Art
Babylon
Abu Gharaq, Abu Gharaq Subdistrict, Al-Hillah District, Babil Governorate, Iraq
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What’s the story?
It’s 6 pieces of music with a Composer’s Commentary - the story behind the music, and 6 remixes. Each piece will be released with those 3 versions. The 6 pieces are linked in several ways. Babylon was conceived around three momentous events from pre-Christian history - the Hanging Gardens, the Tower of Babel, and the Great Flood, as well as more personal pieces about Kim’s mother and grandchildren. In the Composers Commentary version, Kim explores how stories have been absorbed and subverted by major religions, and, like Kim’s previous release Desiderium, the work is semi-autobiographical, mixing historical fact with his own life experience.
Audio samples
Garden
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Babylon I: Garden is about The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, who built them and why. (Pay attention, there might be a quiz later) There’s a piano melody buried deep in an ambient soundscape.
Tower
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Babylon II: Tower is about the Tower of Babel, where God gave us languages so we might spend millennia misunderstanding each other.
Landfill
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Babylon III: Landfill is a guitar-driven piece about what archaeology is It’s also about the loss of family, so the music decays and crumbles.
About the creator
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