Yara Asmar

Yara Asmar

Multi-instrumentalist Yara Asmar is set to mesmerise listeners in the flesh. Her whimsical and haunting pieces showcase intimate glances into the world of the musician - also a video artist, puppeteer and crafter of her own instruments and ethereal scenarios. Vulnerable, intimate and moving, a lot of Asmar’s music was home recorded in Beirut, using cassettes and a phone. Raw field recording and melodic tapes get disturbed by metallic percussive sounds and processed through synths, reverbs and delays. These elements wrap classical music components and accordion drones. The atmosphere of melancholy that pervades her music, Asmar laments, should be familiar to anyone living in the 21st century.

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