MAULÃN: Drone / Experimental Solo Artist Releases Stunning New Single âRostroâ (Feat. Behzad Barazandeh); Two-Part EP To See Release Via Icons Creating Evil Art

August 12, 2022 Infrared Magazine News, Press Releases Comments Off

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Drone/experimental solo artist MAULÃN will release his stunning El Miedo De Amar Pero Igual Lo Hago via Icons Creating Evil Art in early 2023. El Miedo De Amar Pero Igual Lo Hago, which translates to âthe fear of falling in love but I still do it,â will be released as a two-part EP, the first of which, El Miedo De Amar, will see official unveiling on September 29th.

Named in honor of his grandmother, a member of the Mapuche people in Chile, MAULÃN (which translates to âa wet valleyâ) is the brainchild of composer/musician/artist Carlos Ibarra. Through careful collaboration with a multitude of artists, MAULÃN creates art with the ambition of manifesting something unique, beautiful, strange, and alluring.

In 2019, after spending a year composing material, Ibarra began work on a solo record. He recorded the music in a subterranean water cistern that has been abandoned for almost one-hundred years and is located 20 meters under a small hill in Gothenburg, Sweden. This water cistern just happened to have magical natural reverbs that are up to eighteen seconds long. Working in this was a true challenge: electricity was limited, it was wet, cold, and full of rats and spiders. Not many recording engineers would do it, but Carlos Sepulveda (Psycore, Leather Nun) was up to the task. For four magical days, Sepulveda and drummer Stefan Johansson (Abrovinch, Jimmy Ãgren), worked in this enchanting setting.

The following year, Ibarra went to the Thar desert in India to find the peace and serenity necessary to write the lyrics to these songs only to get stuck there during the outbreak of Covid-19. This served as a huge inspiration for the lyrics of his upcoming album: El Miedo De Amar Pero Igual Lo Hago. The record touches on the subjects of loss, heritage, and the feeling of belonging or not belonging with lyrics sung in Spanish, Polish, Arabic, Persian, and French.

In advance of the release of El Miedo De Amar, today MAULÃN reveals first single, âRostro,â noting of the captivating, near-ten-minute hymn, “This was the first song I wrote for this album back in 2019. The lyrics are about a connection I got with someone and in just a few days she was gone from my life forever.Â The song is a slow and beautiful monolith in Persian featuring Behzad Barazandeh on vocals. With an epic and melancholic mood the song takes you on an journey inwards towards your inner darkness.”

Hear MAULÃNâs âRostroâ via the streaming service of your choice at THIS LOCATION.

Carlos Ibarra began his career as a guitarist and songwriter in various local bands before reaching infamy and notoriety across the metal and punk scene in Europe as a guitarist/songwriter/producer of the death metal act Age Of Woe. With them, he recorded two albums and two EPs: Inhumanform (Suicide Records, 2013) and An Ill Wind Blowing (War-Anthem, 2016). He has also released music with Terrorstat, a band featuring members of Walk Through Fire and Serpent Omega as well as Wefring featuring members of The Leather Nun, Exhale, and Psycore, among others.