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Cien A​ñ​os de Soledad EP

by Ejder Kazar

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Currently based in Istanbul, the live act and music producer Ejder Kazar chooses music as the best way to interpret life. Although Armenian, he has been exploiting his life to the utmost on the majestic city that spans Europe and Asia. In his childhood, Ejder started being passionate by break dance, part of the hip hop culture created by African Americans and Latinos in the 1970s in New York, and as being born in a different 'geography' he always felt a vertiginous crush on South America. Influenced by Middle Eastern societies and inspired by history and nature, Ejder Kazar performs his music in a society that lives in a comparative synthesis between the new and the old, thus, he blends the mysterious spirit of the Middle East with the digital world.

Nowadays, everything is a reference, including the literature that lends its ideas to other arts. Thus, using as initial inspiration the book 'Cien Anons de Soledad' (One Hundred Years of Solitude) by acclaimed Colombian political activist writer Gabriel Garcia Marquéz, Ejder gently interweaves the fantastic and painful history of the Buendías, generation after generation, with the weight of the past, the dream's future and imaginative flights of fantasy in order to create his debut EP, which takes the book's title. However, the producer goes under his own course without pretense, and honestly the book's inspiration is just one of the many directives taken by Ejder when crafting the three tracks.

As in the book, things never stop happening and time abruptly ceases only after the final line, final second in this case. Flashbacks of matters past and long leaps towards future events are represented in the EP by voices that lead into the inseparability of past, present, and future. Besides, seeking to give wider exposure to the raw, 'urbancholy', grassroots sound of Ejder's influences, the EP is also delineating contrasting sections and developing peaks and valleys, always surrounded by ghostly collages, organ tones swimming in and out through a stereo chillout exotica, topped with Ejder’s reflective, anachronistic filter into something that feels almost like storytelling.

In the opening track 'Hotel Ritmo', echoing and overlapping voices open up a charged development, having as a conductor the lack of modesty to explore the low frequencies cyclical. In turn, the second track 'Días Después del Amanecer' contrasts and adds a more progressive atmosphere, while still showing timid and absorbed, using mainly noisy interludes to sew between the most loaded stretches of elements. The similar dynamic echoes across the last track 'Instrumento del Cielo', however more optimistic and made up with an intensity marked by its on-point simplicity.

So, trying to use his creations to make parallels with our own existence, the singular and enigmatic Ejder Kazar approaches investigations into mysterious matters. From solitude as psychological theme, as much as geographical; a tendency to withdraw into a place where the fantastical and the everyday coexist and mingle without clear lines of division. Passionate without being melodramatic, uncomplicated yet filled with warmth and honesty.

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released September 16, 2020

Music\ All tracks produced by Ejder Kazar
fb.com/0ejderkazar
soundcloud.com/ejderkazar

Artwork\ Mrs. Räbbit

Master\ Murillo Faleiros
soundcloud.com/mandruvamusic
murillofaleiros@hotmail.com

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