Unseen Realm, by shanyio

Unseen Realm

by shanyio

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"Shanyio - “Unseen Realm” I felt like this 2019 release from Orb Tapes didn’t get the notice it deserved. It’s an interesting concept, the music moves as if in a movie. World noise folk? Faux soundtrack noir? Musique Concrete? It’s all of that and then some. Field recordings, oddly tuned instruments and bursts of noise would lead you to believe this could get out of hand quickly but Shanyio has an uncanny sense of narrative that ties all of this together and makes it sound like a cohesive whole.

The Romanian based composer has spread out various releases over the past decade or so through European labels and self releasing. There is a desire in the work to eschew genre to not follow a set structure, to tell whatever story he is trying to tell his way and however he needs to make that happen to achieve his aims so be it. The multi instrumentalist is adept on this recording using primarily dulcimer, organ, psaltery and field recordings.

“Unseen Realm” was one of my favorite releases of last year and if you are interested in engaging listens related to avant garde, noise, world music or musique concrete this should please you should you happen to seek. I am sure Orb Tapes still has copies of this so go out and get this under appreciated gem." (Samuel Goff)

Anybody can be a fan of Alexandru Hegyesi, aka Shanyio, because there are just so many points of entry, so many points of reference on a given release that there’s really just no excuse. Nominally a folk archivist, Shanyio combines his own material with field recordings and ambience and noise to translate a language (musical, but Romanian) into something completely new and compelling, a lexicon that’s easy to slip into once you’ve got the hang of it. And it’s not hard to get the hang of – I didn’t even need my Rosetta Stone tapes (a long discussion for another time) to work out the Shanyio worldview, which is good because that would’ve probably taken a couple weeks before I could even listen to “Unseen Realm” anyway. See how useless those tapes are? Wait’ll my boss hears about my latest Ukrainian “mishap.”

“Unseen Realm” can be treated like a real unseen realm, one where fairy tales and folklore exist among a population steeped in tradition. It’s like a village tucked away in the mountains in old Europe, where the ghosts still flit among the local tombstones and ancient hexes continue to ward off evil. It’s a deep dive into all that, and Shanyio is our guide, piping in local ensembles among his scrabbling and sculpting, his séance-ing and soothsaying, and those might even be the same thing. Here he’s curated an anthropological smorgasbord, delicate and fragile like ancient scrolls from some mountain library, yet robust and vibrant like the spells cast when the words are read on ancient scrolls from some mountain library. There’s just too much to delight in, too much unearthing of the mysterious and the bygone, too much here to educate you into the next version of yourself, which is probably even better than the version that’s stumbling around Starbucks and murmuring discontentedly about “wrong order” and “name’s not Bike Staley.”

Anyway, you’ll thank me for steering you toward “Unseen Realm” so you don’t have to shell out for a plane ticket and Airbnb somewhere in the heart of rural Eastern Europe. Unless you want to! Actually, I might look into it.
by Ryan Masteller www.tabsout.com?p=22724&fbclid=IwAR2y548GkQC1AkxnuyxPLoMjlGIMyuTWuXm4RLcCdE7__6ZC4JtKXZ3xGck)

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released November 1, 2019

Călin Torsan - caval (1)
Shanyio - kantele, psaltery, gusla, dulcimer, church pump organ, percussion, field recordings, mixing, photo
Bubu - cassette drawing

Recorded in 2018- 2019 + the field recordings were made in Dortmund & Nűrnberg / Germany and in Jimbolia, Timișoara / Romania

The first edition was released on tape by Orb Tapes (Pennsylvania / USA) 2019.

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shanyio Timișoara, Romania

As a improviser, Shanyio explores the use of prepared traditional instruments, everyday objects and electronic sounds. more experimental stuff here shanyionse.bandcamp.com

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