Two sample tracks from the extraordinary voice of the Japanese singer taken from her most recent album, Aura, out on Erased Tapes, featuring rich vocal harmonies, often unaccompanied, and layered by loop pedals. Angelus Novus, ‘New Angel’ in Latin, is named after a monoprint by the artist Paul Klee, which appears in the German philosopher Walter Benjamin’s essay Angel of History.
Hatis Noit explains: "When I wrote this song, I remembered this image of an angel flying against the rough winds of history, which resonated very strongly with me in regards to both personal and social struggles. The song has a very intimate, introverted outro as I wanted it to end with a place of healing.
The video is directed by Yuma Kishi and his A.I, Yuma creates works in which the digital intelligence and the analogue body are always placed in a parallel relationship. Hatis Noit wanted to explore borderlines and fluidity after being confronted with the self-alienated sensation she feels as a Japanese individual living in the UK. Sometimes being mistaken for Chinese she wondered ‘what makes us different?’ or ‘Is there any borderline?’. Elaborating, she explains: “Sometimes the answer is ‘yes', we are different and unique, but then also I found that sometimes we have something in common, or sometimes we even feel we are connected through our genes somehow... With this video, I wanted to show how apparent yet fluid this borderline is — through the united and mutated image of different cast by Yuma's artificial intelligence without prejudice, and ask further: 'where does one end and another begin?’”
Jomon is an early Mesolithic-type culture in Japan ( c. 10,000–300 BC), preceding the Yayoi period. It is characterised by pottery decorated with a distinctive cord pattern.
To explore more of Hatis Noit’s music, the rest of the album is also in the embedded links below, as well as more of her work and a live performance.
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