Thank you Spotify. I seldom play the playlists that are made ‘especially for me’, but yesterday I did. I got a bit of an ill-fitting track which was great nonetheless: “Osmium 0”. Some sort of ritual industrial track.
I looked up the rest of the album and learned that after a few separate tracks, the debut full length was released only a few days ago of a four piece project with an interesting line-up.
First we have Hildur Guðnadóttir, an Icelandic cellist who has worked with projects such as Throbbing Gristle and Sun O))). Then we have James Ginzburg who has more projects, one of them being Emptyset. Rully Shabara Herman is a to me unknown Indian vocalist and musician. Then we have the also unknown to me English composer Sam Slater who appears to work in experimental (classical) music more often.
The debut is (as things go nowadays) of 12″ length (38 minutes). The tracks are somewhat alike. There is a bass guitar type rhythm (is that the cello?), vocals that remind both Wardruna and Meta Meat and a background hum. Some of the tracks sound somewhat ritual industrial like, while others are more ambient. Here and there is drumming. The result is a nicely dark, somewhat surreal experimental music. Interesting!
