A SELF PORTRAIT
Mystic Instrumental Music, Cinematic Sounds
A concept album without concept:
With «A Self Portrait» Inez known under the new name INEZONA releases her probably most intuitive/intimate album so far.
Inez is the queen of spherical melodies and has set the desert of Arizona on her last album “Now”to mystical Desert Pop music. Now known under the new name «INEZONA» the [female] multi-instrumentalist releases “A Self Portrait”, ten gorgeous instrumental tracks and her probably most intuitive/intimate album so far.
Technically the year 2020 should have been determined by various trips, musical exchanges and wandering minds according to Inez’ original plans. After her Artist Residency in Colombia, South America, was cancelled due to the global pandemic, she was instead unintentionally stuck in South Germany not far from the Swiss border during the first lockdown. In the seclusion of an old mill in Binzen, in an arts oriented environment of friends, aloof of all the pandemonium she was able to find ease and great creative freedom.
She created music. On a gut level, just for the fun of it, without any particular purpose, and she equipped herself with what ever instruments she would find in the mill -– Banjo-Ukulele, Ukulele, electric and acoustic guitar, violin, kitchenware served as percussion instruments, a microphone. She recorded and retained her creations once a day, almost mantra like.
That’s how, in-between April to May 2020, ten lovely spherical instrumental tracks originated for «A Self Portrait» on which Inez keeps packing her portfolio [/back-catalog?] as a profound [female] sound artist. She deemed her new musical diary has to be accompanied visually as well and like that each song turned into a video, too – partly staged and filmed on the spot [at the mill], partly with movie material from the past which she edited herself.
Whether fleet-footed and breezy with the Landrover flying through the fields on “Binzenland”, or in mystical worlds (of dance) in “A Self Portrait”, with a hint of Tucson, Arizona, clapping and the melancholia of the travelling people [Brit. didicoy] in “Dancer In The Desert”, or a kind of ritual of death, a touching dead man allegory, where the issue of meaning and life meets with humor in “My Daily Routine Of Dying”: “A Self Portrait” is a philosophical album, that feeds the thoughts about life, without having to couch them. They are regained in atmospheres, in tones of cinematic beauty, in the combining of sounds with pictures of engrossed, even almost surrealistic slowness and elegancy. And ever and anon the enchantingly lost in reverie voice of Inez wafts beyond everything.
She is calling and inviting us, to follow her on a carpet of harmonies into a whole nother world [ oder: into new dimensions], plain into her “zone”, into the “INEZONA”.
“A Self Portrait” was written by INEZONA in April and May 2020, single-handedly recorded and mixed, and presents music of cinematic power, which abducts into the eternalness and nonchalantly draws one under its spell. Round fifteen years ago Inez has started her musical solo pathway, now she has found her own unique essence and “zone”.
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