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Aparde - Alliance '2021

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Alliance
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Album name Alliance
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Date 2021
GenreElectronic
Play time 33:18
Format / Bitrate 24 BIT Stereo 2429 Kbps / 96 kHz
Media WEB
Size 662 MB
PriceDownload $5.95
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Aparde’s new album, Alliance sees the German musician retreat from his
recent experimentations with avant-gard pop music back into the world of deep,
and oftentimes dark, electronica. For his previous album, Hands Rest, Aparde
ventured outside Berlin’s club scene through the use of his voice, which
gave his music a softer and more intimate edge. Alliance is no less intimate,
except this time the musician’s vulnerability seeps through the cracks
rather than taking center stage.

As impressive sonically as it is technically, Aparde used a mixture of
electronic sounds, analogue equipment and his own voice either as a sound
element or lyrical component to explore this duality of sound. “This album
was about focusing on something that calmed me down and brought me away from
reality,” says Aparde. When the musician says ‘away from
reality’, he doesn’t mean into dreamy, ethereal soundscapes, but
rather a deep dive into dystopian atmospheres of drone sounds and chewed-up drum
machines. Alliance’s second track, Allies has a dire beginning and one
might even be tempted in skipping it if it weren’t for Aparde’s
hushed voice shining through the shadows, melancholic yes, but also warm.
Despite the album’s focus on electronic gear the music isn’t
exactly dance-able, tracks have a ruminative pace, brooding even, “I
wanted to make the tracks with
more breathing space between the atmosphere and silence. There are fewer
elements but more
impact, I think,” says Aparde. Things change gears toward the middle of

Alliance, with both Lined and The Shift representing the colder, club-ier tracks
of the album. For both of these tunes, any emotionality gets converted into a
dense and thumping energy that is released in a cathartic fashion. It is, as
Aparde describes, music “for you to move to when you have a good moment or
a mental crisis”. But Aparde doesn’t leave it at that frequency; he
closes off the album courageously by letting listeners in, once again, to his
own world and emotions. While still a driving electronic track, Hole is framed
around melancholic piano keys that bring the mood down, and prepare listeners
for Know you, the album’s most intimate, and vulnerable piece. “I
never felt alright,” Aparde admits open-heartedly on the track.
With Alliance, Aparde brings listeners deep into his soul, a soul that is at
times conflicted and agitated and at times low-key and solemn. And as he does
so, the listener’s own mood is muted and lifted in a journey of quest,
dance and healing. 

Tracklist:
1.01 - Aparde - Locked (3:55) 
1.02 - Aparde - Allies (2:58) 
1.03 - Aparde - Unfamiliar (4:23) 
1.04 - Aparde - Lined (4:45) 
1.05 - Aparde - The Shift (5:58) 
1.06 - Aparde - Hole (5:13) 
1.07 - Aparde - Know You (4:07) 
1.08 - Aparde - End (2:04) 

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