Hiro Kone - "Mist to petrifact" (Official Video)

"Mist to petrifact" from Hiro Kone's "Silvercoat the throng" Video by artist Natalia Podgorska. Order on LP/Digital: https://www.daisrecords.com/collectio... More from Hiro Kone: https://found.ee/HiroKone "Mist to petrifact" Video created by: Natalia Podgorska http://nataliapodgorska.com Written and produced by: Nicky Mao Mixed by: Randall Dunn Mastered by: Heba Kadry Cut by: Josh Bonati Silvercoat the throng: New York electronic experimentalist Nicky Mao's 4th full-length, Silvercoat the throng, emerged against the backdrop of lockdown, compelled by an intuitive directive: “resist the urge to fill the space.” Compositionally this translated as a simmering, shadowy energy, veiled but variable, traced in a composite of strings, synthetics, rhythm, and voice. The title alludes to a poetic notion of “possibility, rescued from darkness,” which aptly evokes the shape-shifting, devotional feel of these ambitious and elegant sound designs, crafted in defiance of impermanence, driven by the pursuit of becoming “more and more articulated, differentiated.” Collaborations with travis from ONO, Speaker Music, and Muqata'a further expand the album's lyrical, liminal palette, meshing elements of experimental techno, spoken word, neo-classical, and industrial noise into a fluid, encrypted dialect all its own. Mao speaks of creative strategies of solidification and reification, encounter and transformation, pure being and punctuation – a multitude of sparks, fuses, and forking paths leading across fresh thresholds and twilit terrain. Taken as a whole, Silvercoat the throng captures Hiro Kone at the peak of their powers, alchemizing disruption and decomposition into regenerative interior worlds: “Within the darkness and absence is an opportunity for discovery.” Hiro Kone: Instagram https://found.ee/HiroKoneIG Bandcamp https://found.ee/HiroKoneBC Twitter https://found.ee/HiroKoneTw Facebook https://found.ee/HiroKoneFB Artist's page https://found.ee/DaisHiroKone Dais Records: Instagram https://found.ee/DaisRecordsIG Bandcamp https://found.ee/DaisRecordsBC Twitter https://found.ee/DaisRecordsTw Website https://found.ee/DaisRecords Facebook https://found.ee/DaisRecordsFB Subscribe https://found.ee/DaisRecordsYT