Hav is the other half of Whitney Johnsons musical dichotomy to the one revealed on Stena, the album she is releasing simultaneously in her other guise as Matchess. Hav is in search of the same cosmic tones that Sun Ra used for mental therapy, trying to heal our ailing consciousness. Only she has gone to Cyprus and Greece to find her therapeutic nirvana, which is certainly better than disrupting yourself.
The album opens with Agora a tonal shifting spirograph of sounds bleating into the darkness, pulsars bending notes, shape shifting, meeting in the forum to discuss all those brilliant bootlegs of concerts recorded at the Agora in Cleveland, Patti Smith is still my fave of those. But this is closer to Electronic Audio Research's Koner Experiments in timbre and application.
Dafni is calming waves of syncretic pulsations, secreting magick spells within the magical transformational frequencies, hallucinatory triggers troubling your mind, disturbance flowing away.
Vari knows that repetition is the core of life, but that it must always mutate, slowly evolving, growing into unseen spaces, calm reflections deepened, medicine begins to work, embracing beatific senescence.
Kouklia is the ancient vibrations of Paphos, transformed into tonal waves seeping cleansing unity, still hoping to re-unite those that seek permanent separation, neophytes tracing ancient lines of communication through sounds synced to the roots.
Amathounta shallow sounds of the ruins of Atlantis, bounced off columns buried in the ocean for thousands of years, mythical echoes of fish living in the ancient city, like it was always home to them.
The album closes with Kition a dark sonorous search for Zeno's life on the beach, with a didactically opposite approach to the one Radio Birdman took to this quest, the sonar pulsations seek out the structures, trying to heal through recreating the ancient lifestyle of Kition.
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