Taken from the album TEKHENU Retold (TEKHENU remix album)
The Allegorist releases a 10-track LP of remixes of her celebrated fifth studio release
Towering like the ancient Egyptian monoliths that gave the project its name, TEKHENU Retold is a deep, resonating collection of The Allegorists sonic mythology, remixed. The Hungarian-born, Berlin-based artists fifth studio album sees diverse reimaginings from some of the scenes most innovative producers. Building on the passion of The Allegorist for storytelling, this remix album expands her narrative into a shared, open history.
The Allegorist is a prolific polyglot with her own unmistakable alchemic voice; here as always, shes a DIY powerhouse, as TEKHENU reworked will feature self-produced covers and animations for every track, as Anna is her own producer, performer, engineer, and creative director. But shes proven just as open to the individual visions of her collaborators. Even the album image itself she has turned over to each remixer. Likening it to a coloring book, she says, everybody can paint their character's journey the color they like. Thats a fitting metaphor for the remixes themselves.
As the artist tells it:
TEKHENU is an allegory for meaning, and purpose, something that we are all bound to and that connects us all. We have our own truth. TEKHENU is something entirely different for all of us and at the same time, also just the same. In the old days, stories were passed by word of mouth - told and retold again. I think there is a lot of beauty in diverse narratives. I thought it would be great to retell the chapters of the tale TEKHENU from 10 different perspectives by 10 different artists. The Allegorist
Track after track, this is a production tour-de-force. Sebastian Lee Philipps band Die Wilde Jagd delivers a haunting, ritualistic opening and chilling harmonies in Whispers of the Wind, an instant single hit. Swedens Sarah Asspring (aka El Perro del Mar) with collaborator/partner Jacob Haage shaped Born in the River into a distorted hypnotic incantation.
Subheims take on Trees of Peace takes a step back into chilled-out trip-hop, mixed in equal parts with dense cinematic layers of strings and pads, interspersed with crackle-filled pauses, as if catching its breath. Inner Dialogue brings the sumptuous colors of Annas voice to a sun-up pulsing kick rhythm from Drum and Lace, the trip-hop project from renowned Italian composer Sofia Hultquist. Scotland-based English musician Ben Chatwin, sought-after as a composer globally with outings on Village Green, Denovali and others, finds moments of transcendence in a reserved, achingly reflective sojourn Through The Forest. Istanbul-Berlin artist Ah! Kosmos (Basak Gunak) is a perfect foil to The Allegorists expansive, theatrical imagination, expanding Howling with the Wolf to an epic, mainstage musical journey and canyon-scale bass.
In clouds of fuzzy, ligneous strata of timbre, The Invisible blossoms as an invocation, thanks to German composer Hannes Kretzer. Berlin up-and-comer Midori Hirano, with outings recently on raster and appearances from L.E.V. to CTM to Boiler Room, returns to her childhood instrument of the piano in her rework of Dreams at Dawn to create a heart-wrenching rework, evoking a full dramaturgy in this gorgeous track. On The Allegorists voice gets stretched into endless shifting hues by iconic 90s Swedish dark ambient project Desiderii Marginis. A lesser compilation could easily end there, but finally, we are treated to the beguiling, stuttering vocals and undulating crossing rhythms of Barefoot by Scanner. That turns to impactful, edgy electronic beats - making us ready to travel through TEKHENU all over again.
The Allegorist releases a 10-track LP of remixes of her celebrated fifth studio release
Towering like the ancient Egyptian monoliths that gave the project its name, TEKHENU Retold is a deep, resonating collection of The Allegorists sonic mythology, remixed. The Hungarian-born, Berlin-based artists fifth studio album sees diverse reimaginings from some of the scenes most innovative producers. Building on the passion of The Allegorist for storytelling, this remix album expands her narrative into a shared, open history.
The Allegorist is a prolific polyglot with her own unmistakable alchemic voice; here as always, shes a DIY powerhouse, as TEKHENU reworked will feature self-produced covers and animations for every track, as Anna is her own producer, performer, engineer, and creative director. But shes proven just as open to the individual visions of her collaborators. Even the album image itself she has turned over to each remixer. Likening it to a coloring book, she says, everybody can paint their character's journey the color they like. Thats a fitting metaphor for the remixes themselves.
As the artist tells it:
TEKHENU is an allegory for meaning, and purpose, something that we are all bound to and that connects us all. We have our own truth. TEKHENU is something entirely different for all of us and at the same time, also just the same. In the old days, stories were passed by word of mouth - told and retold again. I think there is a lot of beauty in diverse narratives. I thought it would be great to retell the chapters of the tale TEKHENU from 10 different perspectives by 10 different artists. The Allegorist
Track after track, this is a production tour-de-force. Sebastian Lee Philipps band Die Wilde Jagd delivers a haunting, ritualistic opening and chilling harmonies in Whispers of the Wind, an instant single hit. Swedens Sarah Asspring (aka El Perro del Mar) with collaborator/partner Jacob Haage shaped Born in the River into a distorted hypnotic incantation.
Subheims take on Trees of Peace takes a step back into chilled-out trip-hop, mixed in equal parts with dense cinematic layers of strings and pads, interspersed with crackle-filled pauses, as if catching its breath. Inner Dialogue brings the sumptuous colors of Annas voice to a sun-up pulsing kick rhythm from Drum and Lace, the trip-hop project from renowned Italian composer Sofia Hultquist. Scotland-based English musician Ben Chatwin, sought-after as a composer globally with outings on Village Green, Denovali and others, finds moments of transcendence in a reserved, achingly reflective sojourn Through The Forest. Istanbul-Berlin artist Ah! Kosmos (Basak Gunak) is a perfect foil to The Allegorists expansive, theatrical imagination, expanding Howling with the Wolf to an epic, mainstage musical journey and canyon-scale bass.
In clouds of fuzzy, ligneous strata of timbre, The Invisible blossoms as an invocation, thanks to German composer Hannes Kretzer. Berlin up-and-comer Midori Hirano, with outings recently on raster and appearances from L.E.V. to CTM to Boiler Room, returns to her childhood instrument of the piano in her rework of Dreams at Dawn to create a heart-wrenching rework, evoking a full dramaturgy in this gorgeous track. On The Allegorists voice gets stretched into endless shifting hues by iconic 90s Swedish dark ambient project Desiderii Marginis. A lesser compilation could easily end there, but finally, we are treated to the beguiling, stuttering vocals and undulating crossing rhythms of Barefoot by Scanner. That turns to impactful, edgy electronic beats - making us ready to travel through TEKHENU all over again.
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