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Broken

by ENONA

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1.
Rekindle 05:56
2.
Recollections 04:30
3.
Unspoken 03:50
4.
Lament 03:34
5.
Broke 02:09

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RIYL Max Richter, Goldmund, Dustin O’Halloran, Nils Frahm, KMRU

Building onward and inward from their debut, 2021’s The Challenge Is in the Moment, Brooklyn duo ENONA have returned less than a year later to offer a set of songs that are somehow both calmer and fuller than their freshman effort.

The follow-up is Broken, a small but potent collection of piano-centric compositions that hit hard and deep while retaining the restraint and meditative nature of the band’s previous work. Multi-instrumentalist Ron Tucker plays contemplatively and emotively atop Arun Antonyraj’s heavily processed guitar swells and soundscapes, creating a cavernous yet delicate backdrop for simultaneously porous and devastating melodies.

“Rekindle” gently opens the album with a live, in-the-room single take of three musicians (Marwan Kanafani joins Tucker and Antonyraj on Rhodes piano) that were once in the epic emo-pop outfit City Breathing coming together for the first time in a good while, reflecting on years apart and the simple, warm act of reuniting. It’s a gorgeous thesis statement for a record that afterward delves into meditations on class and caring for others, remembering and eulogizing during a difficult year of optimism and intensely gasping for air.

Whether it’s a flurry of pulsating sounds on “Recollections”, a sailing and carefully calibrated MIDI patch of strings on “Unspoken,” or the downright melancholic dirge of “Lament,” Broken argues that life is but a series of multitudes that require wordless catharsis. Tucker’s time at the end of the day, after work and his children are in bed (whom you can hear fluttering in the background and foreground on “Broke”), working through energies both disheartening and bright at his piano was the impetus this time for ENONA. “The piano is the escape, but the compositions are the reminder,” Tucker says.

Once again mixed by Charles Kessenich of ensemble, et al. and mastered by ambient music stalwart Rafael Anton Irisarri, with vivid album art by Rishi Neal Aurora (Sky Is Alright), Broken is now available to stream and download.

credits

released January 28, 2022

Written, performed, and recorded by Arun Antonyraj and Ron Tucker

Rhodes on “Rekindle” by Marwan Kanafani

“Rekindle” recorded and engineered at Tiny Telephone by Jacob Winnik

“Lament” recorded at Pencil Factory by Charles Kessenich

All tracks mixed by Charles Kessenich

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri, Black Knoll Studio (NY)

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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