Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri – In a Quiet Radiance

About two years ago, two of my favorite composers got together after a live performance and recorded a fantastic album. This timeline feels strangely like it was just yesterday, and also like a long time ago. Even the cover of the follow-up is like an echo of colors, although I assure you, that’s an entirely different image featuring a newly glazed vessel. The music, revisited and refired, marks a brand-new progression in the sonic object that these two artists sculpt. It is at once more polished, radiant, and softer. It’s fully organic, with the strings and the voice, courtesy of the two new collaborators appearing on the record: Martina Bertoni and Andrea Burelli, who will perform along with Abul and Rafael as an ensemble in the duo’s forthcoming three-day residency at Morphine Raum in Berlin. The recording was captured through a 1970’s mixing console and microphones placed in this open space, and then further refined, reshaped, and remolded back in their respective studios, as Rafael and Guido exchanged the stems. The result is a gorgeous requiem, worthy of a cathedral’s elegy, elegant and divine, and its beauty spreads the warmth of its heavenly sound from the duo’s minds to mine. And in this increasingly synthetic world, where even others’ words appear to be too difficult to write out without some artificial assistance, it’s nice to be part of something genuinely unique, humanely authentic, and ultimately real. And these are my honest words, on this honest music. Enjoy the exclusive quotes on this album below.