Gryphon Rue just shared his new single “High Priestess“, in addition to announcing his new LP 4n_Objx.
“‘High Priestess’ is one of my favorite tracks on the record, a trip that blends brazilian percussion, krautrock and experimental electronics into one overgrown wilderness,” says Gryphon Rue.
Texturally complex and rhythmically bold, Gryphon Rue’s enigmatic full-length 4n_Objx is imbued with a sense of the profound. From staggeringly rich drones – woven out of harmoniums and oscillators – to tactile, live percussion and pulsing synths, the ten tracks that comprise 4n_Objx careen, lunge, and leap from cliff to ridge, circuit to synapse.
Rue is a composer, an interdisciplinary artist, and a curator – and this is music built on a fascination with the mimetic potential of sounds, “their ability to suggest biological actions or molecular events,” Rue says. It is music that belies deep thinking, hypersensitivity to processes, to interrelatedness, and movement.
There is a kind of cyberpunk feel here, not in a nostalgic way, but in the way that William Gibson’s early novels interweave the biological and the synthetic as both threatening and undeniably sexy. In fact, Rue says, “I’m attracted to music that interphases acoustic and electronic sources, abstractions of all media which suggest creaturely behavior.” This sort of interphasing may bring to mind the work of a contemporary like Marina Herlop but has perhaps just as much in common with the organic-mechanic push and pull of Seefeel’s Quique.
What do you think of Gryphon Rue’s latest release, “High Priestess”?
