VISIO and Rustan Soderling lead us via a panorama of post-apocalyptic mythology, illuminated by fairy mild.
VISIO is the enigmatic musical moniker of multidisciplinary artist Nicola Tirabasso, a challenge devised whereas on retreat in Sibillini Mountains in Marche, central Italy. Tirabasso describes his newest album, Privateness Angels, as “a liminal zone, a folks magical world sprawling inside some distant nodes of the digital universe.” Crafting a wealthy sonic palette of acoustic instrumentation, intricate sound design and glitched out synthesis, Privateness Angels seems like folks music damaged down and reassembled by algorithm, pitching between the digital and the non secular, dislocated from place and time but evocative of a brand new and distinct imaginative and prescient of the world. Pieced collectively from recordings made in a desecrated sixteenth century church close to the city of Montappone, the document additionally invokes the spirit of of summary painter Osvaldo Licini, who grew up close to to Montappone and who’s esoteric strategy to portray supplies a significant inspiration to the world Tirabasso envisions for Privateness Angels. Imagining the tip of latest civilisation because the means to start once more in a future knowledgeable by the mythological previous, VISIO has created the soundtrack for a world re-enchanted, the place custom, contemporaneity and futurity drift round one another in esoteric order, transferring to a speculative track from a brand new actuality. Following in pursuit of the sunshine of a fairy, artist Rustan Soderling illuminates this mythic place in his response to ‘Youth Grows Without end”, a spotlight from the album, during which he picks via the particles of a sunken world, submerged in fading reminiscence.
Set in the same universe as Russel Hoban’s Eighties science fiction novel Riddley Walker, a stylistic portrait of a brand new Iron Age occurring two thousand years after a nuclear apocalypse, Youth Grows Without end explores the beginning of a brand new mythology, because the world turns into magical once more following the tip of civilisation. “On this ‘new iron age,’ people scavenge iron from the relics of our time,” Tirabasso and Soderling clarify. “Making an attempt to grasp the previous they provide you with a brand new spectacular mythological interpretation of the world. The brand new language encounters the outdated language, a brand new interpretation of the world, the previous, the construction of the universe, and the future of people. The lengthy sequence guided by a fairy mild slowly strikes ahead as an act of remembrance, displaying constellation of relics of the outdated world functioning as ignitors of a brand new cosmology, a brand new narration of actuality, for the folks after the tip of the brand new period attempting to restart on the intersection of expertise, myth-making and magic.” The detritus of incongruous civilisations is strewn throughout the bottom, washed up on this convergence of historical past and mythology, the damaged barrels and upturned pumpkin carts of a fallen agrarian society mendacity shattered subsequent to a discarded jumper, a nonetheless glowing pc monitor, the remnants of home expertise. Drawn as a substitute to the inscribed indicators and everlasting sigils of a brand new fantasy, our fairy information leads us previous these artefacts in direction of a magical new current.
Describing the visible as a “folkloristic reimagining and the re-enchantment of the world round us,” Tirabasso and Soderling perceive Youth Grows Without end in transformative phrases, an exploration of “learn how to re-world our world within the present second of political confusion and ecological emergency, to open areas of prospects, a brand new cosmos the place whispers of the timber, echoes of the ancestors’ tales, the instinct, the spell and the dream are the crucible of the awakening.” Channeling occult vitality from cartomancy and Tarot in using esoteric symbolism – numerology, a wheel dripping with candle wax, a hanged man blooming with flowers – Soderling displays VISIO’s hybrid musical follow of breaking and remaking with gradual semiotic deconstruction, objects lifted from primitive civilisations giving manner first to indicators of the up to date after which to mythic symbols, finally getting into into the fairy’s mild to look of a brand new bodily order, constructed from fragments of the outdated. “From water, to mud into the cornfield and the hanged man on the finish of the journey, brings mild on the finish of the trail, the last word give up embodying new insights, consciousness and enlightenment leaving traces and relics behind,” conclude Tirabasso and Soderling. “We neglect to be able to keep in mind.”
‘Youth Grows Without end’ is taken from Privateness Angels, out now on Haunter Data. For extra details about Nicola Tirabasso and his music as VISIO, you’ll be able to go to his web site and discover him on Instagram.
For extra details about Rustan Soderling and his work, you’ll be able to go to his web site and discover him on Instagram.
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