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Old World, New Ruins

by Abigail Toll

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RUIINS 04:48
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Hallows 09:14
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Old World, New Ruins is the title of the first EP by Abigail Toll, which she released under the collaborative moniker Ionian Death Robes with violinist Laury Achten.

The songs envision the dismantlement of power systems and control by disrupting melancholic, classical washes of drone with dissonant distressed instruments. They are a means to reconcile internal and external spaces in order to create a home in which we feel safe to cry and hear ourselves cry. They search through a world in turmoil: through the awakening of a nuanced, emotional language that oscillates between ferocity, despair, longing, anger, eroticism, determination, hope and vulnerability. The tracks draw on memory and passages of quiet reflection as a way to emerge from what Tiara Roxanne calls an "atmospheric fog" which can be both destabilising and debilitating.

Berlin based poet and scholar Tiara Roxanne contributes a vocal recording of her poem 'FWIW' to the song titled ‘A Prayer For The Body’ which echoes a line from the poem. Roxanne describes the relationship between the words and the original instrumental composition as a “lingering levitation of post heartache waving away a poltergeist.”

These versions of 'RUIINS' and 'Hallows' were developed under the mentorship of Caterina Barbieri during a residency with Amplify Berlin in September 2018.


Artwork by Isabel O'Toole
Special thanks to Caterina Barbieri, Shub Roy and Philipp Hülsenbeck.

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released January 30, 2019

compositions: Abigail Toll
flute, electronics: Abigail Toll
violin: Laury Achten
Track 2 'Hallows': electronics, Caterina Barbieri
Track 3 'A Prayer for the Body': poetry & voice, Tiara Roxanne

mixed by Abigail Toll
mastered by Turi Agostino

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Abigail Toll Berlin, Germany

Abigail Toll (UK/DE) is an experimental music artist and composer based in Berlin. Her psychoacoustic sound-worlds are a “beguiling concoction of abstract minimalism, pensive drone and thrumming electronics” (Boomkat). Her artistic research focuses on the anarchic sonic potential of datasets; ancient landscapes and architectures.

Debut record 'Matrices of Vision' on Shelter Press – out now.
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