Blind Heaven by hior chronik
Seductive drone and post cinematic soundscapes between ambient, indie-neoclassical music. These are the best words to describe the vibes of the new album by the Greek/Berliner composer Hior Chronik, entitled βBlind Heavenβ out on November 8th via 7K!.
There is a dark and cinematic atmosphere that chases throughout the new album by the Greek composer and producer Hior Chronik, a natural sequel to "Out Of The Dust", released on 7K! in 2017. While retaining an ambient and modern-classic dimension, "Blind Heaven" goes in search of new territories to observe and interpret. Sound landscapes made of synthesizers, electronics, strings, woodwinds and above all magical touches of the piano, so minimal as they are brilliant in their being perfectly integrated into the sonic trajectories traced by the Athens-born artist who has lived in Berlin for several years.
Track after track "Blind Heaven" reveals itself by involving the listener in a particularly evocative and immersive multi-stage sound journey: Nocturne, crepuscular, foggy, the record moves in neighboring territories without delineating a precise and static form: the sound moves magmatic, it is discovered, it hides, it explodes, it shrinks and once again it frees itself to cross extremely natural and peaceful landscapes, as well as darker, industrial, apocalyptic, noisy and powerful worlds. Storm, then quiet again, but a stillness crossed by splinters and flashes clearly visible in the distance.
Created between the autumn and winter of 2019 in Berlin, mixed and mastered in Athens by John Valasis (already at the mix for the previous "Out Of The Dust"), "Blind Heaven" confirms Hior Chronik as one of the main names of the scene poised between the electronic-ambient world and that of modern classic minimalism.
Proof of this are the prestigious features of the album: from the Japanese Masayoshi Fujita (vibraphone on "Blanket") & Christian Grothe (trumpet on "Blanket"), to the Polish pianist Hania Rani, who for a long time accompanied Hior Chronik on tour and whom we see here on the piano in "Words Are Gone", the producer and sound engineer Francesco Donadello, to the modular synths in "One Eternity At The Time", up to the New York artist Amber Ortolano, voice in "Beneath".
Tracklist
| 1. | Imitation of Life | 4:43 |
| 2. | Beneath | 4:42 |
| 3. | Don't Mess with My Heart | 3:55 |
| 4. | Blanket | 4:21 |
| 5. | Words Are Gone | 2:33 |
| 6. | One Eternity at a Time | 3:33 |
| 7. | Through the Path | 4:32 |
| 8. | Smash and Grab | 4:53 |
| 9. | Intimacy of the Unknown | 6:56 |
| 10. | Elixir | 3:29 |
Credits
2019, 7K! A Division Of K7 Music GmbH
