{"product_id":"kin-leonn-commune","title":"Kin Leonn - Commune","description":"\u003cp\u003eCD limited to 1000: Customized CD sleeve + insert.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In endless patience, the days abide. They write themselves: blue flourish and tender instinct. They are haunts and reveries and all manner of dwelling. They are seconds; they are years. They are forevermore.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommune is the debut full-length album by Singapore born, London-based producer, composer, electronic artist and pianist, Kin Leonn. Heralding a new era of accomplished young musicians in Singapore, Kin Leonnʼs transportive music projects as founding member of electronic act ‘midstʼ, and his genre-melding solo DJ sets, have instituted him as an in-demand music presence in the cityʼs thriving electronic underground.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAffectionately known by peers as the “ambient boy from Singapore”, Kin Leonnʼs arresting dream-music in Commune is sourced from a well of preconscious phrases, an evocative meditation of sorts – perhaps one that transmutes the city dross into a peaceful self-discovery in search of spiritual unity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommune is an atmospheric work mostly recorded using upright piano, reverb-soaked guitar, and synthesisers, with altered virtual instruments and other digital elements added later to create a tension between the organic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand the synthetic. The moods are contemplative and the melancholy, almost all-pervasive. However, within this framework, Kin Leonn explores as much ground as he can, from sweeping ambient bliss to understated piano etudes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrative song titles like Shinrin-yoku and Somewhere evoke inviting landscapes of reflection and resonance. The more electronic, rhythm-oriented cuts – particularly twin centerpieces Visionary and There were days – find common cause with the producerʼs approach of balancing programmed and improvised music, before dissolving into a liberating resolution of harmonics and noise. Quieter moments in Desire #9 and Detached also stun with their hypnotic beauty and spaciousness, revealing the artistʼs cinematically-attuned approach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis very sense of fluidity and non-structure gives the record its shape-shifting identity, but across 10 songs and 43 minutes, Commune still functions as a single, cohesive piece of music. Itʼs easy to get lost in the album and it’s a pleasantly disorienting sensation. In the closing piano track, Nightlight serves as the coda for the whole album, showing that Kin Leonnʼs strength as a musician isnʼt all about production complexity, but in the emotional nuance he is able to coax from his instruments with sure instinct and enormous sensitivity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an album of longing, nostalgia, revelation, and other curious introspections. It is a dive into the subconscious and a documentation of the sensibilities encountered along the way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHowever, more than that, ‘Commune’ is the expression of a common subconscious – one we’ve all been accorded with and share. A place where words fall short in describing the many layers of why we feel the way we feel, or why we desire the way we desire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNonetheless, it is a place we are drawn to share with others, like nightly companions lying silently together as the stars flicker before them. ‘Commune’ is a personal exploration into this common ground of human emotion.” – Kin Leonn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1. Skin \u003cbr\u003e2. Shinrin-yoku (Part I)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e3. Shinrin-yoku (Part II) \u003cbr\u003e4. Desire #9 \u003cbr\u003e5. Somewhere \u003cbr\u003e6. Visionary \u003cbr\u003e7. Detached \u003cbr\u003e8. There Were Days \u003cbr\u003e9. Noumenal \u003cbr\u003e10. Nightlight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kitchen.","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":67994242646292,"sku":"KI023","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":67994242679060,"sku":"KI023","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1035\/0284\/0084\/files\/N_23_Commune_Kin_Leonn.jpg?v=1793920096","url":"https:\/\/primeunion.shop\/products\/kin-leonn-commune","provider":"Linden \u0026 Oak","version":"1.0","type":"link"}