Label: IIKKI

匿名である事を重要視し自身のプロフィールは一切非公開、10年以上前にSoundCloudにて音源を公開していた謎プロジェクトEthan Syann。本作はこのプロジェクトが2013年から2015年にかけて録音していた唯一の音源を、フランスIIKKIが纏めアルバム化した[Farewell To The Night]。アコースティックと電子音を撚り合わせ作り上げた流麗なリフを、断続的にパチパチと途切れ途切れで鳴らしていく不思議な感触の作品。どこかミニマル的な催眠作用も確認出来る全6パート。この作品を発表後、作家としての活動を再開した模様。







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• Glass mastered CD
• Digisleeve : white cardboard 300 gm
• Outside : x 1 adhesive glossy paper
• Inside : thick paper card + x 1 sticker
• Hand made + hand numbered, limited edition to 150 copies, sealed
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"Farewell To the Night"is the result of a dialogue between the photographer Yorgos Yatromanolakis and the music artist Ethan Syann, initiated by IIKKI, between June 2024 and September 2025.

the complete project works in two physical imprints:
a book and a disc (vinyl/cd)
it should be experienced in different ways :
the book read alone
the disc listened to alone
the book and the disc read and listened to together.

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We know almost nothing about the music artist Ethan Syann. It's a choice from the musician behind his sounds to stay anonymous and far away from the lights. We don't know if he's behind some other projects or monikers. The only thing we know is that we discovered his works over a decade ago, via Soundcloud. At that time, the quality of the works, the unpredictable range of sounds and atmospheres gave his own imprint to Ethan Syann and the reason to have him on board at a point. It was an obvious fact to put the light on his first and only tracks, recorded between 2013 and 2015.
Today, he seems to come back in the area, and started again to record recently for some future projects to come. Yorgos Yatromanolakis choose his works between some various musicians propositions by us, and it has been the perfect match for IIKKI. This is his first release.
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Yorgos Yatromanolakis was born (1986) in Zaros, Crete. He lives and works between Athens and Crete. He studied Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Photography at Stereosis School, and is currently attending the MA program Photography: Research and Methodology at the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts, University of West Attica. He is co-founder of artist-run space Zoetrope, in Athens and contributor editor of Phases Magazine.

His artistic practice unfolds around experimental photography techniques, analog printing processes, artists’ books and audiovisual installations. He undertakes long-term photographic projects that he edits, combining storytelling, materials and design.

He has previously published three books: Roadblock To Normality (2016), Not Provided (2016) and The Splitting Of The Chrysalis & The Slow Unfolding Of The Wings (2018). Seven years after his last book, he returns with a highly anticipated new series: Farewell To The Night.

As with his acclaimed latest book, The Splitting Of The Chrysalis & The Slow Unfolding Of The Wing (2018), Farewell To The Night is a series inspired by the rites of passage that mark the transition from one phase of life to another, capturing the internal process of metamorphosis.
This time, as a young father and the journey that comes with it.
An existential journey, full of contradictions, inner struggles and constant change.

It reflects a new way of being, where responsibility coexists with anxiety, and where vulnerability is linked to tenderness and unconditional love.
This new photographic series places fatherhood in the present, in a fragile and uncertain world, and in a new emerging reality where the values and beliefs we once relied on seem to be crumbling.

In this light, Farewell To The Night acts not only as an emotional topography of a father's inner world, but also as an imaginary safe space, a calm and protective place to which he and his child can cling.