Name: Silvercoat the Throng
Brand: Hiro Kone

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Bonus disc: No

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DAIS174LPC2

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Orange

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[r20362588]

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-09-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

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0011586671836

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / orange

Artist

Hiro Kone

Genre GB

Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

Label GB

Dais

Dais Records is an independent American record label founded by Gibby Miller and Ryan Martin in 2007. Based in Los Angeles, California and New York, New York, Dais Records operates as a genre-agnostic label with a focus on experimental and avant-garde music. The label represents both emerging and established active artists while also curating rare and out of print material for reissue projects. Dais Records exclusively distributes its releases through Secretly Distribution.

Hiro Kone is an experimental electronic project hailing from the United States. It was initiated in 2011 by Nicky Mao, whose solo endeavor showcases a unique fusion of soundscapes and beats.
The name "Hiro Kone" derives from an Iroquois phrase meaning "I have spoken," reflecting the artist's intention to communicate through their music. Born in San Francisco, CA, Nicky Mao currently resides in New York, NY.
With influences ranging from Vatican Shadow to Demdike Stare, Hiro Kone's captivating compositions push boundaries and challenge conventional norms within the electronic music realm. This innovative approach has garnered them comparisons to artists such as Drew McDowall and Lakker.

New York electronic experimentalist Nicky Mao's 4th full-length, Silvercoat the Throng, emerged against the backdrop of lockdown, compelled by an intuitive directive: “resist the urge to fill the space.” Compositionally this translated as a simmering, shadowy energy, veiled but variable, traced in a composite of strings, synthetics, rhythm, and voice. The title alludes to a poetic notion of “possibility, rescued from darkness,” which aptly evokes the shape-shifting, devotional feel of these ambitious and elegant sound designs, crafted in defiance of impermanence, driven by the pursuit of becoming “more and more articulated, differentiated.”

Collaborations with travis from ONO, Speaker Music, and Muqata'a further expand the album's lyrical, liminal palette, meshing elements of experimental techno, spoken word, neo-classical, and industrial noise into a fluid, encrypted dialect all its own. Mao speaks of creative strategies of solidification and reification, encounter and transformation, pure being and punctuation – a multitude of sparks, fuses, and forking paths leading across fresh thresholds and twilit terrain. Taken as a whole, Silvercoat captures Hiro Kone at the peak of their powers, alchemizing disruption and decomposition into regenerative interior worlds: “Within the darkness and absence is an opportunity for discovery.”

Silvercoat the Throng

Music GB

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