Originally released in March and sold out in an instant, this EP by Loscil and Fieldhead is being re-released in a second limited run. As the press release explains, it’s not strictly a collaboration, but nor is it exactly a split release, being more of an intersection between the two:
“‘Fury and Hecla’ is a meeting of worlds. Named after a near mid-point between the residences of artists Fieldhead and Loscil, it explores both the familiar and the foreign. Although not a collaboration in the strictest sense, sounds were shared by each artist allowing for a sort of aural infusion between the compositions. The results are a series of fragments and quotes that appear and reappear - sometimes in ghostly form - throughout each artist’s tracks.’”
The two artists – who deliver alternate tracks, with odd tracks by Loscil and even tracks by Fieldhead – produce music in divergent and distinctive yet complimentary styles, with Fieldhead’s delicate ambient works being light in tone and texture, but not without dynamics as an underlying tension eddies subtly beneath the surface.
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To focus on the tracks which give the release its title and which serve to bookend the EP, Loscil’s ‘Fury’ doesn’t pour the kind of molten noise you might associate with the emotion, but instead builds on a long, dense drone. Although not an overtly linear composition, the effect is cumulative, as the sounds hover and resonate to create a heavy atmosphere analogous to the humidity of a developing storm about to break.
Fieldhead’s ‘Hecla’ is very much a contrasting piece that contrasts with the darkness of ‘Fury’, the sonic equivalent of the sun breaking through the clouds as strings shimmer and tremble, a magnificently subtle and organic work.
Fury and Hecla Online
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