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Arche​-​Fossil

by Wind Atlas

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1.
Hunger 04:32
I have been to your house You have fed me You have given me food But you have not satisfied my hunger I always want one more piece You look at me with pity But no, I don't know how to explain to you That you cannot satisfy my hunger I'm not an ascetic, like you
2.
I think of those spaces that don’t work Those spaces that nobody remembers And I think if somebody kissed Bit Looked Screamed There That space would make sense Doorways And arches And lovely chairs And hallways And inner spaces of the house And gallerys And nooks And corners And couches And reading nooks where nobody reads And under the bed And under the water And over the water And between the abyss And inside a book And inside a metaphor And inside a body An edible body And inside the bread And inside my mouth And inside of me And in your mouth In black bread And on the Moon On the Moon
3.
Dos Ojos 04:48
En la luz de tus dos ojos Yo vi mi sino Se cerraron tus dos ojos Perdí el camino Te fuiste en silencio Como el agua de los ríos
4.
That Mouth 04:52
I drink from your mouth That mouth I’m gonna eat it
5.
Todos los nombres van a morir a ti No puedo decirlo
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Nada 03:40
Tú cantas para el agua No te escucho Pero sigues cantando Ya nadie escucha nada Ni tú misma, que cantas para el agua Cantas desinteresadamente Para que nadie te escuche Eres el agua de mis ojos Corres como el agua de mis ojos Cuando lloro cantas Estás disolviéndote Estás diciendo las palabras para nadie y para nada Te estás deformando Estás llena de agua Es tu forma de morir Brotar como una fuente Correr como un líquido Quiero besarte Para que corras dentro de mí Estás aguada Ya te siento en mi boca Estás goteando Eres un punto inmóvil que gotea en mi boca
8.
I don’t want anything more than to be on your body Like a lizard, in the sun, in days of sadness And your hand is looking for me Through the skin of your belly (To J. A. V.)
9.
What are you doing hiding in that corner? Why are you dressed in black? Why are you holding that? Are you sure you want to come? Do you have a house? Do you have something like a voice? Do you need a friend? You’re all dressed in cotton and I would not like to get you dirty but you invited me to spend the night, so… I want to kiss you and lick you I want you to eat apricots from my mouth I’m not sure what to say either but I want to tell you I like your ankles and your face I love your face Go home go home Do you have a house? I’m very sleepy and I don’t know what to say to you When you talk without knowing what to say

about

Arche-Fossil (Cønjuntø Vacíø, 2020) is Wind Atlas’ fourth record, which sees the band pushing the boundaries of their own music as genres such as post-industrial electronics, ambient, noise and popular mediterranean music merge, bringing to life a hybrid and intense album.

The gestation process of Arche-Fossil began even before the publication of An Edible Body (2018). With that record, the band changed members and ventured into more electronic territories by using drum machines and synths that still fit their ritual post-punk sound. After two years spent working on this new record, these electronic landscapes have taken over their music.

Arche-Fossil was almost entirely recorded by themselves at their home studio and finished at Maik Mayer’s recording studio with Sergio Pérez. It collects the songs that represent the band’s work over the last two years and that best reflect the issues that weave the whole record regarding the relationship between human beings and reality. Is it possible to know an uninterpretable reality? What is knowing? How does the relationship between human beings and reality work? These questions inform a series of songs that produce a voice that continuously muses on what it perceives and the ways in which it does.

Hunger opens the record amidst a thunder of abstract sounds and a viscous bass loop. By using samples from M. E. S. H.’s “Optimate”, which forms the noisy basis of the song, Hunger approaches more experimental electronic terrains. This song revolves not only around an insatiable and uninhibited hunger for finding new ways of saying and being in the world, but also around an enormous emptiness.

The monumental track Where Nothing Happens explores empty spaces and everything that happens within them when something–a step, a voice, an object–interrupts their eternal being, thus generating new meanings between these spaces and that which suddenly inhabits them.

In Dos Ojos, the band continues navigating electronic landscapes, this time through Spanish traditional and oral literature. They follow this path further in Esta Despedida, where the vocals use one single sentence to unsay: “Todos los nombres van a morir a ti.” (“You are where all names go to die”) From then onwards, the vocals employ a form of glossolalia as a tool to continue uttering after the death of meaning that they have previously announced. Likewise, Days of Sadness, a free adaptation of Galician poet José Ángel Valente’s poem “Latitud”, pays homage to the language of the unsaid, which has heavily influenced Wind Atlas’ discourse over the years.

That Mouth emerges as a dramatic effect when the record has managed to hypnotize us. Trance and an industrial sound meet amidst MS20 roars and a beat going over 140bpm. Metallic blows and the sound of chains burst in, creating rhythmic patterns over a bass drum that pushes forward.

The eeriest and most beautiful moments appear on the record’s B-side. Such moments come to life in tracks like Oceanic Sexuality or the closer Do You Have a House?, along with the experimental Nada, in which, by only utilizing noise, Wind Atlas create a sonic collage poem that draws from power-electronics. Here, some of the band’s recurring themes reemerge: emptiness, water, and the body.

In Arche-Fossil, Wind Atlas continue exploring some of the paths they began mapping with their previous record. This time, however, they manage to approach the heterogeneous in a much more certain and lucid manner, without ever stopping wondering about their own voice.

credits

released March 20, 2020

Andrea P. Latorre: vocals
Sergi Algiz: electronics and guitar
Raúl Q. de Orte: Synths
Raul Pérez: drums

Recorded by the band and final recordings at Maik Maier Studios (Barcelona) by Sergio Pérez. Mixed by Sergio Pérez and mastered by Stephen Quinn at Analogue Heart (UK). Art photos by Àlex Sardà. Artwork by David M. Romero.

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