Ki Oni - Loxodonta

Faint rhythms growing like vines in the night. Nocturnal sounds, organic and mysterious, fill distant dark spaces. There is so much fantastic life beyond the thresholds of perception. Ki Oni is a conduit, ancient melodies evolved past current existence and extending towards the unknown future. Listeners like tendrils in time, holding aural creations to brief experiences of existence. Familiarity with these tranquil vibrations cause a reflective thought process. Music held held deeply inside, brought to the surface with love and ease.

Loxodonta is ambient music for elephants... Sounds for a slow parade, for tender emotions and for those who instinctively care. A composition relaxing the mind, opening spaces filled with energy from the endless savanna. Ki Oni pulls gently from a continent few can name a single artist, past or present. Even though there is a primal essence to this composition, the finished product reaches forward to distances chronometers have not begun to measure. A beautiful duality of sounds extending in opposite directions. Ki Oni's Loxodonta elicits memories for an album bringing similar serenity, this was Stewart Copeland's The Rhythmatist. Although each composition is very different, the places they draw from and the feelings they create are wonderfully tangled.

Chuck Soo-Hoo is Ki Oni and this is his first release since Elephas in 2015 on the Inner Islands label. There is a connection with Sean Conrad having different production parts in both. Ki Oni has drifted over to Pyramid Blood Recordings for this cassette release. This is a very small run of only fifty editions set out at the end of last year. Copies are currently available from Pyramid Blood Recordings bandcamp page.






Links
Chuck Soo-Hoo - twitter
Pyramid Blood Recordings site  - bandcamp