Throat (2017) is Hasan Hujairi’s first solo album published through Paxico Records (LA/NY). The album was released digitally and in a limited edition of 100 cassettes. The album also includes three bonus remixes by Devonwho, Josh Hey, and F.L.O.T.E.
The track listing is as follows:
1. Time Plates 2. Good Day for a Fight 3. Long Distance Cumbia 4. An Interlude (or: The I-80 Apology) 5. Urbandale 6. Another Interlude (or: Permission to Become a Bad Son) 7. Variations on a Love Song for Foreign Bureaucracy 8. Pause 9. Mellifluous Hiraeth 10. Cities of the Future 11. Miracle Men 12. Prelude for Orpheus #2 13. Chongganbo Cartography #2.1 14. Halifax Heavy #2 15. Mellifluous Hiraeth (Devonwho remix) 16. Prelude for Orpheus #2 (Josh Hey remix) 17. Mellifluous Hiraeth (F.L.O.T.E. remix)
Pause
This is a music video for one of the tracks entitled Pause. Video made by Monica Yi.
On Throat
“To describe Hasan Hujairi as a musician alone seems myopic, considering the intellectually voracious angle from which he pursues his craft. From picking the brains of musical legends to excavating the lost works of forgotten artists from his home country of Bahrain, Hasan is better characterized as an intrepid explorer of sound, using the sensibilities of a scientist and a scholar to approach the mystical zones between life and art.
But as Hobbes said, “Reasoning is nothing but reckoning.” As a creator, Hasan renders computational reckonings of mental states, using his findings to translate the souls of things into electronic music – to forge a connection from the human mind to the brain of the machine. The results exist on the edge of reflexive and logical, the process endlessly experimental by nature.
This is consummate in his debut release THROAT – a mysterious and alluring collection of sonic gems, and a self-contained survey of perceptual and bodily experience. Within it, familiar sounds take on uncanny biological functions, igniting synapse after synapse until each track becomes a living, breathing organism. The manipulation of found sounds stir the heart and overwhelm the senses. And Hasan brings a gorgeous approximation of flesh and blood processed down to the singular particle, a blueprint of the distinctive throat from which he sings.”
— Paxico Records