Multi-disciplinary artist Yara Asmar announces her new album everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much, anticipated by the song wooden giants and mechanical birds, which was made in collaboration with bassist and multi-instrumentalist John Murchison and saxophonist, nay player, composer and improviser Gideon Forbes.
The new album presents 11 pieces recorded over the past year between the small town of Alfred in upstate New York and Beirut. These sometimes fragile and tentative sound sketches reflect the times as Yara steps out, as if onto ice, into a new life on a new continent.
Yara Asmar works with unfamiliar instruments, new materials and new sounds to build on her intimate style; homemade mechanical music boxes and a personal archive of family recordings form the backbone of its delicate textures. She explores the peculiar resonance of the metallophone and her collection of deconstructed toy pianos, and guides her music into ever more surreal territories. The result is a work that is dreamlike, fragmentary and timeless.
Yara Asmar performs at Le Guess Who? 2025 on Thursday 6 November, and as part of Sounds of Places Cremisan Valley on Friday 7 November. Also performing at the festival are a.o. Merope with Shahzad Ismaily, Voice Actor, Ziúr & Sandi - Home - Live A/V, and many more.
