Yara Asmar
home recordings 2018 - 2021 / synth waltzes & accordion laments (remastered) (LP)
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Home Recordings (2018-2021)
“Who is Yara Asmar and how does she make music so strangely beautiful? The 25-year-old instrumentalist-puppeteer lives in Beirut with her cat, Mushroom, and presumably that’s the feline’s shadow next to the artist’s on the album’s back cover. The warm light of that photograph and the quiet beach scene of an abandoned lifeguard’s station and an empty net tells you all you need to know. Home Recordings 2018-2021 is an assured debut album that builds an eerie tension out of dreamlike layers of isolation” - Spectrum Culture
"Tiny worlds expand and contract in the palm of Yara Asmar’s hand. These recordings are remarkable in their ability to command attention in the gentlest terms. There are stories to find on this album and new worlds to discover." - Foxy Digitalis
Synth Waltzes & Accordion Laments
“Melancholic drifts sound through the overcast skies of synth waltzes and accordion laments, infusing ageless melodies with a sense of falling backward through time. History is stitched through gilded aural silhouettes and elegiac drones. Asmar’s music is visceral. While electronics beckon beyond the sunrise stretched through a metallic shimmer, synth waltzes and accordion laments sticks with us while we remain lost in the hazy doldrums, always crawling forward tethered to our past lives. Highest recommendation.” - The Capsule Garden
“ …these tracks are a cushion against reality. Asmar creates music that unfurls in evanescent bliss, an invitation to a safe space both isolated and welcoming.” - The Quietus
“…a set that transmutes the instrument’s droning tones into a sweep of introspective, breath-catching moments of beauty“ - Pitchfork, 30 Best Jazz & Experimental Albums of 2024
Release notes
Originally released on cassette October 2023. Track A2: "recordings from churches around Lebanon" Track B3: "the recording is a message that one of my old literature professors left me where he was talking about how scared he was to be buried in Lebanon"
| A1 | It's Always October On Sunday | 10:12 | |
| A2 | Sleeping In Church - Tape 1 On A Warm Day I Turned To Tell You Something But There Was Nothing There | 7:31 | |
| A3 | Fish Can't Tie Their Shoelaces, Silly | 3:28 | |
| B1 | We Put Her In A Box And Never Spoke Of It Again | 7:22 | |
| B2 | There Is A Science To Days Like These (But I Am A Slow Learner) | 7:20 | |
| B3 | 4 Is An Okay Number | 6:14 | |
| B4 | Thanks For Coming | 1:14 | |
| C1 | To Die In The Country | 2:05 | |
| C2 | Objects Lost In Drawers (Found Again At The Most Inconvenient Times) | 3:10 | |
| C3 | From Gardens In The City We Keep Alive | 4:57 | |
| C4 | Everything Is Wrapped In Cling Film | 3:36 | |
| C5 | Are These Your Hands, Would You Like Them Back? | 5:15 | |
| C6 | It Is 5pm And Nothing Bad Has Happened To Us (Yet) | 2:15 | |
| D1 | Three Clementines On The Counter Of A Blue-tiled Sun-soaked Kitchen | 8:21 | |
| D2 | I Liked It Better When We Lived On See-saw Hill | 2:37 | |
| D3 | Jumana | 5:42 | |
| D4 | Come Back Later | 3:54 |
- Yara Asmar
- Accordion, Glockenspiel, Metallophone, Toy Piano, Toy [Toys], Musical Box [Music box], Kalimba, Synth, Piano, Written-By, Recorded By, Performer [Played by], Photography By
- Marc Teare
- Mastered By
