Neotantrik

Andy Votel, Sean Demdike and Suzanne Ciani deploy the second in a proposed trilogy of limited vinyl excursions documenting sessions carried out in different configurations and locations last year. Edition of 500 copies, artwork by Andy Votel and Andy Rushton Once again mining a rich source of archival material, tape works and improvised recordings, Andy Votel’s Neotantrik tap deep into the subconscious with a highly visual trip into the furthest reaches of psychedelic ambience. Following on from ‘Blue Amiga’ that came and went in a flash last month, ‘Omnichrom’ is a more brooding, studied affair. Unfurling from a delicate modular opening sequence the A-side flows into a hallucinogenic fever-dream fleshed out with barely-there analogue malfunctions and strings that suddenly throw you into a cacophony of noise in a proper creeped-out, tense fashion. The flipside carries on from this point - pushing you deeper into a Badalamenti-esque soundworld replete with unnerving found sounds and mechanical percussion swung in and out of one of the trippiest Kosmische sessions we’ve heard in a while...