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. . 34345 => C13H16ClNO + 34345 + C13H16ClNO Niko Tzoukmanis
title > Hope Is The Sister Of Despair
year > 2020
genre > Electronic
mood > ambient x downtempo
label > Libreville Records
catno > LVLP2006
predate > 2026-09-07
tracks > 11
size > 730.52 mb
url > https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/id/j4jeg3cxucp6a
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01. Blue Valentine 4:51
02. Raindrops 6:58
03. Disorder 6:53
04. Green Belt 6:12
05. Floating Free 7:30
06. Free Hugs 6:13
07. Twinkle 6:26
08. Relief 7:50
09. Eastern Mantra 5:31
10. 24 Hours 9:46
11. The End 8:07
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"Androids may not yet dream of electric sheep, but maybe computers do
sing sad songs. "
All Music made on computers is just data, just a stream of zeros and
ones. In other words, it's all binary, a base-2 number system invented
by Gottfried Leibniz. However complex the information, it's expressed
only in presences and absences - like switches set either on or off or
decisions made or not. Every event in the music, however tiny, is
therefore surrounded by a field of absence, of paths not taken and
discarded possibilities. What's there might mourn for what's not.
Certain kinds of electronic music are characterised by a kind of
'happy/sad' feeling. Where does this mixed emotion come from? It could
be something about the aesthetics that inform the music - altered
states and a nostalgia for a lost idea of the future. Or, it could be
the ebb tide of serotonin washing back in certain clubs and certain
people. One can wonder, though, if it's also to do with the 'one'
missing the 'zero'-the sadness inherent in the presence of absence-
that is there, and not, from the very moment of the music's creation.
In 2013, Tzoukmanis released 'Hope Is The Sister Of Despair', issued
here for the first time on vinyl with 4 previously unreleased tracks.
The album was made following the end of a relationship and the
happy/sad feeling is everywhere in this music. Sequences twinkle and
nag, soft pads pour balm on tired ears and when drums do appear they
provide an intimate framework rather than a call to the dance floor.
The album taps into a rich vein of sequencer romanticism, from
Tangerine Dream-obsessed- 'Berlin School' daydreamers to the whole
nebula of music inspired by Warp's Artificial Intelligence series. It
also looks forward, prefiguring the return today, in troubled times,
to the comforting inner space of '90s-worshipping ambient techno.
The German word 'weltschmerz', roughly translating as 'world sadness',
fits this music well. The melancholy it inspires feels collective,
almost heartening. Sorrow might be said to infuse the technology's
basic building blocks - Leibniz's binary 'one' bereft of its 'zero',
its presence twinned with absence. But there is hope, too, in the
network of actions and decisions that have been fashioned here into
melody and rhythm.
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