We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

being near

by ekin fil

/
  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    An edition somewhere south of 400 copies in print.

    Includes unlimited streaming of being near via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $18 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $8 USD  or more

     

1.
sel 03:36
2.
vapors 04:20
3.
being near 04:15
4.
5.
desired 04:08
6.
timesickness 03:56
7.
mankind 04:24
8.

about

had the titular contest in guy maddin's "the saddest music in the world" not been rigged from the onset, turkey could have delivered an impeccable contestant in ekin fil. for many years now, her spectral dream-pop deconstructions hold a thousand-yard stare of an unconsolable melancholy; and she's drawn the highly favorable comparisons to grouper and lovesliecrushing thanks to her understated yet beloved catalogue of releases on root strata, students of decay, no kings, and sacred phrases. helen scarsdale has long been a fan of ekin fil's work, and we are delighted to have her in our constellation of artists here at the agency.

born ekin üzeltüzenci and based in her native istanbul, she cites the shoegazing classics (cocteau twins, cranes, slowdive, etc.) as her earliest influence, seeking out worn issues of melody maker or nme from second hand shops and trading cassettes with friends and fellow enthusiasts. this proustian obsession with rainsoaked melodies from the british isles blossomed into a foundation for her own art. 'being near' stands as the pinnacle in her luminous career, with achingly beautiful and elegantly simple arrangements for guitar and electronics saturated in cavernous amounts of reverb, whose semi-mystical blur extends well into the vocal melodies. ekin fil's songs emote a timelessness of human desire and longing, albeit constrained to this plane of existence. for üzeltüzenci, her music is not an escape valve from the patriarchal hammer of the dominant culture in turkey, but a reflection through her own condition, in her own context, from her own body that may have actualized what helene cixous theorized as "écriture féminine" but through sound and not language.

credits

released June 24, 2016

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

helen scarsdale California

post-industrial research, surrealist collage, refined minimalism, caustic electro-acoustics, sublimated dream-pop, obfuscated field recordings, recombinant noise, existential vacancy, and then some.

no demos accepted. full demo policy explained here: helenscarsdale.com/about.htm
... more

contact / help

Contact helen scarsdale

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like being near, you may also like: