This one got me good. It’s all slow moving sounds, changing, morphing, yet staying the same, finding new purpose within different sonic stages.

The first movement is prayer-like, with a stable tone droning at its core, as subtle tones blossom above and below it creating a beautifully full space. Versus the first’s meditative beauty, the second movement possesses a slow eerie aggression to it that permeates all of the various parts of its composition. It sternly refuses to move from its tonal position. The final movement is the most physical of them all. It is tangible where the others were ethereal and expansive where the others are more bodied. Altogether it moves graciously and leaves us somewhere different than we began.

https://psychicliberation.bandcamp.com/album/vitiate

Jon K. Winter 2024