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Impaired Singularity

by Barış Ergün

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We, Conscious, Where 03:27
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Hands Burying Eyes 07:11
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Depths Yet Deepening 05:18
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Banal Density 01:32
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Double Bind Fuck 10:56
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Pale Mirror, 310520 03:18
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Face Remains 04:36

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Barış Ergün, after making his entrance into experimental electronic music scene with his debut album ‘Modern Paralysis’ (2018), releases his 2nd studio album named ‘Impaired Singularity’ via Shalgam Records. Depicting a way of transforming from entropy into negentropy, the album consists of 7 tracks that attract attention with their holistic concept, dark and bold sound textures.Barış, who is the producer of the album himself, collaborates with James Ginzburg for mastering process, whom we know as the founder of Subtext Records and Emptyset.

The thoughts of Barış about his album are as follows: Impaired Singularity is not just an effort for creating melodies or soundscapes but a result of the chaos and the elimination that I’ve tried to reveal by digging into the ways and effects of thinking upon life and living itself as an individual. I was in Istanbul, Kadıköy when I first started spreading seeds of the album. I thought there happening was a sound universe that was much more inclusive and capable of touching various emotional states at different extremes. But later, I felt congestion and corruption of quarantine conditions of Istanbul and I did not want to drown myself under it anymore. Thereafter I temporarily moved to the Black Sea, to a village house and continued to record the album in a completely different life practice. Just at that moment, I realized how the past, the space occupied by that music in the past and the feelings triggered by it, were unconceivably and luridly variable. So I started to denigrate it, to feel estranged and alienated.

Then I came across a paragraph of Jung:

‘‘My life are the works that I can produce. Both mean the same thing. Since my works express my inner development, they can be considered as certain stopping points of my life path… Everything I wrote was the result of an inner necessity, a compulsion whose resources are also destined to me. What I wrote was something that attacked me from within… I let the spirit that moved me speak.’’

I really don’t know where it evolves tomorrow, but now I am sure that when I listen, it reminds me of myself in a certain past, and surprisingly, the future.

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released April 9, 2021

Written in 2019 in İstanbul, Turkey
Recorded in 2020 in İstanbul and Trabzon, Turkey
Engineered by Barış Ergün
Written for computer, synthesizer, vocal, trumpet, percussion and guitar amp
Mastered by James Ginzburg – Multiverse
Cover art & design by Ozan Tezvaran
Thanks to Oruç, Lawrence, James, Tarık, Ben

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Barış Ergün İstanbul, Turkey

Barış Ergün (1994) is an Istanbul-based musician, composer, record producer and sound engineer/designer. He is influenced by a wide range of music from hardcore to electro acoustics. His style is known as enduring, dark, intense noisy soundscapes composed in an environment built with "Earth Tones" which attract attention with their holistic concept, dark and bold sound textures. ... more

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