A debut that’s 7 years in the making, Syrian-Armenian American composer KÁRYYN’s The Quanta Series is a work of rarefied scope and unparalleled vision: unlike anything you’ve heard. ‘Ever’ moves like an eviscerating hurricane, a larger than life meditation on the eternal. ’Yajna’ cuts a slighter figure, enlarged by KÁRYYN’s astounding vocal performing great feats of strength. Nowhere is the artist as strong as on ‘Ambets Gorav’, which takes one of Armenia’s best-loved songs and sets it against a mourning drone. The alchemical makeup of The Quanta Series takes genre-agnosticism to sublime heights, commanding a love of mainstream pop, heart-stopping electronic music, and operatic intensity into a striking work of shared memory and cultural identity.