Burial Rituals of Ilé-Ifẹ̀ by Mirt
Tomek Mirt has been one of these skilful artists in a broader sense since he is both instrument builder, graphic artist and a musician that has used a very dense contents to open to most of these problems that the escapism of electronic music doesn't touch at all.
He, in person, conjured his own dystopian sound based on analogue modular systems and instruments used in the process. On the newest album, Hubert Zemler helped him with drum work, beautifully playing metalophones.
Another important aspect of his work is field recording - a process that helps him to reset and get out of the intellectual role of a composer, helping more with the process of finding new aspects of sonic landscape that can be transposed to his electronic process. "Burial Rituals" bring those two together into only seemingly escapist colourful tropical bird but sets a notion of a cruel joke when you consider how much has been lost through colonial policies of the modern world and how much culturally has been transformed into new qualities that accept and embrace political and cultural problems merging technology and ideas into one.
A misanthrope's view on the problems that disappear from public view, misguided introductions to cultures that developed at their own pace into something that never lacked complexity and richness over a white man's burden. And new problems that don't wither but not addressed build a lie of what's real and complex and what's narrowed into a consumable contents.
An important album for modern times...private and intimate at the same time...
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