Faten Kanaan‘s music has a transporting quality that is hard to define. The manual repetition of her approach — performing looped keyboard parts entirely by hand — lends her electronic compositions a human feel, as does her choice of organic-leaning sounds and tones. But there is always something otherworldly about them, an abstraction that suggests a natural world shimmering just out of reach.
Diary of a Candle, Kanaan’s sixth album and third for U.K. indie Fire Records, may be her most enigmatic release yet. Its mystique is undeniable — each piece unfolds like a chapter in a dark fairytale that goes nowhere and everywhere. Tracks like “Afternoon” and “Celadon” have a curious, questing nature, though it’s unclear…

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