*300 copies limited edition* “Avàvâgo Zamran!” marks a new ritual transmission under the name Arrokoth, a project initiated by Guillaume Cazalet (Neptunian Maximalism, Zaäar, Sol Kia...) as an ongoing exploration of musical primitivism, liminality, and distant cultural imaginaries. Conceived as a vessel rather than a fixed ensemble, Arrokoth brings together collaborative works with Dimitar Dimitrov (Corpus Diavolis, Antelogos, Haiku Funeral) and John McKusick (Three Dragon Alley), resulting in a body of sound that functions as both ritual artifact and performative invocation.
The compositions unfold as exotic neo-shamanic objects, situated at the crossroads of trance, incantation, and ceremonial gesture. The collaboration between John McKusick and Guillaume Cazalet, alongside Cazalet’s solo works, gives rise to syncretic pieces drawing from a wide arc of influences, from Tibetan and Indian ritual traditions to Moroccan and Indonesian sonic cultures. These works are structured as hypnotic trances, where repetition, texture, and resonance dissolve linear listening in favor of altered states.
The meeting between Dimitar Dimitrov and Guillaume Cazalet takes a more explicitly magical form. Their collaboration centers on the incantation of the 8th Enochian Key, reinterpreted through a sonic language inspired by the Bön tradition, transforming spoken formula into a charged, ceremonial act. The project takes its name from Arrokoth, a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper Belt. Visited by NASA’s New Horizons probe on January 1, 2019, Arrokoth is the most distant and most primitive object in the Solar System ever explored by a spacecraft. Its name honors the Powhatan people, indigenous to the Tidewater region of present-day Virginia and Maryland, and reflects a return to origins, both cosmic and terrestrial.
Within this framework, music is approached as a performative and operative act. Sound becomes magical discourse, a tool through which intention is shaped and projected. These recordings may accompany ritual practice, or stand as documentation of the ritual itself, traces of an action that has already taken place.
