[dream-pop, electronic] (2017) Hirola - Hirola [FLAC,Tracks] {100.XY} torrent

(2017) Hirola - Hirola

Review:
Electronica duo Hirola released their debut mini-album through new music group Phantom Limb, headed by FatCat alumnus James Vella and former Royal Albert Hall exec Mark Pearse. The word ‘hirola’ refers to a rare type of antelope, native to Kenya and Somalia and critically endangered.
Hirola comprises Bristol-based producers LTO (formerly of acclaimed electronic outfit Old Apparatus) and edapollo. Together the duo create a pop music that twists the form into a new. Exciting, emotional and abstract.
Though founded in LTO’s piano playing (he is a piano teacher in his civilian life), edapollo’s vocals and the pair’s shared production alchemy, Hirola is more than just a skill-trade, but a mutual elevation and inspiration, a new concoction very different to its base materials. “It’s taken a couple years of trial and error to develop a sound that’s equal parts LTO and edapollo,” Hirola write.

The mini-album was created over a couple of years of honing and sharpening, culled from an ongoing body of work, continuously constructed, as a production collaboration. Eventually sending to Phantom Limb through an existing friendship, the record serves as a bird’s eye view over the span of Hirola’s production and songwriting artistry.

The record was mastered by Taylor Deupree of 12k Mastering (Loscil, Hauschka, Ryuichi Sakamoto etc.) and features original artwork created by Hirola.


Tracklist:
01 - So Long.flac
02 - Fields.flac
03 - Hollow.flac
04 - Lonesome.flac
05 - Meliae.flac
06 - No Return.flac

Summary:
Country: UK
Genre: dream-pop, electronic
Media Report:
Source                           : CD
Format                           : FLAC
Format/Info                      : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : ~754-863 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth                        : 16 bits