Projector, by Fien

Projector

by Fien

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1.	Introïtus 01:09	buy track
2.	X As Y 02:32	buy track
3.	Y As 5 03:05	buy track
4.	Single Victim 02:48	buy track
5.	Real Dialectic 00:32	buy track
6.	As She Is Syung 04:42	buy track
7.	WT 00:22	buy track
8.	208 02:12	buy track
9.	Exterior Patterns 04:18	buy track
10.	Fall Like Lightning 00:33	buy track
11.	0509 c0622 07183.3 01:23	buy track
12.	23 00:29	buy track
13.	(You Have) A Sad Name 02:37	buy track
14.	I Saw The Day Appear 03:19	buy track

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sunless welcomes newcomer Fien aka Leroy Chaar with Projector, a delicately rendered electronic suite of light and shade that invokes, and invites, conversation. The foundation of Chaar’s debut release is synthesis, achieved through hardware such as the Eurorack modular synth and Yamaha DX7, as well as software, to sustain a sound rooted in the idea of “transmitting information and emotion from object to subject,” the metaphysical projection from which the mini-album derives its title.

Chaar, however, summons both philosophy and folk traditions as a guide through this record of transcendent and transitory reverberations. The 1970s output of UK folk revival label, Trailer Records, informs its simple, honest melodies while harpsichord music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries serves as a direct instrumental inspiration. Perhaps most important is the idea of the travelling mediaeval minstrel — telling, retelling, and transforming stories. The abstract electronics of Projector can be thought of as a microcosm of this oral process; refrains surface and resurface, distinct then diffuse, shifting and shimmering before the listener.

Projector opens with the twinkling minimalist pulses of Introïtus. From there, X as Y establishes the album’s themes with synthesised harp that twangs in the foreground, a drum machine which blips in the back, the track as a whole disintegrating in an electroacoustic rumble before reappearing moments later — clearer than ever. Next is the bobbing, Lorenzo Senni-esque trance of Y as 5 which gives way to the computerised strings of Single Victim whose elegance and poise recalls Japanese environmental music. Despite the restrained instrumental palette, surprises abound: the acid squelch of Real Dialectic, digital concrète of Exterior Patterns and penultimate track (You Have) A Sad Name which contains a moment of nearly pastoral beauty — soaring woodwind set against throbbing bass and chiming mallets.

Lilting and lyrical, Chaar points to the “musical” prose of Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard as an influence on the mini-album’s cadence. Projector also has the flow of friends exchanging thoughts to one another, the fourteen electronic instrumentals oozing expression with every hiss, crackle, and smudged harmony. The suite ends with I Saw The Day Appear, crescendoing not with a moment of sunny euphoria but the bending, uncanny notes of synthesised horn. It’s another projection — gloriously imperfect; machine music prickling with decidedly human emotion.

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released November 25, 2022

℗ + © sunless 2022
All tracks written and produced by Leroy Chaar
Mastering by Adam Badí Donoval
Graphic Design by Alex Walker
Words by Lewis Gordon

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