The Challenge is in the Moment

by ENONA

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Vanishing Evocations 21:08
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Another Kind of Open 12:04
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Present Air Will Have to Do 10:36
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Sometimes the smallest sound leaves the greatest impression. Not quite minimalist and certainly not maximalist, ENONA is a new ambient duo out of Brooklyn sculpting tones both dulcet and digital, melodies both warm and distant — all crafted for an era full of isolation and unrest.

Arun Antonyraj and Ron Tucker share duties on various percussive, synth, and effected string instruments over three sprawling, captivating tracks that comprise their debut LP, The Challenge Is in the Moment. Side A belongs to the expansive opener “Vanishing Evocations,” a largely live Rhodes-centric performance and the perfect name (inspired, like the album’s title, by the inimitable James Baldwin) for the kind of cautiously slight but simultaneously fulminant soundscapes at which ENONA excels.

Side B starts with the brooding meditation “Another Kind of Open” — a composition that begs to be paired with a much-needed mid-pandemic stroll down a winter city street. Processed guitars and analog synthesizers burst and bloom in each other’s company. The piece’s tension and release happening in tandem, all the while taking the space and time to breathe through it.

Closing the album is “Present Air Will Have to Do,” a kind of lilting trance-inspired effort that lightens the proceedings while still prescribing a hefty dose of serious calm and care, with trills and pulses that both hypnotize and resonate, provided in part by a curiously rhythmic plastic box of breath mints by the band’s co-producer. The titles pay homage to Audre Lorde and Fugazi whose influence permeated the creation of the work.

All proceeds from the sale of this release are being donated to Cafe con Libros, an intersectional Feminist community bookstore and coffee shop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. www.cafeconlibrosbk.com

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released February 26, 2021

Arun Antonyraj: Guitars, Effects and Synthesizers
Ron Tucker: Fender Rhodes, Piano, Effects and Synthesizers
Jason Candler: Effected Saxophone on "present air will have to do"
Charles Kessenich: Tic Tac Shakers on "present air will have to do"

Recorded at Weak Things Have Power & Pencil Factory, Brooklyn, NY
Produced by ENONA and Charles Kessenich
Mixed by Charles Kessenich
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio
Album Design by Rishi Neal Arora

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ENONA Brooklyn, New York

instrumental/ambient duo sculpting dulcet tones with melodies both warm and distant.

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