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SOLO ANDATA — Ritual
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"After the highly praised Fyris Swan (Hefty) and S/T (12K), Solo Andata return with Ritual, a meticulously-crafted album emphasizing an engagement with the unknown.
Ritual is Solo Andatas third full-length album and also the inaugural release for the Buffalo-based label, Desire Path Recordings. This limited edition 12LP consists of four glorious sonic topographies that are altogether spellbinding, eerie, visceral and energetic. Ritual, similar to Solo Andatas self-titled album on 12k, is fundamentally made up of organic sounds, such as primitive gongs, bells and bowls, wildlife and environmental recordings, sacred chants, the vibration of human cancerous cells, cleavers, and prepared piano. These four pieces seem to work toward a repetition or ritual between disparate elements so as to transport us, via a magical spell, to dense otherworldly habitats. In fact, the title of the twenty-minute piece Incantare translates as to chant (a magical spell upon), which derives from in, into, unto and cantare, to sing. For the eight-minute piece Carving, there exists a ritualistic image similar to that of Kafkas In the Penal Colony, where an intricate carving device inscribes the Condemned prisoners sentence onto his flesh. The whole affair of Ritual is bound to leave listeners mesmerized by its vividness and bewitched by its intensity."
www.desirepathrecordings.com
Ritual is Solo Andatas third full-length album and also the inaugural release for the Buffalo-based label, Desire Path Recordings. This limited edition 12LP consists of four glorious sonic topographies that are altogether spellbinding, eerie, visceral and energetic. Ritual, similar to Solo Andatas self-titled album on 12k, is fundamentally made up of organic sounds, such as primitive gongs, bells and bowls, wildlife and environmental recordings, sacred chants, the vibration of human cancerous cells, cleavers, and prepared piano. These four pieces seem to work toward a repetition or ritual between disparate elements so as to transport us, via a magical spell, to dense otherworldly habitats. In fact, the title of the twenty-minute piece Incantare translates as to chant (a magical spell upon), which derives from in, into, unto and cantare, to sing. For the eight-minute piece Carving, there exists a ritualistic image similar to that of Kafkas In the Penal Colony, where an intricate carving device inscribes the Condemned prisoners sentence onto his flesh. The whole affair of Ritual is bound to leave listeners mesmerized by its vividness and bewitched by its intensity."
www.desirepathrecordings.com