Kora >> Fragile EP (Earthly Delights) [Out Now]

by Mike Robia

Out now on Earthly Delights: beatport.com/release/fragile/1921567

Tracklist:
1) Kora - Vayu (Original Mix)
2) Kora - Fragile (Original Mix)
3) Kora - Fragile (Timujin Remix)

Embracing the mission to release culturally diverse music that crosses both physical borders and musical boundaries, the label’s second release, scheduled to drop early 2017, comes courtesy of Kora, a rising talent from Montreal, with releases on such labels as Kindisch. Fragile EP sees the artist explore the Earthly Delights ethos and run with it.

Opener ‘Vayu’ is beautifully textured, awash with melodic warmth. Kora’s production shows a lightness of touch and a delicate approach to percussion, while an ethereal Arabic vocal envelops and transcends the listener. The title track, ‘Fragile’, has a darker, though no less emotive, edge. Kora offers stripped back guitar chords and sorrow filled strings over lush pads. On remix duty Earthly Deligts own, Timujin – “an artist born on the playa of Burning Man desert and the founder of White Ocean Community. Though the sand of the playa rings through many if his tunes, it’s the new melodic variations that don’t stop to surprise…” he keeps the basic elements of ‘Fragile’ intact but quickens the pulse with weighty kicks and reverb, adding a real urgency that’s geared towards the dance floor.

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Out now on Earthly Delights: beatport.com/release/fragile/1921567

Tracklist:
1) Kora - Vayu (Original Mix)
2) Kora - Fragile (Original Mix)
3) Kora - Fragile (Timujin Remix)

Embracing the mission to release culturally diverse music that crosses both physical borders and musical boundaries, the label’s second release, scheduled to drop early 2017, comes courtesy of Kora, a rising talent from Montreal, with releases on such labels as Kindisch. Fragile EP sees the artist explore the Earthly Delights ethos and run with it.

Opener ‘Vayu’ is beautifully textured, awash with melodic warmth. Kora’s production shows a lightness of touch and a delicate approach to percussion, while an ethereal Arabic vocal envelops and transcends the listener. The title track, ‘Fragile’, has a darker, though no less emotive, edge. Kora offers stripped back guitar chords and sorrow filled strings over lush pads. On remix duty Earthly Deligts own, Timujin – “an artist born on the playa of Burning Man desert and the founder of White Ocean Community. Though the sand of the playa rings through many if his tunes, it’s the new melodic variations that don’t stop to surprise…” he keeps the basic elements of ‘Fragile’ intact but quickens the pulse with weighty kicks and reverb, adding a real urgency that’s geared towards the dance floor.