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“The Silence Between the New World and The Aftermath” is the 4th solo album by Lebanese musician, composer and producer Marc Codsi, following ‘Faded Postcards’ (2010), ‘Works & Coincidences’ (2013), and ‘The New World’ (2019).
The album consists of a collection of pieces composed between 2019 and 2021, and assembled to form a homogeneous ensemble, a poem of sorts. The ten compositions consist of Codsi’s reactions and responses to the events taking place in Lebanon during this period of two years, from feelings of hope spurred on by the Lebanese revolution that began in earnest in October 2019, to the strong sentiments of alienation brought on by its eventual demise, all of the chaos that ensued, and the final, desolate silence.
“The Silence Between the New World and The Aftermath” deploys a series of poignant musical vignettes, reflecting different events in Codsi’s life, where the political and the personal are often intertwined; where fragments of songs meander into instrumental noisescapes; where the analog meets the digital; where electric guitars, rudimentary synths and disembodied voices contort around one another gracefully at first, then less and less so.
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released July 22, 2022
All music composed, performed and produced by Marc Codsi
Recorded in Paris between 2019 and 2021
Vocal samples on Hangar #12 by Lynn Adib and Marie Abou Khaled
Mixed by Marc Codsi in March 2022
Mastered by Cedrik Fermont at Syrphe, Berlin
Photo by Tanya Traboulsi
Layout & design by Maya Chami
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released December 11, 2022