Luciano Berio - Wasserklavier
Iona Fortune - Kūn 坤
Coil - Triple Sun
Threshold Boys House Choir - Be Happy
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Reincarnation
Iona Fortune - Xū 需
Coil - Going Up
Bernard Xolotl - Cometary Wailing (Valley Plateau)
Deutsche Wertarbeit - Der Grosse Atem
Iona Fortune - Bǐ 比

NTS Show - Iona  Fortune - 6th Feb 2018

In eight parts Iona acts as conduit for extraordinary, invisible and arcane forces. Inspired by the I Ching’s fundamental principles, her music resonates with a visceral and cosmic conception of human essence, infusing minimalist frameworks with finely tempered but lush emotive cues that bring to life the I Ching’s conviction that, according to the Wilhelm translation, 1950 of Hex 16 豫 (yù) “music has the power to ease tension within the heart and to loosen the grip of obscure emotions.” Iona’s music most beautifully manifests this idea in concisely exacting forms and to contemplative ends, creating a slow, serene and harmonious music that coolly commands relaxed states of reception, best for mulling over life, and stuff.

"At once as light as a fleeting thought but permanent as an organism passing on its code, the music conjures mindsets comparable to Coil at their uncanniest, the post-erotica 4th world sensations generated by Jon Hassell, or the dark energy expressed in David Lynch films and their soundtracks. Most crucially Iona achieves this through a synthesis of self-exploration and instrumental actualisation, employing an unusual composition strategy of inner cultivation and empathic performance to divine and realise a spellbinding, penetrative otherness."

In the search for spiritual enlightenment, her music brings an enchanted fourth world sound into a disenchanted twenty-first century.

Iona Fortune

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