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Remo Seelands Hollow Body is a suspenseful exploration of the interaction between sound environments and individual perception. It was sparked by an intense physical experience the Swiss artist had during a residency in New York City. quot;The subway became a sort of atonal symphony for me, provoking a full-body experience with the rattling of the overcrowded, airless trains,quot; the Hallow Ground founder explains. quot;However, while the old subway is not exactly beloved by everyone, it also represented for me the melancholic meta-level of the moloch above it.quot; The album, his first under his given name, makes this disparity audible over six tracks in which the visceral and the personal become at once abstract and universal. Based on field recordings from both urban and rural environments, Hollow Body aims to mirror another of Seelands psycho-sonic encounters. quot;In the highlands of Iceland, I noticed my pulse lowering and my breathing decelerating,quot; he says. quot;Just shortly after that, a single insects buzzing seemed so loud to me that I became even more aware of the silence surrounding me.quot; Silence, perception, order, and the curious dialectics of the outside world and the inner workings of the human psyche are the central questions of Hollow Body. Recorded in New York, Reykjavk, and Zurich, Hollow Body draws extensively on field recordings and sees Seeland collaborating with Hallow Ground-affiliated artists Norman Westberg (Swans, guitar on quot;Body Innovationquot; and quot;Hollow Cityquot;) and Reinier van Houdt (Current 93, e-bowed guitar on quot;Hollow Cityquot; and Rhodes organ on quot;Pulse Points Greenquot;), as well as the Swiss-based US-American musician Steve Fors (Deaf At Sea, trombone on quot;Second Comingquot;). The diversity of the source material is mirrored in the stylistic richness Seeland lays out with this LP. From the lush, bass-heavy drones of the opener quot;Body Innovationquot;, to the downbeat-driven quot;Second Comingquot; and, finally, the haunting organ sounds of quot;Night Withinquot;, Hollow Body forms a holistic entity that integrates idiosyncratic compositions into a coherent narrative.
