seht - Hrry
*DEEPLY IMMERSIVE DEATH AMBIENT ANDLAYERED DRONES - LIMITED COPIES ONLY* New Zealander Stephen Clover's Seht project returns to the Digitalis imprint for his followup to 2006's 'The Green Morning'. For 'Hrry' Seht crafts ultra subtle drone atmospheres and spectral ambient scapes, at times coming across like a mumbled Messiaen, a darker cousin to Eno or the perfect bedfellow for the recent Leyland Kirby series. Spooked drum machines underpin much of the A-side, slowing the rhythms until they sound like approaching footsteps or a full sunken and quasi-speed version of industrial techno like Zhark's Kareem reworked by Oren Ambarchi. Here, organ notes are held with the meditative quality of someone who can slow their pulse to the bare minimum, until they're stretched so far a guttural subbass underbelly is required to fill the vacuum of grey space. The B-side largely abandons the rhythmic framework for five much shorter yet expansive compositions, craftily mixing alien sounds across the audio field while moving to different scenes of cinematic narrative, from archaic silent movie drama to dystopian sci-fi abstraction, recalling the paranoid feel of Philip K. Dick, or maybe imagining Darren Aronofsky working with Stars Of The Lid instead of The Kronos Quartet. This is music built with a rarified, unsettling and subtly spectral quality in mind that late night listeners will find hard to separate from the ambient drones of fridges, traffic and computers, blurring the distinctions between his reality and yours. Incredible music, limited copies.
