Our end of October Mixtape comes from Bedroom community’s Heliocrysum.
With a name that evokes the Latin for sunflower but also a healing tincture, the LA-based composer/sound designer duo have just recently presented their visceral, deep and exploratory debut album "We Become Mist". Reminiscence of their name too, their sound blends overlaid orchestration and distorted lightness, simplicity washed with emotional intensity, the remembered dreams of far-off, science-fictive discoveries.
Heliochrysum is Michael Deragon and Daniel Lea in which collaboration becomes a sculpted journey into new aural and imaginative cosmology. "We Become Mist" uses analogue and digital processes to mine the depths of industrial and science fictional, psychedelic soundscapes, often cinematic in tone and texture. The album has been mixed by minimal ambient beast Ben Frost and mastered by Valgeir Sigurdsson. Within the melding of the analogue and digital, there was another element mixed: the album is tinged with psilocybin technology. As a listener, you can hear as you move through a psychedelic passage, like out of a state of lockdown into one of alien otherworldliness. Something that also seems to be tingeing the electronic music scenes throughout. Especially on the American west coast.
For this mix the duo have selected a series of tracks filled with the atmospheres and textures they love and are inspired by and truly find moving: "there is something like an angelic quality or a spiritual depth to each of the tracks that we are always in search of. Heliochrysum for us is about layers, simple melodies and atmospheres moving towards an immersive experience that take the listener and us somewhere new, unknown and challenging. We also included some things we have made as Heliochrysum as well as other projects that we have been a part of because for us they are all one world and part of this journey".
A blissful trip of warm sounds to fill our readers with autumnal feelings .
Tracklist:
01. ALVA NOTO - XERROX SORA 1
02. SILVER MOUNT ZION - 13 ANGELS STANDING GUARD ROUND THE SIDE OF YOUR BED
03. MY BLOODY VALENTINE - TO HERE KNOWS WHEN
04. STEVE MOORE - THERE’S NO NEGOTIATING
05. HELIOCHRYSUM - HIVEMIND REMIX
06. L A N D - TRANSITION
07. M. DERAGON - A RADIANT SLEEP SHINE
08. CLINT MANSELL - WAVES CRASHING ON DISTORT SHORES OF TIME
09. HELIOCHRYSUM - LENS NOIR PART 2
10. HOWARD SHORE - MANSFIELD CRASH
11. BURIAL - NIGHTBUS
12. ALESSANDRO CORTINI - SCAPPA
13. HELIOCHRYSUM - ALIENA
