Hior Chronik - Taking the Veil - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

'Taking the Veil' is the debut solo album on Kitchen. tag by Berlin-based musician Hior Chronik. Originally from Athens, the new album is a follow-up to his previous work on the tag as the duo Pill-Oh in 'Vanishing Mirror'. The established foundation are intact on 'Taking the Veil' the bitterly romantic strings and gentle electronics whisper melting over plaintive piano scores. Hior Chronik has a penchant of producing subtly immense and cinematic compositions which are remarkably chilling in it's beauty.The latest follows Hior Chronik's distinctive compositional path with the pairing of a collaborator on each track. This time the instrumental colors are most intimate, honed to evocative perfection with each collaboration bringing it's own nuances to a permeable set of motives. Through the contemplative moments, what give it life is the varied scoring which goes from solo piano to string orchestra, opening up a space that shimmers with stirring melancholy. Featuring classically aligned contemporaries such as Field Rotation (Denovali Records), Sophie Hutchings (Preservation), Luup (Experimedia) and Japanese composers Yasushi Yoshida (noble), Yoshinori Takezawa (Schole Records) among many others. The biggest change in this new album is the addition of vocals by Amber Ortolano and Fabiola Sanchez (Familiar Trees) on four songs. Figured centrally in the soundtrack as recurring lyrical voicing, the Amber Ortolano and Hior Chronik pairing also produced a rearranged version of 'Twice' originally written by Swedish electronic band Little Dragon.'Taking the Veil' is presented in a 16-page art book , also featuring the New York based Amber Ortolano as a photographer. The subject in the visual narrative of 'Taking the Veil' is of young women imprisoned by their flow of thoughts and their dark imagination. The delicate beauty and ambiguous gestures of feminine protagonists ser