Global Loss

Ekpyrosis

Genre: ELECTRONIC

Limited Edition CD

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Rio De Janeiro’s superb Liga Do Vento Divino label proffers Global Loss’ debut sermon on cryptic, eschatological matters as part of the label’s wyrd initiations = really trippy DIYstopian, syncretic soft synth chicanery like Hype Williams x Spencer Clark x László Hortobágyi.

‘Ekpyrosis’ introduces to the world at large Global Loss; a furtive figure who may, or may not, moonlight among other names on the heavily beguiling label, Liga do Vento Divino. Under a title translating from ancient Greek as ‘conflagration’, relating to Plato’s belief in a periodic destruction of the universe, Global Loss presents something like a sermon dreamt by an AI god and expounded to exiles congregated in a death cult encampment deep in the Amazon jungle. The dozen parts deploy the sort of sonic palette heard in László Hortobágyi’s imaginative new age ambient and Spencer Clark’s fever dreams, but also laced with eerie-as-chuff church organs and unidentifiable voices that simultaneously soothe and unnerve along oneiric lines of extended melodic thought interrupted by shards of noise, phantasmic spirits and possessed cyberpunk club prang-outs.

No doubt it all recalls Thessaloniki’s Live Adult Entertainment in its pursuit of pulpy fantasy, but is nonetheless distinguished by a certain dare-to-differ thrust and strange sense of temporality that we also keep hearing in contemporary Brazilian musicks, especially on the Lugar Alto label, and brings the country’s resoundingly rich musical heritage into a modern LiDAR spotlight on the uncanny valley. The lysergic plunge of microtonal fractals received with ‘An Angel Has Received A Message’ flick open the pineal to a ritualist procession of spirit-gnawing mutant gospel in ‘Kültte Dünyanın’, and tense cybernoir EBM on ‘Priory of False Truths’, opening out into psychoactive staging of ‘Unlimited Eyes’ and pitching fanfare of ‘Nederen Geldim’, which appear to prepare one for the 16’ of Jehovah’s Witness instructional vid commandments in ‘Imago Dei Ritual’, and culmination of petrified dungeon synth coda to ‘Immortal By Stone’.

No easy answers to this one, but there’s definitely some sort of meaning to decode for adventurous souls who can tell what we’re grasping at, and surely manifest in the music. If you like your enigmas wrapped in a riddle, this one’s unmissable.

Limited Edition CD (12)