{"product_id":"earthbound-2","title":"Earthbound","description":"\u003cp\u003eTouch with \u003cem\u003eEarthbound\u003c\/em\u003e, the third solo album by Istanbul-based composer Ipek Gorgun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 2019 to 2022, Gorgun drafted the record twice, then deleted most of her sketches. By the time she opened a new session, she had gone through an accidental electrocution, a cancer diagnosis, and an allergic collapse that nearly suffocated her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring treatment, chemotherapy left her in a cognitive fog known as \"chemo-brain,\" forcing her to relearn the craft of composition from scratch. While rebuilding her own focus, she watched her friends, relatives, and musical heroes battle illness, recover, or slip away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is \u003cem\u003eEarthbound\u003c\/em\u003e: a final, third iteration recorded in the quiet intervals between sunshine afternoons in the park, surgeries, funerals, long walks by the sea, emergency rooms, and snow-lit nights — above all, between days spent searching for sound and music. Yet, rather than foregrounding those ordeals, Gorgun surrendered to them, composing as a witness to the post-COVID world limping back to life in Janus; to the wavedrops rejoining the sea in Cloudbreak Swell; to a joyful stargazing experience in Moonbeams, to the attention-seeking power-drunk swagger in Edgelord; to memory dissolving at the doorway — the doorway effect — in Olvido; or to the way Middle-Eastern artists are ever more exotically consumed while their homelands splinter in Exocannibalism and Bon Pour L'Orient.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Touch","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":53486511915339,"sku":"R9875-0772","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cover.ki-1_e05e32f7-cc84-4635-b232-381eaa574f62.jpg?v=1758971297","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/earthbound-2","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}