Heith - X, wheel
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 119 
Format: LP / DL
Release Date: 07 October 2022
Purchase: https://pan.lnk.to/Xwheel

Heith’s devout interest in the notion of reality started long before he recorded his latest album. The Italian musician, producer and artist probed the spiritual aspects of sound and its cosmogonic potential already in his previous works released on his own Haunter Records label.
Exploring the textures of consciousness through research into the ritual animism, he kept an omnivorous and universalist approach to cultural and sonic influence. This is central to X, wheel, Heith’s debut album and first release on PAN. It’s a deep dive into his creative and spiritual practice, one where art and life are inextricable.

Written and recorded across different studios in Milan, Rome and Florence between March, 2019, and January, 2020, eleven tracks cycle through a world of stylistic references—from psychedelia, psytrance and freak folk to stoner metal, noise and early electronic music—while remaining firmly a part of a singular vision.

Album opener “Letter 4” staggers along collaborator Leonardo Rubboli’s winding guitar melody, while second track “Dero” cycles into layers of assorted sine wave lines and tonal systems outside of the Western diatonic scales. X, wheel sits calmly at the centre of its own vortex of dissonance and diversity, moving through a spectrum of ideas, moods, and emotional states with uncanny ease. A glimpse of contributor Jesse Osborne- Lanthier’s synth melody briefly surfaces from a cacophonous flood of reverb and distortion on “Stoned Witch”. Aase Nielsen’s lonely saxophone wanders around the nostalgic hypnagogic noir of “Ensemble For Somnambulists”.

Heith draws together an array of philosophies and fictions together into a sonic tableau that exists outside of linear time. As the titular wheel spins, it does not bring about repetition, rather constant change and movement, spiralling into infinity.

The hypnotic nature of the release is translated in the album’s liner notes. It’s a collage of sorts, constructed from Heith’s own diary entries using the non-phonetic alphabet and linguistic experiment called “Angel’s Hair” developed with artist Pietro Agostoni. Together with contributions from ZU drummer Jacopo Battaglia and didgeridoo player Fabio Goldaniga, X, wheel is an exercise in creating new forms of meaning through sound, turning spectral vibration into conscious awareness.

Heith ft. Aase Nielsen - Ensemble For Somnambulists (PAN 119)

Following the events of "Annihilation", xato presents the second part of his personal odyssey, "Irrational Fear".

"Irrational Fear" explores the dark self with intense drone recordings being the main sound focus of the project, surrounded by field-recording manipulations and deeply evolving textures.

As the project's tracks aged between 2020 and 2022, it never felt like the right time to release the project. However things changed when the reasons behind the tracks were revamped in the more recent years.

Artwork by v.3lo
Written, Mixed & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis
Vocals on "The Caretaker" by Nick Zhu.

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Adaptations - EP

Adaptation #2 - Enjoindre (Allégorie relative à la venimosité de l'herbe) features samples from:
* (parodie) Raiponce en 3 minutes, by Lilou Gauthier - uploaded by Fâcheux Faucheux on YouTube (private video) [Spoken Words]
* Frans leren #Le verbe # enjoindre, by Frans Leren - uploaded by Frans Leren / Franse Les on YouTube [Spoken Words]
* Les fruits cuits, by Dranem, Roger Guttinguer & Paul Briollet on YouTube [Spoken Words]
* Regret / Marche nuptiale, by Antoine Bouscatel on YouTube [Spoken Words]
* Noël De Requista, by Chorale de la Solidarité Aveyronnaise [Vocals]
* Jibberish Jungle ~ The Darktoon Chase, by Christophe Héral & Billy Martin [Hook]
* Black Bag, by Carl Sherlock Holmes - uploaded by magrosi65 [Noise]
* Kashmere, by Kashmere Stage Band [Drums]
* Lost In The K-Hole, by The Chemical Brothers [Drums]
* Around the Fur, by Deftones [Drums]
* Zone Out (from Break Beats), by Myor [Drums] {Original Sample not found}
* Fresh 7 (from Break Beats), by Myor [Drums] {Original Sample not found}
* B-Boy 162 (from Jungle Warfare Vol. 1), by Zero-G [Drums] {Original Sample from Movement (feat. Sweet Pea), by S.L. Troopers}
* King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown, by King Tubby [Drums]
* On a Roll (from Jungle Warfare Vol. 1), by Zero-G [Drums] {Original Sample not found}
* Amen, Brother, by The Winstons [Drums]

Adaptation #2 - Enjoindre (Allégorie relative à la venimosité de l'herbe)

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original soundtrack plus extra outtake stuff i made for 4spells (2024), a film by tom rogers - link here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HD6lmN_yXE

cover artwork by tom rogers (clip from 4spells)

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Blues Alif Lam Mim In the Mode Of Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis is a new composition from Catherine Christer Hennix's expanded just-intonation ensemble, the Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage. The expanded ensemble includes vocalists Imam Ahmet Muhsin Tüzer, Amir Elsaffan and Amirtha Kidambi, an expanded brass section with the addition of Paul Schwingesnschlögl and Elena Kakaliagou, and the additon of Marcus Pal and Stefan Tiedje on electronics. This new piece was recorded live at the Issue Project Room and was mastered by Dubplates + Mastering in Berlin. 
Live At Issue Project Room is packaged in a deluxe letterpressed sleeve and is being issued at the same time as Central Palace Music from 100 Model Subjects For Hegikan Roku, a recording of Hennix's ensemble from 1976, also on Important.

Catherine Christer Hennix / Chora(s)an Time-Court Mirage - Live At ISSUE Project Room -

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