Transhuman Harmolodics – Isambard Khroustaliov

‘Transhuman Haromlodics’ takes inspiration from a diverse network of actors and phenomena, allowing them to shape and influence the nature and form of the music in an attempt to imagine a fluid, expressive symbiosis; a small contribution to forging a more engaged and emancipated understanding of how thinking more openly about our culture of music might help us think more openly about other aspects of our reality. 

Tangible Extractions

In 2018, Anne Haaning asked Isambard Khroustaliov to write a soundtrack for her film and installation ‘Tangible Extractions’. Created exclusively using a modular synthesizer and by hacking presets on a Roland D-05 module, the soundtrack ended up being the catalyst for a new direction in his music, one that is expanded on and explored in the album ‘This Is My Private Beach, This Is My Jetsam’ from 2019.

For the forthcoming album ‘Transhuman Harmolodics’, Khroustaliov re-visits the soundtrack, taking another look at it’s nascent forms and sonorities with the hindsight of having developed numerous new strategies and methods of composing with this type of material. The result is the track ‘Longevity Escape Velocity’ that concludes the album, which takes the seed of the soundtrack to ‘Tangible Extractions’ and launches it into a harmonic vortex of suspended animation. It’s trajectory as a composition is completed by feeding the soundtrack’s audio and the MIDI sequences used to make it, along with a flood of NRPN continuous controller information to a Moog One with the aim of having it try to copy it. The end of the piece acts like a strangely distorted mirror, a kind of AI recapitulation of the spark of inspiration that initiated a journey of musical discovery.

‘Transhuman Harmolodics’ arrives in full on the 28th May 2021.

Damo Suzuki, Badun, Snöleoparden – Mejlgade 53

A very special documentation of European musical energy arrives courtesy of this collaboration between artists Damo Suzuki (ex. CAN, Damo Suzuki Network). Badun (Danish jazz-electronica), and Snöleoparden (Danish experimental and world music).

For many years all three artists have been part of the same European music circuits, performing alongside each other on several occasions in different constellations. The result of a shared appreciation and desire to make music together, this album is the crystallisation of their combined musical understanding and vision.

Recorded LIVE in front of an audience at the legendary venue in Mejlgade 53 in Aarhus, the eponymous title of the album celebrates a venue that for two decades has been one of the strongholds in Northern Europe for experimental music.

Scarla O’Horror – Voltage Controlled Parade Music Vol.1

Arrives this Bandcamp Friday 2nd October:

James Allsopp – Tenor Saxophone
Alex Bonney – Trumpet
Isambard Khroustaliov – Electronics
Tim Giles – Drums

Emerging from a the charred remains of their time travelling wheelie bin, Scarla O’Horror are voyagers from a world where Albert Ayler has replaced the house band in David Lynch’s Lost Highway and are now under attack from B-movie aliens controlled by Sun Ra’s Moog and Patrick Gleeson’s ARP 2600.