Like A Gun, by Laila Sakini

Like A Gun

by Laila Sakini

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	1.	Like A Gun 07:10		buy track
	2.	Life Out Here Is Changing 05:17		buy track

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Following work with poet Lucy Van (Figures, Purely Physical 2017) and a string of highly alluring sound parcels via her Careful podcast series, the Melbourne-London based producer, DJ, curator, and performer presents two solo pieces of ambience and deftly arranged instrument-voice interplay.

A space is found within a mix of DIY instrumentation, science fiction rumination and the melancholic exotica of possible pasts. The eponymous opener, ‘Like a Gun’ pushes and pulls between a place of pure darkness and crystal-clear dreamlike vision: stoic guitar plucks, gentle organ and synth washes are set against a subtle abrasiveness and hum.

‘Life out Here is Changing’, formed by layers of treated guitar that take centre stage, offers refuge for Sakini’s whispers - delivering an indecipherable yet tonally sombre message. Evoking a place spacious yet secretive, it understatedly exposes a tale of fatalism, memory, and “that gross feeling when reality hits”.

Like a Gun is a compelling precursor and future companion to Sakini’s forthcoming debut LP, due for release on Total Stasis in early 2020.

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released January 9, 2020

Written, Performed, Produced and Mixed by Laila Sakini.
Mastered by Mikey Young.
Cover Art by Sophie Gemmill.
Layout by Moopie.

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Laila Sakini London, UK

Working with piano, voice, guitar, found sound, electronics and silence Laila creates dynamic and textured environments that provide the listener with space to develop their own meanings and responses.

“It’s like a dream where everything’s bright and gilded and beautiful but you keep remembering something is very, very wrong” - Low Company, 2020 ... more

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