The enigmatic allure and environmental tragedy of Arctic regions provides impetus to Frederikke Hoffmeier (Puce Mary) and Jesse Sanes’ 2nd set of collaged tapestry as Free The Land
Also recording as JH1.FS3 and Fejhed in recent years, the duo now return to the project that supplied a highlight of Ascetic House’s 2018 release schedule with ‘Global Ecophony: Audio Transmissions From The Exhibition.’ Their aesthetic palette remains similar to their previous one on ‘Arctic Freedom’, comprising vocal snippets, field recordings and original synthesis, but is arranged in a more precise and variegated manner that’s less impressionistic and more figurative, from the descriptive track titles to the physical presence of their recordings.
’Svalbard Global Seed Bank’ starts out like a tourist trip to the important Norwegian facility, but soon turns more anxious and impending with its detailed, Chris Watson-esque rearrangement of location samples and textured synthesis, setting a more intricate template that they trust into a sort of Brinkmann-like minimal bleep techno on ‘gas-emission craters of the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas’, whereas ‘Permafrost Loss and bacillus anthracis outbreak in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug’ evokes a more menacing, encroaching sort of evil, and ‘The essential goal of human beings is to transcend, not dominate the biological, with a view toward bringing a new input: consciousness’ seeps with ancient sounding whistles, whimpering huskies and mottled AI voices that hint at some sort of spiritual gnosis.
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The enigmatic allure and environmental tragedy of Arctic regions provides impetus to Frederikke Hoffmeier (Puce Mary) and Jesse Sanes’ 2nd set of collaged tapestry as Free The Land
Also recording as JH1.FS3 and Fejhed in recent years, the duo now return to the project that supplied a highlight of Ascetic House’s 2018 release schedule with ‘Global Ecophony: Audio Transmissions From The Exhibition.’ Their aesthetic palette remains similar to their previous one on ‘Arctic Freedom’, comprising vocal snippets, field recordings and original synthesis, but is arranged in a more precise and variegated manner that’s less impressionistic and more figurative, from the descriptive track titles to the physical presence of their recordings.
’Svalbard Global Seed Bank’ starts out like a tourist trip to the important Norwegian facility, but soon turns more anxious and impending with its detailed, Chris Watson-esque rearrangement of location samples and textured synthesis, setting a more intricate template that they trust into a sort of Brinkmann-like minimal bleep techno on ‘gas-emission craters of the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas’, whereas ‘Permafrost Loss and bacillus anthracis outbreak in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug’ evokes a more menacing, encroaching sort of evil, and ‘The essential goal of human beings is to transcend, not dominate the biological, with a view toward bringing a new input: consciousness’ seeps with ancient sounding whistles, whimpering huskies and mottled AI voices that hint at some sort of spiritual gnosis.