Haunting Beauty
The tracks on this affecting album are mysterious and often haunting, their past origins as reel/cassette tape recordings infused with the distortions of their distant times as well as the effects used in re-presenting them within new musical soundscapes.
Here is a slice of the background details presented on A Lily’s Bandcamp page:
From the 60’s until the modern era, it was common for Maltese families to receive reel tapes from relatives abroad. Maltese emigrés resettled in Australia, the UK, Canada etc. would record their news onto cassette - often in the form of għana, traditional Maltese song - and mail the tapes back home.
The musical backdrops are ambient and repetitive, loops of sound wrapped around long ago and relayed into the present. It is the voices that carry a sonic past with most impact, seemingly lyrical intonations now molded in preserving electronica. Most are carried on pulses of sound like heartbeats resurrected from beyond. Obtained from
Archival recordings provided by Magna Żmien Foundation
Dan
il-proġett huwa megħjun mill-Kunsill Malti għall-Arti
they are now their own archives of memorial music.
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