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Mysticeti / Mhaighdean Mhara
Alliyah Enyo; Angel R; Baptist Goth
Somewhere Between Tapes, 2024
cassette, edition of 120, no digital
An addendum and expansion of sorts to themes explored on the recent ‘Selkie Reflections’, album, Enyo here places that work in a more raw context with an uncanny ethereality. Her vocal performance is startling, arcing from breathy gasps to choral longing and a sort of swirling gregorian chanting that casts spirits in more ambiguous directions.
The A-side’s ‘Mysticeti’ pitches Alliyah in her Baptist Goth duo with Dylan Kerr, whose solo work has been issued by 3XL. Performing facing each other, illuminated with a single beam of light, they project a spellbinding helix of smoke curl glossolalia, layering wordless drones with throat singing and overtones in a sort of transfixing, keening lament.
Rejoining Florian TM Zeisig, ‘Mhaigdean Mhara’ on the b side is a more blissed version of the brief, with Alliyah’s voice a distanced presence within the fathomless reverberations of Florian’s E-bowed bass guitar drones, setting the vocals siren-like, seductively calling from a wide-open, ominously calm-but-deep oceanic space.
Side A performed by Alliyah Enyo & Dylan Kerr
Side B performed by Alliyah Enyo & Florian T M Zeisig
Side A – With use of ‘Lambda II’ – a real-time granular synthesis max for live device by Riccardo Sellan
Text by Boomkat
Design by Musheto Fernandez
Photography by Somewhere Press
Recorded at 90mil, Berlin, 2024, by Joe Summers and Alex Rapp
Mixed by Joe Summers
Mastered by Miles
Distributed by Boomkat