A Lecture for Hysenis

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Release Date: 2021-12-24

Label: Holy Similaun

A Lecture For Hysenis reimagines and catalyzes the structural elements of the forthcoming album Arcaskathel, a collaborative record with the linguistic sorceress Archipel.
Imagine this single as a cartography of its emotional peaks, a topographic map where the valleys are filled with misty, unsettling melodies, steeply evolving into time-stretched peaks of noise.

This piece evolves similarly to a mycelium, with sequences that propagate like threads in every direction, encapsulating the listener in a spectral cocoon.
Occasionally this web will form superdense nodes of skull-crushing distortion, equally oppressive and heart-wrenching, like the most meaningful abreactions.

This exercise of accumulation and cathartic relief remembers the trimming and curing of a bonsai, slowly but steadily reaching its most distilled form. H—S created a digital Zen garden, where the gravel is constantly morphing like the ever-evolving refractions in impure optical fiber.