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Catherine Christer HennixBlues Alif Lam MimBack to the record
Textura

“Even the most secular listener likely will be transfixed by the sonic temple Hennix and her partners built in this 2014 performance.”

1 May 2021

In issuing a first-time vinyl edition of 2014's Blues Alif Lam Mim in the Mode of Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis (released on CD in 2016), Brooklyn imprint Blank Forms adds a more recent example of Catherine Christer Hennix's music to the three collections of archival ‘70s recordings it released earlier. In doing so, the label not only does a great service to this creative visionary but to listeners now able to experience the eighty-minute work in its full vinyl glory.

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2 other reviews

The Quietus

“If you surrender to it, it gets about as close to accomplishing Hennix’s goals as any recording ever could: time seems to slow and crab-walk sideways as the piece expands and contracts.”

Textura

“Live At Issue Project Room presents the immersive, eighty-minute work Blues Alif Lam Mim in the mode of Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis (1434 A.H.), which takes no more than a few seconds to place the listener within a mystical Eastern soundworld teeming with shimmering, tambura-like drones and ecstatic vocal undulations.”