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Hauntology is a concept album constructed as one long track split in six different sections, unified by one common leitmotif that inspired the whole work: the theme of late capitalism and its pervasive effects on the human being.

Sections:

I - 00:00 - Abjection
II - 05:31 - Blurred Memories of a Lost Identity
III - 10:01 - The Cage of Precorporation
IV - 12:57 - Desperate Aim for Momentum
V - 16:56 - Perpetual Waves Between States of Anxiety
VI - 22:05 - The Slow Cancellation of the Future


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Press Reviews:

"With alien and foggy sounds this little gem speaks directly to us and passes on a story, the story of a journey through the search for a future: an introspective journey, made of epiphanies, many small epiphanies that eventually turn into a great and decisive awareness that this future might not be a probability"
Antonio Sechi, Grind On The Road

"At once elusively disquieting and mysterious, Hauntology echoes with shadowy foreboding. It’s a grand work of ambient music."
Randall Radic

"Hauntology is a case study in the prolongation of everything most people - in their conscious minds, at least - actively attempt to escape.
The tune sounds like church music for some arcane ceremony, such as the drawing out of our lives in this postmodern existence we share with one another."
Deuce, Breaking and Entering

"Hauntology by Abiura is dark ambience at its heaviest. The way it develops themes and slowly adds layers and ideas seamlessly is mesmerising with the production techniques used in subtle yet powerful ways"
Jamie Parmenter, Vinyl Chapter
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I would describe this album as my own personal attempt to face Modernity and at least try to escape it through art, by representing the Real in musical terms.

The different sections of "Hauntology" are metaphorically the stages of a journey through the “ghosts” of the 21st century, the lost futures that are tormenting us and which are preventing us to imaginate different realities, by locking us in a cultural impasse.

The idea of this journey started from a thought that I personally find terrifying and inspiring at the same time: we tend to interpret “ideology” as something external that’s being imposed on us, but what if ideology has become our natural state? What if our most profound and inner desires are already born as a coherent piece in the structure of late-capitalism? Can we step outside this paradigm?

I tried to represent the haunting “uneasiness” of this dilemma through this album.

I hope that at the end of the journey the listener will be left with the feeling that the future is slowly fading away. And life, emotions, sounds, history... ultimately everything is disappearing with it. But also with the awareness that we still have art, and with it we can start to reimagine all sorts of alternative realities.

Thanks who everyone who has supported me and to whoever will listen to the entire album,

Daniele