why we love this
Khôra taps into a cosmology enveloped in storm clouds swirling around a vortex. The lightning dancing within casts shadows on howling, frenzied creatures. Feverish rhythms where the self dissipates into a stream of some other consciousness.
about the record
Khôra is the medium Matthew Ramolo uses to delve deeply into initiatory world-building by way of sound, image, and lyrical prose. Figuring wholly realized art-myths which distill and rouse the numinous while provoking the visceral and cathartic, Khôra intricately collages studio documents of ritualized instrumental performances, introducing overdubs by transient, heteronymic personae which dismantle stable points of reference in the music and open uncommon planes of consciousness.
'Gestures of Perception' is Khôra’s first double album with a supporting artbook and features a fascinating array of sources subjected to patterned assembly, poetic layering, and the elevations of the heart. Deft handling of modular synthesis is palpably central, while feedback, erhu, keys, flute, contact electronics, guitar, field sounds, and various percussion objects (rattle and frame drums, seed pod sticks, random metal objects, meditation bowls, kalimbas, bells) all serve to provide breathing structures and energetic contours that guide and scaffold inner and outer journeys into the far-near.
Prominent across the record's span is a home-built, solenoid drum machine, responsible for the alive and askew techno-archaic flows and conceived as the album’s "rhythm seed.” The music on Gestures is teeming with organic and alien textures, soaring drones, inter-dimensional noises, and emotionally resonant melodies; balanced on the fringes of exotica and meditative trance, with capacities that untether the listener from the ballast of limited reality.
- 1 - Golden Femur 5:23
- 2 - Flux and Hieroglyph 7:10
- 3 - Rigpa 4:43
- 4 - Hermetic Salt 6:25
- 5 - Ligature Of Mineral 5:02
- 6 - Chöd 3:09
- 7 - In Petrified Light 5:18
- 8 - Pneumatic Magic 5:02
- 9 - Zep Tepi 6:08
- 10 - Sign Of Origin 4:30
- 11 - Echemythia 4:52
- 12 - Liberation Through Hearing 4:19
- 13 - The Empty Room 5:27
- 14 - Axis Mundi 4:24
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- 1 - Golden Femur 5:23
- 2 - Flux and Hieroglyph 7:10
- 3 - Rigpa 4:43
- 4 - Hermetic Salt 6:25
- 5 - Ligature Of Mineral 5:02
- 6 - Chöd 3:09
- 7 - In Petrified Light 5:18
- 8 - Pneumatic Magic 5:02
- 9 - Zep Tepi 6:08
- 10 - Sign Of Origin 4:30
- 11 - Echemythia 4:52
- 12 - Liberation Through Hearing 4:19
- 13 - The Empty Room 5:27
- 14 - Axis Mundi 4:24
why we love this
Khôra taps into a cosmology enveloped in storm clouds swirling around a vortex. The lightning dancing within casts shadows on howling, frenzied creatures. Feverish rhythms where the self dissipates into a stream of some other consciousness.
about the record
Khôra is the medium Matthew Ramolo uses to delve deeply into initiatory world-building by way of sound, image, and lyrical prose. Figuring wholly realized art-myths which distill and rouse the numinous while provoking the visceral and cathartic, Khôra intricately collages studio documents of ritualized instrumental performances, introducing overdubs by transient, heteronymic personae which dismantle stable points of reference in the music and open uncommon planes of consciousness.
'Gestures of Perception' is Khôra’s first double album with a supporting artbook and features a fascinating array of sources subjected to patterned assembly, poetic layering, and the elevations of the heart. Deft handling of modular synthesis is palpably central, while feedback, erhu, keys, flute, contact electronics, guitar, field sounds, and various percussion objects (rattle and frame drums, seed pod sticks, random metal objects, meditation bowls, kalimbas, bells) all serve to provide breathing structures and energetic contours that guide and scaffold inner and outer journeys into the far-near.
Prominent across the record's span is a home-built, solenoid drum machine, responsible for the alive and askew techno-archaic flows and conceived as the album’s "rhythm seed.” The music on Gestures is teeming with organic and alien textures, soaring drones, inter-dimensional noises, and emotionally resonant melodies; balanced on the fringes of exotica and meditative trance, with capacities that untether the listener from the ballast of limited reality.
