blue twenty-two: Wild Anima
Raw (these recordings aren't even mastered), direct (the tracks were recorded in a single take) and heartfelt, blue twenty-two kicks off with a suite of haunting acapella pieces.
Subtitled Songs From Above, these works see Wild Anima make lovely, alien-feeling ballads that sit perfectly alongside classic outerdimensional explorations of folk music such as Anna Homler's Breadwoman and Ursula K. Le Guin and Todd Barton's Music and Poetry of the Kesh.
The second main movement of blue twenty-two is a 20-minute ode to the moon, breathed into life with the ambient dub producer Natse.
In this piece, Selene, Wild Anima's voice guides us into a minimal and gently evolving soundscape. Listen to it while on the edge of sleep and dream deep.
There's a simplicity to these recordings that is really ingenious and rewarding. In other, fussier hands, these pieces could have ended up feeling pretentious or alienating. Instead, these songs feel focused, passionate. Full of mood.
