Description

Fabled electronic music visionaries CoH and Abul Mogard form a supranatural alchemy of discrete analogue material and digital energies in their extraordinary debut for Houndstooth.

Stemming from a chance meeting at festival in 2019, CoH and Abul Mogards maiden collaboration focusses stunning new perspectives on the artists respective, fiercely singular and widely adored bodies of work.

Ivan Pavlovs CoH, deeply respected for intensely curious original solo work, and in SoiSong with Psychic TV / Coils Peter Christophersen, here renders a vital, grayscale fluorescence from Guido Zens lushly romantic Buchla 200 and Serge Modular scapes, painted to tape between Stockholms EMS studio and at home, under his Abul Mogard nom de synth.

You read that correctly this is the first Abul Mogard release to be disclosed as the work of Italian artist Guido Zen; the late 90s electronica pioneer known for work with Gamers In Exile and Goodiepal at the turn of the millennium, and more recently in kosmiche unit Brain Machine, plus its parallel club project Vactrol Park, and in trio with NWW dynamo Colin Potter and Alessio Natalizia (Not Waving).

As such, CoH Meets Abul Mogard drops the veil of fictional pretence after a decade of speculation, only to reveal Mogards music at its most metaphysically powerful, its allusive majesty heightened and reified by CoHs computer-based sorcery and allegorically encrypted in the hand-drawn peculiarity of the album artwork, licensed from Nick Blinko (owner of Outer Himalayan Records and co-founder of legendary deathrock catalysts, Rudimentary Peni).

Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Metropolis.