The 3rd and last instalment of a video trilogy accompanying the Haunter Records creator’s brand-new album for PAN, X, wheel, sees 3 glowing figures communing with the shadowy spirits of untamed nature in an detailed plant language.
On X, wheel, the brand-new album from artist and Haunter Records creator Heith, the really texture of human awareness is rendered as both flexible and ambiguous, something that shifts and deforms as a outcome of the artist’s continued expedition of mystical concepts of truth. His veryfirst album for PAN manifests a practice that draws on both the spiritual and the creative, folding in components of psychedelia, psytrance, freak folk, stoner metal, severe sound and early electronic music into a particular sonic language, influenced in equivalent parts by biological kinds of plant interaction and the reasoning of dreams. This focus on option techniques of interaction extends out of phonetic expression and into speculative engraving with Angel’s Hair, an alphabet of vegetal glyphs and mycological characters designed by Heith in partnership with the visual artist Pietro Agostoni. The alphabet shares its name with the folkloric compound siliceous cotton, a sticky gelatinous compound of unidentified origin, declared by followers and zealots to be produced throughout UFO visitations and incredible symptoms of the Virgin Mary, respectively. This odd language offers one course into the world of X, wheel, and the horrible thick community of one of the album’s most disturbing tracks, ‘A Venus Flytrap in the circus lodge.’
Following 3 bioluminescent figures moving around a shadowy dreamscape, ‘A Venus Flytrap in the circus lodge’ embodies a world in which the natural world produces a violent, predatory reaction, a nod to the titular meat-eating plant. Probing the interaction inbetween this deadly undertone, Venus as the Roman god of love and appeal and as one of the closest worlds to earth, Heith conjures a world in which liminal truths are litup – the difficult distance of the world stimulating an unknowable area, the love divinebeing gesturing towards brand-new modes of faith. The citizens of the world of ‘A Venus Flytrap in the circus lodge’ emit an inner glow, yet this light does not travel upwards, transcendent of physical flesh, however rather appears of the neglected earth, radiant spores that recommend these figures haveactually sprung up from the really soil and sand over which they now tread. Like the Angel’s Hair alphabet, these beings take on a physical kind familiar yet unknowable to us, moulded in the shapes of bodies, yet smeared with a life-giving compound of a various nature, the natural world taking back control of its residents with ghostly guardians, stalking their birthplace rising with all the pledge of violence of the Venus Flytrap.
A Venus Flytrap in the circus lodge follows Your Element (a spell of equality) and Dero as the 3rd part of a video trilogy accompanying X, wheel. In Your Element, ancient routine practice and cursive script are litup by laser light, a modern excavation of spiritual custom and misconception. In Dero, unusual scrolling visuals provide us peeks of dystopian city environments, occult graffiti and carnival enjoyable home images recommending a changed environment of impression and deceit. In the 3rd and last part, Heith reaches past the summoning event and the damaging techniques, diving muchdeeper into a darker, more natural area. The citizens of A Venus Flytrap in the circus lodge move with unknowable effectiveness, a secret just enhanced by the concluding hairs of Angel’s Hair, a brand-new visual language for brand-new world of presence. Experienced as a hazy cloud of shadow and loam, the dream reaches back into the waking world, casting strange shadows on the limits inbetween flesh and earth.
‘A Venus Flytrap in the circus lodge’ is taken from X, wheel, which is out now on PAN. For more details about Heith you can discover him on Instagram and at Haunter Records.
‘A Venus Flytrap in the circus lodge’ Credits:
Video – Heith & Nicola Tirabasso
Camera – Nicola Tirabasso
Assistant – Leone Ciocchetti
Lettering – Pietro Agostoni
3D – DECLINO (@andrea.declino & @gvn908)
Actors – Alison Bizzi @ultracreature, Clara Grilanda, Thomas Venezia
Make Up – Bruno Fontana
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