Ohad Fishof’s latest LP marks his first solo album since 2019’s Album 1 (Entr’acte). In Witchcraft and Gardening, he continues to expand his highly personal musical idiom, constructing a oneiric narrative out of a multifaceted mixture of songs, instrumentals, and in-between hybrids. It is a tapestry that allows for a wide expressive range—from abstract electro-acoustic configurations to avant-pop sequences.
Witchcraft and Gardening is highly textured, constructed and layered with processed field recordings, synths, flutes, and a variety of voices—talking, singing, murmuring, humming—often distant and obscured, heard from afar or from beyond; at other times, crisp and direct, and occasionally caught halfway in a gibberish, contradictory formation of both. The shapes of language, rather than its meanings, take center stage in this album—though there are also conventional lyrics. Nature is present here: sizzling, shining, rumbling. Humans are present: conversing, declaring, yearning. Technology is present: buzzing, humming, flashing.
Ohad Fishof is an interdisciplinary artist and performer. His work spans and intersects sound, performance, dance, video, and text, and has been presented worldwide. His creations are predominantly time-based, often exhibiting a deep-rooted inclination toward the performative. In his performance, video, and installation work, Fishof regularly integrates sound, human movement, voice, text, images, and digital media. He typically works either solo or collaboratively with other dancers, musicians, and performers.
