Hiro Kone will return to DAIS Records on September 24th to release the album Silvercoat the throng. A follow-up to 2019’s A Fossil Begins To Bray, it will be the musician’s third effort for the label. Constructed against the backdrop of COVID quarantine, Hiro Kone explains, “Within the darkness and absence is an opportunity for discovery.” Employing experimental techno, spoken word, industrial noise, and neo-classical, Silvercoat the Throng finds the artist collaborating with ONO’s travis, Palestine’s Muqata’a, as well as Speaker Music aka DeForrest Brown Jr.
Today we preview the track “Reciprocal capture,” which features Brown’s techno alias, Speaker Music. Like much of the music of Hiro Kone, the track balances melodic and percussive articulations with roomy ambiance leaving space for reflection and inquiry. Seemingly spontaneous shudders of exhaling tone shiver through the aural space as bass throbs and syncopated percussion ricochet in off-kilter patterns. The effect is like flashes of bio-luminescence in a roiling black ocean, ecstatic out breaths of organ-like tone against the deep darkness of unknown depths.
