WL//WH Premiere DEATH HAGS
Death Hags, the alias of Los Angeles-born musician, songwriter and producer Lola G, who builds earthy metaphysical and futuristic electronic realms inspired by two of the most evocative trailblazer artists of our time, Brian Eno and David Lynch, returns with an Official Video for “Amanita IIIII”, the second track on last June’s full-length LP, “BIG GREY SUN #5 [extended version]”, the fifth volume of a seven album project, WL//WH is pleased to premiere.
Following a dog bite over the winter solstice, three days of hallucinations gave birth to “BIG GREY SUN”. Part grimoire, part hermit dream, “BIG GREY SUN” is a seven-part journey centered around the unknown and the various archetypes of transformation – the journey through the underworld, the dark night of the soul, the alchemical process of transforming the self. Dreamy, largely instrumental, Volume #5 echoes the liminal space between sleep and consciousness, the void beyond reality, where we are no longer who we were, but not yet who we will be.
The multimedia artist crafts a genre-bending world of dreamy noir pop, dark ambient, and experimental electronic music that some fans have called “Future Sound of Dystopian Romance”. Her music has been featured in films by Christophe Honore and Steven Soderbergh, and she recently scored the movie “Mirror Moves”.
Named after the most famous and most poisonous mushroom in the world, which has been used as a vision quest for centuries, “Amanita IIIII” is a surreal, psychedelic finger poking through the fabric of reality, echoing the pain of transformation and the power of survival — What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
Asserting it’s time to start survival, “Amanita IIIII”, sound-wise, unfolds dub-inflected tactile and bubbling slow-paced drum patterns that skip and sway across sneakingly humming bass pulses, cloaked in vibrant layers of tensile reverb and hypnotic flare, to permeate with cold and muffled phantasmagoric dimensions, beautiful, dreamy female vocals, breathily aching, with the gentle echoing ebb and flow of cathartic magnetism.
Lola G creates her own visuals, mixing experimental film with digital manipulation and found footage in the style of French New Wave director Chris Marker.
The prismatic video blends surreal footage of Death Hags standing in front of a window that looks out over the city at night with public domain footage from the documentaries “Growing Things” and “Development of a Salamander”. Symbolically, the visuals evoke the growth and integration mentioned in the lyrics by syncing mirror, kaleidoscopic, and geometric imagery with the chill, alert curiousness of the soundtrack.
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