It’s a beautiful morning here and the forecast is for a nice warm day. And it’s the weekend. Thankfully. Time to relax with a lovely chilled track from the returning Aonian.
Aonian (Alkis Livathinos) is from London but the heart of his music is somewhere much more sun drenched, Greece. It’s been a while but Hideout (Edit) is a second ‘chapter’ from his forthcoming debut album. The idea of the track is that, “each of us builds their own “hideout” in times of crises, a place of inner safety and familiarity.”
This is a really lovely track. From the outset it offers soothing but intricate sounds and a solid wood block type of percussion. The focus of the track ends up being a snaking piano line that subtly dominates the electronics which gently give way. But it has a non-traditional piano form. Aonian explains that, “The motif was written on the Oud, but I then recorded it on the piano where it took a completely different form, and I ended up adding organic percussive elements built from places and memories of my motherland.”
The track is all about security of memory. Of memories past. Of memories created in the present. But all with a sepia electronic glow. A special track for your special memory place.
