Spell Song, by Hazel Cline

Spell Song

by Hazel Cline

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	1.	emergence 01:14
	2.	thlalu 03:44
	3.	enturopid 03:16
	4.	patritu 03:37
	5.	tincuhte 02:15
	6.	voxtul 03:10
	7.	cyclix 03:16
	8.	medthii 03:36
	9.	wrendine 03:34
	10.	unlipi 04:31
	11.	eostre 04:31
	12.	spell song to quiet the storm inside and outside 02:57

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Spell Song is the first album by multimedia artist Hazel Cline, collected from years of recording experiments and ritual practice. Hazel's sound world is a delicately textured one that feels familiar and elemental. She weaves a sonic text that blends quiet voiced mantras in an unknown tongue, birdsong, bottles, bells, wind and breath. Merging field recording, sacred music and experimentation, it's a beautiful work that is hypnotic yet grounding. A true sonic tincture for current times.

"...the first recordings really came from how inspired I felt listening to industrial music and the sound poetry of Kurt Schwitters. I thought it would be amazing if someone combined sound poetry with industrial music. I don't think I even had any kind of official instrument at the time. I am not sure when I got my zither, but that was the first instrument that I purchased for myself. It is probably in some of the later songs. I have always loved birds and was inspired by birdsong for a lot of those early sound poetry pieces..."

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Whether literal or abstract, the imagery of a farm, or specifically that of a barn/stable/shed, is often a grand and pastoral one in atmospheric music (and film; see also Larry Gottheim’s Barn Rushes), a connotation bolstered by the recent surge of “ambient Americana.” But as anyone who’s been inside a ramshackle wooden structure after the sun has begun to go down knows, its interior is often not as romantic as its exterior, instead becoming a space of soggy straw and shadow that seems to whisper your own thoughts back at you. It is here that Hazel Cline sews the seeds of her humble soundscapes on Spell Song: hands rattle forgotten trinkets and ephemera, breeze and breath blow across the chipped rims of glass bottles, soft voice curls in the musty air as both tongues and textures. Apparently “inspired… [by] industrial music and the sound poetry of Kurt Schwitters,” the Atlanta-based multimedia artist’s sublime debut leaves both of those influences in the dust in terms of intrigue and nuance, a distinct sonic dialect all its own growing organically from the humble minimalism of the musical approach. There is an intoxicatingly cryptic essence to these invocations, but not the sort of cryptic that begs to be deciphered—rather, the sort that, instead of simply concealing concrete meaning, abandons it altogether. A nocturnal ritual to some ears, no doubt… perhaps a dusk-swaddled lullaby to others… but to all, a must-listen foray into rural mystique.

-Noise Not Music, August 5, 2023

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released July 28, 2023

sounds and art by Hazel Cline

recorded in Atlanta, GA

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