PETER KIRN - BELLONA USA
LP
Coming Fall 2017 from Establishment
Enter Bellona - a musical world Inspired by the science fiction novel Dhalgren, set in a mentally unstable vision of post-apocalyptic America ruled by disorientation and disarray. This is techno driving futurism into a realm of forgotten names and fragmentary narratives, wandering astronauts, optic chains. It’s a celebratory dance atop a USA in which broadcast media has broken down, amidst a landscape of entangled multi-way love affairs and gangs of wandering lost figures.
For this circular ruin, as William Gibson called it, Bellona the LP offers cyclic dance riddles - hallucinations, loops, and echoes, steady straight four-on-the-floor kicks holding a groove as textures slip into quicksand. Threads of synth lines drift in and out against multistable polyrhythms, without a sense of beginning or end - a hedonistic celebration of Dhalgren's own circular plotlines. Tricks of perception in rhythm and timbre and pitch twist songs into Escher-like confusion. This is life on the American frontier, post disassociation.
