Faten Kanaan

Faten Kanaan, photo by Olena Shkoda. Faten Kanaan, photo by Olena Shkoda. IDA NOYES, 3RD FLOOR THEATRE FREE, RSVP REQUIRED–TICKETS AVAILABLE Composer, musician, and producer Faten Kanaan uses counterpoint as a narrative tool to create music that is mysterious, smudgy, and deeply melodic. As she draws on the repeating structures of modern minimalism and early music/baroque influences, amid textural ebbs and flows, there is a warmth in her use of synthesizers, live keyboards, and other electronic instrumentation. Her new album Diary of a Candle is a consoling melodic suite, minimal and nuanced, featuring woodwinds and richly-layered strings, with the hazy atmospheres of certain films from the 1970s and 1980s. Written while looking out at her garden in Amman, Jordan, where she recently relocated after twenty years in New York, her new songs are infused by this new, yet familiar, topography.