Arriving End June
Another addition to the ever-growing environmental-concreté continuum with this latest record by Stockholm-based composer Siri Jennefelt under her Nev Lilit alias. Hyperit evolved from a series of performance lectures Jennefelt shared with philosopher Jonna Bornemark in which she would amplify herself digging through soil and rocks on a purpose-built lawn. That performance has now been re-developed into a recording project with the addition of extra sounds and field recordings, and is designed to explore the sonic possibilities of a variety of geological structures - magma, meteorites, the Earth's inner crust etc. So that's the concept and practice, what does it actually sound like? Elemental, unsurprisingly, balanced somewhere between drone, noise, and less expectedly on the mega title track, the kind of subaquatic dub-techno of someone like Porter Ricks (Porter Rocks, in this case!). For a record of such weighty intellectual origin, it's remarkable how accessible I found this, positioned somewhere between Rashad Becker's Traditional Music of Notional Species, late period Werkbund's interest in the ocean, and FUJI||||||||||TA's (always a fun name to type that one) bat cave recordings. Not just one for the cerebral cortex - you'll feel this in the chest, too.
FFO: Rashad Becker, Porter Ricks, Werkbund, FUJI||||||||||TA
