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ARTIST
TITLE
Ritual
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
PATHWAY 001LP PATHWAY 001LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/23/2011

"Ritual is Solo Andata's third full-length album and also the inaugural release for the Buffalo-based label, Desire Path Recordings. This limited edition 12" LP consists of four glorious sonic 'topographies' that are altogether spellbinding, eerie, visceral and energetic. Ritual, similar to Solo Andata's self-titled album on 12k, is fundamentally made up of organic sounds, such as primitive gongs, bells and bowls, wildlife and environmental recordings, sacred chants, the vibration of human cancerous cells, cleavers, and prepared piano. These four pieces seem to work toward a repetition or 'ritual' between disparate elements so as to transport us, via a magical spell, to dense otherworldly habitats. In fact, the title of the twenty-minute piece 'Incantare' translates as 'to chant' (a magical spell upon), which derives from 'in', into, unto and 'cantare', to sing. For the eight-minute piece 'Carving,' there exists a 'ritualistic' image similar to that of Kafka's In the Penal Colony, where an intricate carving device inscribes the Condemned prisoner's sentence onto his flesh. The whole affair of Ritual is bound to leave listeners mesmerized by its vividness and bewitched by its intensity." Mastered by James Plotkin.