Ekca Liena 'Veiled State' [CD]

HV057 Ekca Liena - Veiled State

Daniel W J Mackenzie produces works of noise, drone and conceptual composition under his given name and the more studio focused project Ekca Liena, and is an active performance collaborator in numerous groups. His artistic studies of sound through installations and academically driven experiments have developed alongside released albums of composed work.

Veiled State is the fourth release in the central album story that forms the backbone of Ekca Liena's sizeable discography. Arriving in the still warm afterglow of 2018's Gravity and Grace - a dark, seismic journey of destructive outbursts and galactic peaks - the album brings about a sense of calm, guiding itself through a series of environments that are at once familiar and otherworldly.

Extended passages of loosely constructed instrumentation elevate the compositions to solar realms, though a distinct root of buried pulses and slowly evolving loops maintains a connection with a solid base. In the sonic recesses, quiet ruminations of delicate improvisations and subtle sound design whisper unidentifiable secrets through the mix. It is the communication between these elements that gives Veiled State a sense of tension, but a sense of life, that shapes the message it relays from an unknown subconscious.

Written, performed and produced by Daniel W J Mackenzie.