*150 copies limited edition* Farewell to the Night marks a distinctive entry in the discography of Ethan Syann, presented in late 2025 by the IIKKI label as part of its ongoing collaboration between sound and visual art. The album, unfolding over nearly thirty minutes, engages listeners in an understated narrative where the night serves as both setting and character. With artwork by Yorgos Yatromanolakis and mastering by James Plotkin, the project cultivates a tactile dialogue between aural and visual elements, each reinforcing the other’s meditative charge. The limited vinyl edition - only 200 numbered copies - speaks to its artisanal intent, subtending Syann’s patient, incremental sculpting of sound. Musically, the album charts a path through luminously sparse arrangements, relying on subtle melodic fragments and restrained, textural shifts that evoke environments rather than telling explicit stories. Tracks flow into one another as movements of a single composition, eschewing climaxes for gradual evolutions; space and silence play as vital a role as any instrument, inviting listeners to inhabit a realm where perception slows and detail magnifies. The sequence of pieces unfolds like stages of twilight: contemplative, opaque, yet occasionally sparkling with harmonic clarity. Field recordings and electronic interventions intermingle seamlessly, never imposing but coaxing the ear toward the liminal spaces between the heard and the felt.

At its core, Farewell to the Night is best approached as a sensorial meditation - one in which the boundary between composer, environment, and audience is rendered porous. Syann’s approach evokes the more reflective tendencies of contemporary ambient and electroacoustic artists but avoids sentimentality in favor of a nuanced, almost documentary realism. Through the album, the notion of “farewell” is redeployed as an invitation to pause and reckon with the textures, memories, and emotional traces that linger as night recedes, articulating a language of absence rather than grand emotion. This work stands as a finely wrought artifact in the realm of modern ambient and experimental sound, furthering the IIKKI label’s ongoing commitment to projects that merge sonic subtlety with curated visual aesthetics. For listeners attuned to the resonance of the minor and the understated grandeur of the everyday, Farewell to the Night offers an absorbing space for solitary encounter, nocturnal wonder, and the quiet dignity of transitions.