Labyrinth [CD]

Jesse Kanda is a visual artist and musician widely known for his modern gothic surrealist art, especially his work with Bjˆrk, Arca, and FKA twigs, and in recent years for his own musical output as Doon Kanda. At Hyperdub, we are very excited by his transition into music; if there were a sound to his beautiful, otherworldly art, this is it in its pure form.
Labyrinth is his debut album, comprised of 13 pieces of new music, and 10 artworks. It is a dreamlike, exhilarating listen from start to finish, covering emotional ground from hell to heaven. It was created between summer 2018 and spring 2019 in London and Ontario.
His two previous EPs 'Heart' (2017) and 'Luna' (2018) focused on melody across a spectrum of emotion, and like his visual work often metamorphosed pain into beauty. 'Labyrinth' chronicles a period of loss, in ecstatic fantasy.
Stylistically, much of the album is in 3/4 time signature in rhythms reminiscent of waltz, allowing Kanda to create movement through melody. This idiosyncratic gothic style was hinted at in his first EP, and is in full bloom here. It is also a proposition of a new form of club music; one can imagine venues transformed into an alien world, where the music moves the crowd in previously unknown ways. The album has a narrative arc of building chaos, peaking with Mino, then a resolve of clarity at Bunny. Jesse hopes listeners experience Labyrinth in its presented order, while maybe flipping through the artwork in the accompanying 10 page insert booklet.

01. Polycephaly 02. Dio 03. Gut 04. Enigma 05. Wing 06. Nastasya 07. Pieridae 08. Mino 09. Search 10. Bunny 11. Garnet 12. Forgive 13. Entrance

• Released: 11/29/19
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**
• Format Detail: CD
• Format: CD
• Genre: Dance & Electronic