Aghnie & Seqta - House of Spleen
These beats are from the earth. House of Spleen, a split cassette on the Crash Symbols label. Both artists with roots in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds. Is it hip hop or a fantastic and dazzling modern rhythmic heartbeat? Each artists pulls in slightly different directions, just enough to create a beautifully balanced sound journey.
Aghnie channels time and worldly location. Influences reaching from ancient rhythms to futuristic technological pulsating hieroglyphics. A plethora of intricate beats, each selection causing the consciousness to loosen it's hold on the everyday. This spectrum of sound is far more wise than the fifteen minutes of one side of one cassette can convey. In this brief amount of time, Aghnie is reminiscent of an artist who performed for seventy years. Unfortunately he passed away last year at age 97, Eddie Kochak.
Seqta gravitates towards hip hop with a little more force. Samples from current culture in step with thick grooves holding massive beats. Hints of rap music from decades past vaulted forward towards times to come. The playful worldliness of the first side of House of Spleen has given way to more serious patterned construction from the inner city. Seqta using street mathematics, sending timed pulses in disguised funk arrays.
Two artists from capitol cities, Tbilisi, Georgia and Berlin, Germany. Over three thousand kilometers apart and connect by the Crash Symbols hub, even farther away. House of Spleen was released in early February in an edition on one hundred. There are currently eleven copies remaining.
Links
Crash Symbols site - bandcamp - facebook
Aghnie channels time and worldly location. Influences reaching from ancient rhythms to futuristic technological pulsating hieroglyphics. A plethora of intricate beats, each selection causing the consciousness to loosen it's hold on the everyday. This spectrum of sound is far more wise than the fifteen minutes of one side of one cassette can convey. In this brief amount of time, Aghnie is reminiscent of an artist who performed for seventy years. Unfortunately he passed away last year at age 97, Eddie Kochak.
Seqta gravitates towards hip hop with a little more force. Samples from current culture in step with thick grooves holding massive beats. Hints of rap music from decades past vaulted forward towards times to come. The playful worldliness of the first side of House of Spleen has given way to more serious patterned construction from the inner city. Seqta using street mathematics, sending timed pulses in disguised funk arrays.
Two artists from capitol cities, Tbilisi, Georgia and Berlin, Germany. Over three thousand kilometers apart and connect by the Crash Symbols hub, even farther away. House of Spleen was released in early February in an edition on one hundred. There are currently eleven copies remaining.
Links
Crash Symbols site - bandcamp - facebook
