Ekin Fil

Maps

Ekin Fil continues her quietly complex dream-pop oeuvre on 'Maps'. For many years now, this Istanbul musician has been writing mysterious and haunting songs, rich in heavy-reverb effects and an introspective torpor. Her poetics of silence on her previous recordings had been noted as an antidote or a dream capsule of sound in response to Istanbul's cauldron of politics, culture, and philosophy that has been boiling almost since the beginning of civilization. The saddest songs of The Durutti Column excised of rhythm and those few plunges into sorrow by Harold Budd make for apt comparisons to 'Maps', in addition to the drone-on classics of Grouper, Slowdive, and Sarah Davachi.

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