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Taking The Veil

by hior chronik

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“Shadows surrounding, this lucid veil that will not conceal.”

‘Taking the Veil’ is the debut solo album on KITCHEN-lABEL by Berlin-based musician Hior Chronik. Originally from Athens, the new album is a follow-up to his previous work on the label as the duo Pill-Oh in ‘Vanishing Mirror’. The established foundation are intact on ‘Taking the Veil’: the bitterly romantic strings and gentle electronics whisper melting over plaintive piano scores. Hior Chronik has a penchant of producing subtly immense and cinematic compositions which are remarkably chilling in its beauty.

The latest release follows Hior Chronik’s distinctive compositional path with the pairing of a collaborator on each track. This time the instrumental colors are most intimate, honed to evocative perfection with each collaboration bringing its own nuances to a permeable set of motives. Through the contemplative moments, what give it life is the varied scoring which goes from solo piano to string orchestra, opening up a space that shimmers with stirring melancholy. Featuring classically aligned contemporaries such as Field Rotation (Denovali Records), Sophie Hutchings (Preservation), Luup (Experimedia) and Japanese composers Yasushi Yoshida (noble), Yoshinori Takezawa (Schole Records) among many others. The biggest change in this new album is the addition of vocals by Amber Ortolano and Fabiola Sanchez (Familiar Trees) on four songs. Figured centrally in the soundtrack as recurring lyrical voicing, the Amber Ortolano and Hior Chronik pairing also produced a rearranged version of ‘Twice’ originally written by Swedish electronic band Little Dragon.

‘Taking the Veil’ is presented in a 16-page art book format with stunning images by the aforementioned New York based photographer Amber Ortolano, with design and mastering by KITCHEN. LABEL founder Ricks Ang. The subjects in the visual narratives of ‘Taking the Veil’ are of young women imprisoned by their flow of thoughts and their dark imagination. The delicate beauty and ambiguous gestures of these feminine protagonists serve as powerful metaphors of the veil as the title of the album reflects – they reveal and conceal all at once, reviving emotions conjured by a sense of mystery. This atmosphere probes the consciousness of visions half-remembered and half-dreamed. ‘Taking the Veil’ is the best company for late hours and memory searching in a world of mist and shadows.

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released May 24, 2015

All compositions by Hior Chronik
Mastered by Ricks Ang

Photography by Amber Ortolano
Design by Ricks Ang

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