Released last month, a vivid, stirring, experimental debut LP of piano and electronica by the Belgian composer in seven movements, exploring humanity’s relationship with the natural world. It’s inspired by her move to the countryside, and influences include Bernie Krause’s The Orchestra of Animals, and ecofeminist author Starhawk, whose writings dismantle hierarchical relationships between humans and nature. There are some repetitive, musical echoes of Philip Glass, but movement on this Hebborn’s work has greater variety and change, and throughout this release she joined by her chief collaborator Nao Momitani on piano, whose range moves from the serene to the energetic, beautifully shimmering and flittering fingerwork such as on the first and second track to to louder and stormier accompanied by thunderous percussion, on the third. It’s these undulations of pace, such as on the quieter fifth to the gradually, pond rippling and rising sixth (with occasional bird song) and mood that make for transformative, mesmeric listen all the way to last, mysterious, ghostly, alluring final movement. An evocative, truly immersive experience. Out on Western Vinyl.
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