This one kind of sneaked up on me. The first time I played it, my initial reaction was to wonder what all the fuss was about. I let it play while I got on with something else. But it slowly drew me in, and well before the end of its 78 minutes I was transfixed.
Hennix is described (by Wikipedia, anyway) as a “Swedish musician, poet, philosopher, mathematician and visual artist”. She got involved in computer-generated sounds in the ’60s, and in the ’70s was part of the New York minimalist scene, collaborating with the likes of La Monte Young, as well as studying raga under Pandit Pran Nath. She seems to have distilled down these experiences into some kind of platonic ideal on this record. It a recording of a 2017 performance on a thing called the tamburium, a custom-built “keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty-eight recordings of precision-tuned tambura“. It combines droning bass, meandering midtones, and shimmering treble. These basic themes are introduced right at the start, and their evolution over the continuous long-form piece is very gradual, but nevertheless there is a real sense of travel here. I’m sure I say this way too often, but if you’re willing to immerse yourself in this music, it has a hypnotic power that will linger long after the last of those chiming notes has faded away.
I bought this from Boomkat. They call it Dark Ambient / Drone / Metal.
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