursuing the most transportive and emotional means of :,
: communication with their audience. Just as their peers warp :
:' systems of electronics or tropes from the pop and rock ':
,: traditions, LEYA channel the surface signifiers of orchestral :,
: music and 20th century classical composition into deeply :
:' personal works that encompass bursts of raw dissonance ':
,: alongside moments of spectral beauty. The duoÆs performances :,
: shift the spotlight from the authority figure looming over an :
:' ensemble of players to those planted in the corner of a dimly ':
,: lit basement populated with freaks who canÆt help but fall into :,
: silence when confronted with the duoÆs bewildering stimuli. :
:' ':
,: LEYAÆs album Flood Dream follows their acclaimed debut album The :,
: Fool (NNA, 2018), as well as Angel Lust, a collaboration with :
:' Eartheater released with PAN this December, and their ':
,: soundtrack to PornHub-exclusive short film I Love You directed :,
: by Brooke Candy. The Fool presented the project both in densely :
:' plotted duo pieces and joint efforts with New York luminaries ':
,: like Eartheater, PC Worship, and Sunk Heaven. Though guests from :,
: LEYAÆs wide social environment appear on Flood Dream, including :
:' vocalist/producer GABI, flautist/synthesist John Also Bennett ':
,: of Forma, and bassist Tristan Kasten-Krause, the album pares :,
: back the presence of external artists as full co-writing :
:' collaborators to highlight the raw core of the duoÆs practice. ':
,: Flood Dream plays out as a decadent feast of the senses struck :,
: through with the disturbed influence of intrusive thoughts. :
:' ':
,: The albumÆs pieces each follow their own sinuous narrative arc, :,
: building from empty expanses of detuned harp arpeggios and :
:' languid smears of violin into climaxes draped in Markiewicz's ':
,: impassioned vocal lines. LEYA generate tension with their darkly :,
: operatic sense of drama, conveyed in weeping melodies and the :
:' desolation of solitary notes against blank backdrops, as they ':
,: dole out fragments of resolution or momentary triumph before :,
: sinking back into uncertainty. Their arrangements bridge :
:' instances of baroque ornamentation and blocks of harmonic ':
,: density with stretches of fugue state-inducing confusion built :,
: over dreary standing tones and repeated dissonant intervals. :
:' ':
,: In an industry obsessed with precise classification, how do we :,
: make sense of the ambiguous shadow LEYA casts over the :
:' landscape? The duo reject the tenets of the new music ':
,: establishment and thrive within a scene of noise transgressors :,
: and electronic auteurs. In all of its indulgence and emotional :
:' upheaval, their music adapts as easily to the context of ':
,: arthouse pornography as to a late-night bill populated with no :,
: wave acts and performance artists, without ever coming off as a :
:' harsh juxtaposition. LEYAÆs music reveals that the boundaries ':
,: between these disciplines arenÆt boundaries at all ù that :,
: everything pours from the same well into different vessels that :
:' might be carried off in opposite directions, but always return ':
,: to a shared source. :,
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