Genesis P-Orridge & The Hafler Trio
Dream Less Suite
Two titans of post-industrial experimental music meet in a psychosonic flux drawn from recordings made but left unfinished due to Gen’s passing - an extraordinary 90 minutes of music for the headstrong, also featuring input by Eric Random and Z’EV
The first new album by The Hafler Trio since 2016, ’Dream Less Suite’ features its longstanding pilot Andrew McKenzie unearthing, resurrecting and completing a number of works made over the years with fellow outer-limits explorer Genesis P-Orridge (COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV). Bringing nearly a century of combined, lived experience and knowledge gleaned from the fringes of art music and collaborations with everyone from William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, to Autechre and Jóhann Jóhannsson to their music, the result is a compelling wormhole of multi-layered, multifaceted contemporary psychedelia that speaks to the unfathomable limits of their restless minds and contains the potential to unravel yours.
While input from Gen is apparent and key to ‘Dream Less Suite’, it’s very much a h3o album. As the title implies, the lysergic shapeshifting quality of the material and its zonked yet alert nature evokes the feeling of end-of-trip hours, when the gear has begun to fade but its effects linger. For many, that’s possibly an unpleasureable time, however those listeners who relish that between-world experience or have a mettle for getting twisted will be in their element here, lost to the endlessly slippery permutations of atonal asymmetry and unpredictable quiet/loud dynamics that give the album its captivating spirit and shape.
Pushing the limits of sanity and what can be contained on one side of vinyl, it arrives with the slow mulch of NWW-esque psych guitar flames, transitioning to spectral spatialisation of Gen’s vox in Alaura (yes)’, and shattered textures of ‘Veiled Threat (extract)’, and follows threads of primordial psych like Sperm splitting with Smegma on the 2nd side, before resolving to 22 minutes of scratchy ambient techno pulse like Zoviet France after hours in front of a Dream Machine in ‘E-am-E’, and committing an utterly powerful 23 mins of drone traction like an electronic echo of Harley Gaber’s sustained pitches in ’NOW<------->NOW’.
A master at work. Highly recommended.
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Two titans of post-industrial experimental music meet in a psychosonic flux drawn from recordings made but left unfinished due to Gen’s passing - an extraordinary 90 minutes of music for the headstrong, also featuring input by Eric Random and Z’EV
The first new album by The Hafler Trio since 2016, ’Dream Less Suite’ features its longstanding pilot Andrew McKenzie unearthing, resurrecting and completing a number of works made over the years with fellow outer-limits explorer Genesis P-Orridge (COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV). Bringing nearly a century of combined, lived experience and knowledge gleaned from the fringes of art music and collaborations with everyone from William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, to Autechre and Jóhann Jóhannsson to their music, the result is a compelling wormhole of multi-layered, multifaceted contemporary psychedelia that speaks to the unfathomable limits of their restless minds and contains the potential to unravel yours.
While input from Gen is apparent and key to ‘Dream Less Suite’, it’s very much a h3o album. As the title implies, the lysergic shapeshifting quality of the material and its zonked yet alert nature evokes the feeling of end-of-trip hours, when the gear has begun to fade but its effects linger. For many, that’s possibly an unpleasureable time, however those listeners who relish that between-world experience or have a mettle for getting twisted will be in their element here, lost to the endlessly slippery permutations of atonal asymmetry and unpredictable quiet/loud dynamics that give the album its captivating spirit and shape.
Pushing the limits of sanity and what can be contained on one side of vinyl, it arrives with the slow mulch of NWW-esque psych guitar flames, transitioning to spectral spatialisation of Gen’s vox in Alaura (yes)’, and shattered textures of ‘Veiled Threat (extract)’, and follows threads of primordial psych like Sperm splitting with Smegma on the 2nd side, before resolving to 22 minutes of scratchy ambient techno pulse like Zoviet France after hours in front of a Dream Machine in ‘E-am-E’, and committing an utterly powerful 23 mins of drone traction like an electronic echo of Harley Gaber’s sustained pitches in ’NOW<------->NOW’.
A master at work. Highly recommended.