Name: Silvercoat the throng
Brand: Hiro Kone

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Catalogue number

DAIS174lp

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Black

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-09-28

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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011586671843

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

Artist

Hiro Kone

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

DAIS Records

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

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