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A world in flux, temporal and metaphysical realities questioned, the unit, us and self, entering a new phase. With two EPs of dark, eccentric, discordant, kinetic, raw music the aim is connections conceived. Avidya is experience, seeing the ignorance and understanding in one.

#2 starts with Aphonia, L.A. based producer and sound designer Matia Simovich’s new solo (ad)venture. As part of Inhalt (Dark Entries / [Emotional] Especial) he pushes new wave and dark synth-pop for the future. Exploring rhythmic, long forms of ritual, Burning Fields’ jacking schematics were conceived from and of the severity of the wildfires California now endures.

Industrial, metallic, lo-fi Angels Of Pompeii are a by-product of Montreal’s Italian diaspora – an assemblage of Matt D’Alessio (Temple Records) and Anthony Gallati (Solitary Dancer) – paying homage to the motherland’s electronic pioneers like Kirlian Camera and Victrola. Rough, succinct, and So High.

Moscow’s sons Odopt (Discos Capablanca / Hivern Discs) rising, Grisha and Ivan exploring cavernous, virulent techno, soporific atmospherics and tonality in Athma. Finale, St Petersburg’s Linja (I’m A Cliché / Malka Tuti) offers Retreat, a brooding aura of slo-mo-proto trance to wrap within the first essence of Avidya’s crown.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still love it.