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Diary of a Candle

by Faten Kanaan

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1.
Afternoon 02:08
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2.
Celadon 02:01
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3.
Tsukumogami (Sensu) 01:46
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4.
Book of Changes 03:15
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5.
Supercore 02:15
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6.
Acorns 02:27
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7.
Soseol 02:53
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8.
Alcoyana-Capri 03:11
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9.
Scene for a Wooden Room 01:33
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10.
Sondol Baram 02:27
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11.
Barjees 01:35
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12.
Naming the Cloud (Version 2) 02:50
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*Please note shipping and release date is October 17th, 2025*

Minimal and nuanced, Diary of a Candle is a consoling, melodic suite from acclaimed experimental composer, musician, and producer Faten Kanaan. On this album Faten uses counterpoint as a narrative tool to create music that is mysterious, smudgy, and deeply melodic. From the repetitive structures of modern minimalism and early music/baroque influences - to more languid textural ebbs and tides, there's a warmth in her use of synthesizers that gives her work a curiously timeless feel. Composing intuitively, her music creates its own world - one that isn't easily categorised.

Diary of a Candle is punctuated with tender woodwinds and richly-layered strings, touched by the hazy atmospheres of 1970s/1980s films. Its understated heart-on sleeve romanticism follows the rhythm of nature: it bends in the breeze, drifts through the air, and settles on the ground. The ambiance is not an escapism, but the re-focusing of a lens through which humans are no longer the protagonists. Instead, a landscape's intimate details become the central figures.

With the sparseness of Hiroshi Yoshimura's 1982 album 'Music for Nine Post Cards' as a starting-point influence, Faten's music exudes a wistful yet hopeful sentiment, honouring moments of beauty in the world around us. Some of the album titles are inspired by East-Asian rites and folkloric superstitions, often related to nature.

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released October 17, 2025

All music written performed and mixed by Faten Kanaan
Mastered by Heba Kadry

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Faten Kanaan Amman, Jordan

Composer Faten Kanaan uses counterpoint as a narrative tool to create music that is mysterious, smudgy, and deeply melodic. From the repetitive structures of modern minimalism and early music influences, to more languid textural ebbs & tides, there's a warmth in her use of synthesizers that gives her work a curiously timeless feel.

Bio: Syrian-Palestinian-Jordanian-Lebanese.
b. Walsrode, Germany ... more

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