‘Hwal’ finds KEDA – the collaborative project of French-based Lorean musician E’Jopung-Ju and renowned French electronic composer Mathias Delplanque) – conjure ambient instrumental pieces from the darker side of the sonic spectrum.
Recorded live and then subject to a year of Delplanque’s picking, unpicking, realignment and adjustment, this is an extremely complex work.
Ominous rumblings and unsettling, elongated drones register in the lower frequencies. Soft ticking only heightens the tension as time grows tight. Creaking, creeping, clattering, shuffling and shadowy, it’s not an easy album to settle into. But then, out of the mist emerge slouching rhythms and loose fusions of African tribal music and jazz, flickers of fractal dub, understated beats that creep under your skin by stealth.
KEDA – Hwal Online
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