Atem was a piece of music that Die Wilde Jagd were commissioned to write and perform at the Roadburn festival in Tilburg in Holland on April 16 2021. Written by Sebastian Lee Phillipp and performed alongside Ran Levari and Lih Qun Wong this is released as a 12" single.
This 45 minute long single opens like you are in the chill out room of a very spacey club waiting for the pills to kick in, as the swirling sounds are joined by a long tone you feel like the waves are crashing in around you.
The long tone develops into sort of Whale sounds with the rushing waters around you almost like your underwater listening to this, eventually some dripping water sounds seem to supersede the long tones momentarily as those tones become a mixture of elongated didgeridoo sounds and the odd bowed cello string.
The stringed elements slowly develop as the track feels ever more mystical as slowly the percussion starts to evolve into almost gun like reports of sound set against the washes and tones decorated by cello runs and interjections to add a sense of bewilderment and dislocation within the aural sonic landscape they have created.
As it builds towards the half hour mark it almost becomes more of a dance piece with a distinctly trance like edge to it as we get to a beguiling cello solo and yet more tonal shifts to keep shaking the room. By the time you get to the last 8 minutes or so and the swirling sounds are building and building you should feel totally spaced out and engulfed by the squelchy drum sounds that are enveloped by the ever present cello that eventually seems to be playing a classical piece alternately with the runs and as it gets more urgent as the piece approaches it's conclusion as if they are trying to reach on final peak.
All of the piece is obviously influenced by La Monte Young's The Theatre Of Eternal Music and John Cage and the fluxus movement as well as later practitioners like Glenn Branca and Jim O'Rourke.
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