Heith - X,wheel / The Liars Tell... 2LP

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Double LP including "X,Wheel" & "The Liars Tell..." + Poster & 2 Bonus Tracks on side D.

Milanese mainstay and Haunter boss Daniele Guerrini bundles his Heith debut with last year's uncanny addendum 'The Liars Tell...', emerging with a full spectrum psychedelic experience. RIYL  Moin, 7038634357, Abul Mogard or Jay Glass Dubs.

This one's a head-scratcher for sure. If y'all caught 'Lo Zoo di Venere' you should have at least a starting point for Guerrini's cosmology-informed musical sludge. It's uncompromising stuff, and if that album grabbed a couple of cupfuls of influence from artists as disparate as Peter Greenaway and Lubomyr Melnyk, this one projects Guerrini's studied precision even further into the abyss. There's no stone left unturned here as he employs digital techniques to tangle doom metal, outsider folk, power electronics and high-minded electro-acoustics, twisting everything into rubbery blasts of blotter-strength arcane sound. At its most subdued, the album sounds as if it's about to pounce from the shadows, like on opening track 'Lettera 4' where Guerrini ropes in Leonardo Rubboli to help color an atmosphere of twisted acoustic folk that's cracked by dissonant glockenspiel chimes. On 'Dero', Guerrini keeps the spooky, melancholy tuned percussion, but adds a chain-rattling electronic rhythm and positioning his sound between the ancient world and our AI-powered reality. An AutoTuned voice rings out over Mellotron choirs, dissolving vocal elements into the aeons - is it a choir, or a solo? Is it religious music or something more privately ritualistic?

Guerrini refuses to let the energy plateaux even for a second, and lurches into razor wire doom metal on 'The hermit', accompanying Sleep-strength booming drums with hyperreal saw waves that play the role of guitars without mimicry. Another synth becomes like a didgeridoo, and offers an illusion of humanity - Guerrini works like a Victorian magician using smoke and mirrors to confuse us but excite our senses. As the track coughs into its third act, the synths almost take on the character of Joey Beltram's 'Mentasm' hoover, desiccating into a swarm of bees before the sputtering conclusion. Guerrini uses the interplay between electronic and acoustic - new and old - to pose most of the philosophical questions on the album; he buries distorted vocals in classical guitar loops on '()()(), 21, wheel of fortune', and twists implacable sounds - horns? percussion? - into plasticated groans on 'a Venus flytrap in the circus lodge'. The picture this reveals is as cinematic as 'Lo Zoo di Venere', and even richer in symbolism.

'Enter Lemuria' uses eerie Goblin-esque synth spirals and ethnographic drum loops to knock against 19th century theories of a sunken continent, and 'Your Element (a spell of equality)' continues Guerrini's use of chimes with its collision of metallic motifs and fractal percussive blurts. Our favorite moment comes with the album's eyeball-unhooking finale, 'Ensemble For Somnambulists', that melts Badalamenti-strength doom jazz into slopped 'n corroded electronix. And we're provided with a breather now in the shape of 'The Liars Tell...', that opens with the muted '"<>*e'. INVERTED VERTIGO' is even more horizontal, stretching Heith's voice over swelling cinematic synths and breathy flute sounds, and on 'medicine boy', we're swept back to the fairytale dimension - it's hollowed-out electro-pop ambience, with an unmistakable Medieval bent.

Heith finishes off with an "orchestroll" version of 'X' highlight 'A Venus Flytrap In The Circus Lodge' that buries the original elements under layers of reverb and expands into an eerie Vangelis x Badalamenti title roll. Pitch black occult biz for those that know.

X,Wheel (DISC 1)

1 - Heith, Leonardo Rubboli - Lettera 4 
2 - Dero
3 - The hermit 
4 - a Venus flytrap in the circus lodge
5 - ()()(), 21, wheel of fortune 
6 - Psychic Mathrooms
7 - Enter Lemuria 
8 - Your Element (a spell of equality)
9 - Stoned Witch
10 - Heith, Leonardo Rubboli - Interlude
11 - Heith (ft. Aase Nielsen) - Ensemble For Somnambulists

The Liars Tell.. (DISC 2)

1 - ‘’<>*e
2 - INVERTED VERTIGO
3 - medicine boy
4 - The circus lodge (Orchestroll Version)

Bonus Tracks:

1 - Dero (Version)
2 - Angel's Hair feat. Tarawangsawels

Music written and produced by Heith
Mixed by Jo Ferliga and Daniele Guerrini
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Design by Nicola Tirabasso
Lettering by Pietro Agostoni