Archeophony

Archeophony takes us on a journey through time and space where traditional instruments and voices meet experimental electronic sounds in the most unique way. Raed Yassin has created the soundtrack to a psychedelic science-fiction movie that will unravel in your brain like a time travel machine from the future looking into the past.
In a similar vein to an archeologist, Raed Yassin’s new album Archeophony takes us on a journey through sounds and voices excavated from collected sonic archives from the past, rearranged and reproduced through electronics, distortion, sampling and assembly. Drum machines, synthesizers and electronic sounds merge with solo traditional voices and instruments recorded in different parts of the world, coming together to create a contrarian yet magical sound unlike any other. Based on so-called ‘ethnic’ music recordings conducted between the 1950s and 80s by Western ethnomusicologists in true colonial fashion, the album attempts to achieve an archeology of sound that reflects both the course history and its continuous distortion by the powers that be.
The result is a dizzying living archive of sonic history as well as the presentation of a unique experimental orchestration... more
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released November 27, 2020
Raed Yassin: Turntables, Electronics, Synthesizers, Zither, Double Bass
Composed by Raed Yassin
Recorded by Raed Yassin at Morphine Studio, Berlin, Germany
Mixed by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at Hotel2Tango Studio, Montreal, Canada . Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Studio, Montreal, Canada
Inside photo by Tony Elieh
Designed by Hussein Nassereddine
Calligraphy by Jaafar Hijazi
This album was published with the support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture- AFAC
© 2021 Raed Yassin ℗ 2021 Akuphone