Faith Coloccia and Alex Barnett return to Blackest Ever Black with their second duo album, Weld; working with synthesizers, affected vocals, raw electrical noise, field recordings, EVP techniques, tape manipulation and drum machines to create a music at once lucid and mystic. Its songs embody various experiential philosophies and objectives: searching for the sacred in the forgotten and supposedly useless; exploring the meaning of 'natural'; listening for the pulse of the ancient; using technology both to materialise memory and to dream a folklore for a future age.
Coloccia and Barnett's ambition is apparent early on in the stately, medievalist keyboard/choral poetics of Truth Teller', moving through the agitated wormhole techno of Dreamsnake', to the white light-emitting, near-symphonic plainchant of Healer'. Blight''s zero-hour synth pulsations are first interrupted, then engulfed, by an extra-terrestrial broadcast of piercing bell and glass-tones; AM Horizon'is pitched bewitchingly between Prophet-5 pulp futurism and earthbound, atavistic dread; Agate Cross''s baroque harmonic sequence disintegrates at its very climax, cooling and dissipating into a deep starfield of pure tone.
Ash Grove'and Rose Eye'are exhilarating exercises in contemporary musique concrète: complex timbral constructs in which Coloccia's disembodied glossolalia, swooping strings and other nameless sonic spectra conspire to evoke extra-dimensional space and the highest spiritual drama.
Weld speaks its own distinctive dream-language, but we would certainly recommend it to anyone enamoured of the brittle sci-fi synth-scapes in Caroline K's Now Wait For Last Year, the amorphous electronics of Beatriz Ferreyra's recent work, Conrad Schnitzler's more gothic moments, and even the gravest metaphysical reckonings of a Stockhausen or a Rozmann.
Tracklisting:
1. Truth Teller
2. Dreamsnake
3. Healer
4. Blight
5. AM Horizon
6. Rose Eye
7. Agate Cross
8. Ash Grove
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Sold outFaith Coloccia and Alex Barnett return to Blackest Ever Black with their second duo album, Weld; working with synthesizers, affected vocals, raw electrical noise, field recordings, EVP techniques, tape manipulation and drum machines to create a music at once lucid and mystic. Its songs embody various experiential philosophies and objectives: searching for the sacred in the forgotten and supposedly useless; exploring the meaning of 'natural'; listening for the pulse of the ancient; using technology both to materialise memory and to dream a folklore for a future age.Visit product page →
