Ziúr belongs to a generation of producers redefining Berlin club music from the periphery – freeing it from entrenched techno formulas. This open-minded approach on Home results in music that barely fits under the label of club music. Instead, the album unfolds as a collection of tracks situated somewhere between electroacoustic ambient, experimental electronica and art-pop – a darkly shaded work that reads like an introspective soundtrack, often somnambulistic, never affirmative.
Ziúr strips her tracks down to the bare minimum, sometimes to the brink of collapse – yet they retain a nervous, often hypnotic pull, as heard in the meandering »No Place Like«. The title Home already gestures toward complex notions of belonging – homeland, origin, care, retreat. Ziúr uses the album to reflect on her own relationship with German identity, avoiding symbolism or sentimentality.
For the first time, she sings in German on »Im Bann Der Wehenden Fahnen« – »betrunkener Stolz, der Seele entrissen« (»drunken pride, torn from the soul«) – a line that articulates a socially critical stance with clarity and restraint. The musical setting remains minimal throughout: dragging piano loops, clattering electronics, a subdued sense of drama. Home is a radically subjective yet musically multifaceted search for a place that may not exist – or that only emerges in the act of searching.
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