“Wakeful” is the debut album by Haquin, featuring +18 musicians from Outtallectuals music label and beyond. Composed, refined, and meticulously crafted over 2 years, ‘Wakeful’ is a culmination of deeply personal emotions as they intertwine with the expression of collaborating artists who bring their instrumental, production or vocal expertise to the experience. The album explores the liminal states between wistful and cheerful, defeated and optimistic, focused and wandering, and isolated and connected. Sonically, the album’s genres span an eclectic yet continuous thread along organic downtempo, future garage, deep dubstep, lo-fi and jazzhop, nature-inspired ambient, IDM and world music.
The album’s darker songs, namely the stomping High Dude collaboration, Starless, the psychedelia of ‘Smoke And Mirrors’ with Maynix and Middle Eastern experimental garage of Dark Skies with Three Oscillators & Adam Maalouf, are balanced with more introspectively neutral tones of ‘Day Dream’ with IOM, and onto the more triumphant and resolving tones of ‘Sequence’, ‘Through the Trap Door’ & ‘Glow’.
credits
released February 3, 2023
Credits:
Adam Pitsillides - Cello on 1
Adam Maalouf - Hang drum on 10 & cello on 4
Arina Lernik – Sampled operatic vocals on 10
Brij Dalvi, a.k.a. Three Oscillators - Co-prod. & co-author on 3
Chalky - Guitars on 3
Daniel Haquin - Trombone on 2
Dominic Caudr, a.k.a. IOM - Co-prod. & co-author on 5
Gianluca Mannini, a.k.a. Maynix - Co-prod. & co-author on 3
Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones – Clarinet on 6
Hannah-Mae Birtwell - Saxophone on 6
Ieva Vaiti, a.k.a Piksel – Violin on 9
LARA – Vocals on 9
Lissa Robertson - Violin on 8
Lohan Le Galloudec, a.k.a. High Dude - Co-prod. & co-author on 2
Lorenzo Mantovani, a.k.a. Lo.Renzo - Sarangi & Guitars on 8
Sam Gillespie - Vocals & flute on 1
Sandy Finlayson - Saxophone on 7
Siria Grace Ruthstein – Sampled vocals on 2 & 3
SLUM - Rapping & lyrics on 6
supported by 8 fans who also own “Wakeful [OUTTA065]”
omg, this is awesome! i have been a huge tipper fan a long time, albums like broken soul jamboree & forward escape are rare electronic masterpieces. i have listen to this more than 100 times and i can detect always more layers...so ful of details in the background...a class of it's own, music and production are not from this world! dub orange
supported by 8 fans who also own “Wakeful [OUTTA065]”
I keep playing and playing this over and over again. Sometimes more often than others but I always seem to come back for that inner geometric reset of the hologram 👽I feel like I’m listening to the best representation of light = electricity = what we are 🙌 been following David’s story for 20+ since London days. There’s no fav one for me, the geometry comes full circle and it’s perfect! The joy is in the mystery my fellow beings ☀️ Papas