“Music that sounds both supernatural and ancient.” – PITCHFORK
“A dizzying mesh of digital and human signal.” – FADER
“K Á R Y Y N doesn’t write music, she builds it with holograms.” – WIRED
“[She] weaves fluttering beats and sampled vocals into stark, billowing soundscapes.” - GUARDIAN
Multidisciplinary artist, composer and vocalist
K Á R Y Y N today shares details of her forthcoming debut album
THE QUANTA SERIES. The album will be available
March 29 via Mute. Alongside today’s announcement, K Á R Y Y N shares a new edit of her single “EVER.” Listen to "EVER" and pre-order
THE QUANTA SERIES here.
Written and recorded over a seven year period,
THE QUANTA SERIES tracks K Á R Y Y N’s movements across continents on a voyage of self-examination. Beginning in 2011 following the death of two relatives in Aleppo, Syria, K Á R Y Y N left her native Los Angeles for Cherry Valley in upstate New York to process her grief in seclusion. During the 18 months she lived in Cherry Valley, K Á R Y Y N wrote two songs for
THE QUANTA SERIES. The first was a visceral, emotional piece recorded in one take called “TODAY I READ YOUR LIFE STORY 11:11.” The second was a musing on impermanence and understanding the impact of our choices called “SEGMENT & THE LINE.” Over the years that followed, K Á R Y Y N spent time living in Berlin where she wrote “PURGATORY,” a song inspired by a memory from her childhood spent in the Forty Mountains of Idlib province in Syria. As she travelled, she found inspiration everywhere, leaning into her own familial legacy, feelings of grief and love and observations on human interaction. A deep connection to her lineage is a recurrent theme in K Á R Y Y N’s work, with an interpretation of traditional Armenian folk song “AMBETS GORAV” present on the album as well as a beautiful choral patchwork called “MIRROR ME” that provides an introspective break in the album – a track about “facing yourself, the good, the bad; searching for the parts in us that have been lost.”
After a steady drip feed of songs released to widespread acclaim, including the first two singles released under her artist moniker in 2017 – “ALEPPO” and “BINARY” –
THE QUANTA SERIES will soon be available digitally and physically via Mute. The album’s full tracklist is below. In addition to the album,
K Á R Y Y N today announces her upcoming tour with Mute labelmate Apparat. Beginning in Munich, the tour covers seven cities including a performance at London’s Barbican on April 27.
Full details below.
THE QUANTA SERIES Tracklist
1. EVER
2. YAJNA
3. PURGATORY
4. BINARY
5. AMBETS GORAV
6. Un-c2-See
7. MIRROR ME
8. CYTOKINESIS
9. ALEPPO
10. TODAY I READ YOUR LIFE STORY 11:11
11. SEGMENT & THE LINE
K Á R Y Y N 2019 Tour
April 16 – Munich, Germany – Alte Kongresshalle *
April 17 – Paris, France – La Gaite Lyrique *
April 18 – Hamburg, Germany – Kampnagel *
April 20 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Muziekgebouw *
April 26 – Brighton, England – Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts *
April 27 – London, England – The Barbican *
April 28 – Brussels, Belgium – AB *
* With Apparat
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